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- Axton, Marie,
and Raymond Williams, eds. English Drama, Forms and
Development: Essays in Honour of Muriel Clara
Bradbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1977.
- Benson, Pamela. The
Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female
Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and
England. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1992.
- Booty, John E, ed. The
Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English
Reformation. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
- Booty, John E.. "Godly and
Fruitful Lessons: The English Bible, Erasmus' Paraphrases,
and the Book of Homilies." The Godly Kingdom of Tudor
England: Great Books of the English Reformation. Ed.
John E. Booty. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
- Bradbrook, Muriel C..
Shakespeare, the Poet in His World. London:
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978.
- Briggs, Julia. This
Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background,
1580-1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Buonarroti,
Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An
Annotated Translation. Saslow, James M ed. New Haven,
CT: Yale UP, 1991.
- Burton, E.J.. The Student's
Guide to British Theatre and Drama. London: Herbert
Jenkins Ltd., 1963.
- Clubb, Louise George.
Italian Drama in Shakespeare's Time. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Craig, Hardin. The
Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1966 [1935].
- Crane, W. G. Wit and Rhetoric
in the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1964 [1947].
- Donno, Elizabeth
Story, ed. The Renaissance, Exluding Drama.
London: Macmillan, 1983.
- Doran, Madeleine.
Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan
Drama. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954.
- Duncan-Jones,
Katherine. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
- Ezell, Margaret J. The
Patriarch's Wife: Literature Evidence and the History of
the Family. Chapel Hill and London: The University of
North Caroline Press, 1987.
- Fehrenbach,
R.J., and E.S. Leedham-Green. Private Libraries in
Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor
and Early Stuart Book-Lists. Binghamton, NY: Medieval
& Renaissance Texts & Studies ;, 1992.
- Fraser, Russell. The War
against Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1970.
- Freeman, Rosemary.
English Emblem Books. London: Chatto and Windus,
1848.
- Gaisser, Julia Haig.
Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1993.
- Gascoigne, Bamber.
World Theatre. London: Ebary Press, 1968.
- Gent, Lucy, and
Nigel Llewellyn, eds. Renaissance Bodies: The Human
Figure in English Culture C. 1540-1660. London:
Reaktion Books, 1990.
- Goldberg, J. James I and the
Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and
Their Contemporaries. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1983.
- Greenblatt, Stephen,
ed. Representing the English Renaissance.
Berkeley CA: U of California P, 1991.
- Greg, W. W. A Bibliography of
the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. London:
The Bibliographical Society, 1939-1959. 4 vols.
- Hill, Christopher. A
Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and
Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York:
Routledge, 1991.
- Holbrook, David. Images
of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University
Press, 1989.
- Holden, William P.
Anti-Puritan Satire, 1572-1642. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1954.
- Holzknecht, Karl J..
The Backgrounds of Shakespeare's Plays. New York:
American Book Company, 1950.
- Honigmann, E. A. J.
John Weever: A Biography of a Literature Associate of
Shakespeare and Jonson, Together with a Photographic
Facsimile of Weever's Epigrammes (1599). Manchester,
UK: Manchester University Press, 1987.
- Johnson, Robert C.
Robert Greene 1945-1965; Thomas Lodge 1939-1965; John
Lyly 1939-1965; Thomas Nashe 1941-1965; George Peele
1939-1965 [Bibliographies]. London: Nether Press,
1967.
- Kernodle, George R.
From Art to Theatre: Form and Convention in the
Renaissance. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1944.
- Kernodle, George R.
Invitation to the Theatre. New York: Harcourt
Brace and World, 1967.
- Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of
Love. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1936.
- Lewis, C. S. English
Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 3. Oxford:
The Clarendon Press, 1954.
- Lomax, Marion. Stage Images
and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford. Cambridge:
Cambridge Universtity Press, 1987.
- Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race,
Renaissance Drama. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1989.
- Marder, Louis. His Exits
and His Entrances: The Story of Shakespeare's
Reputation. London: J. Murray, 1963.
- Mason, H. A. Humanism and
Poetry in the Early Tudor Period. London: Routledge
and Paul, 1959.
- McCollum, John I. Jr,
ed. The Age of Elizabeth: Selected Source Materials in
Elizabethan Social and Literature History. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
- McLuskie, Kathleen.
Renaissance Dramatists. Atlantic Highlands, NJ:
Humanities Press International, 1989.
- McMichael,
George, and Edgar M. Glenn. Shakespeare and His
Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy. New
York: Odyssey, 1962.
- Meres, Francis. Francis
Meres' Treatise "Poetrie": A Critical Edition. Ed Don
Cameron Allen. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press,
1933.
- Montaigne, Michel de.
The Essayes of Montaigne: John Florio's
Translation. New York: Modern Library, 1933.
- Orgel, Stephen. The
Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English
Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1975.
- Overbury, Thomas, Sir.
Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse Now First
Collected. Ed Edward F. Rimbault. London: Reeves &
Turner, 1890.
- Ovid, Publius Naso.
Metamorphoses. Trans. Rolfe Humphries.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
- Roston, Murray.
Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual
Arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
- Roston, Murray.
Sixteenth-Century English Literature. London:
Macmillan, 1982.
- Schoenbaum, Samuel.
Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship:
An Essay in Literature History and Method. Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 1966.
- Shakespeare, William.
The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. Ed Sylvan
Barnet. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
[1963].
- Spearing, A. C. Medieval
to Renaissance in English Poetry. London, New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Walker, Daniel. Music,
Spirit and Language in the Renaissance. Ed Penelope
Gouk. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
- Weimann, Robert.
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the
Theater. Ed Robert Schwartz. Baltimore Md.: Johns
Hopkins Press, 1978.
- Whitaker, Virgil K.
Shakespeare's Use of Learning. San Marino, Calif.:
Huntington Library, 1953.
- White, Harold Ogden.
Plagiarism and Imitation During the English
Renaissance. New York: Octagon Books, 1965 [1935].
- Willey, Basil. The
Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of
the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1950.
- Wilson, F. P. Elizabethan
and Jacobean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945.