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  1. Axton, Marie, and Raymond Williams, eds. English Drama, Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of Muriel Clara Bradbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  2. Bergeron, David Moore. Twentieth-Century Criticism of English Masques, Pageants, and Entertainments: 1558-1642. San Antonio, Tex: Trinity University Press, 1972.
  3. Bodin, Jean. On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1995.
  4. Bradbrook, Muriel C. The School of Night: A Study in the Literature Relationships of Sir Walter Raleigh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936.
  5. Briggs, K. M. The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959.
  6. Briggs, K. M. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
  7. Briggs, K. M. Pale Hecate's Team: An Examination of the Beliefs on Witchcraft and Magic among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and His Immediate Successors. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.
  8. Butler, Eliza M. The Myth of the Magus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948.
  9. Chambers, E. K. The English Folk-Play. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1933.
  10. Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
  11. Dyer, Rev. T. F. Folklore of Shakespeare. London: Griften and Farran, 1883.
  12. Edwards, Gillian. Hobgoblins & Sweet Puck. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1974.
  13. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1973.
  14. Evans, Joan. Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Particularly in England. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
  15. French, Peter J. John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
  16. Grillot de Givry, émile A. Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. Trans. J. C Locke. Chicago: University Books, 1931.
  17. Helm, Alex. The English Mummers' Play. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Folklore Society, 1981.
  18. Heniger, S. K. Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics. San Marino, CA: Huntinton Library, 1974.
  19. Herbert, T. Walter. Oberon's Mazed World: A Judicious Young Elizabethan Contemplates "a Midsummer Night's Dream," with a Mind Shaped by the Learning of Christendom Modified by the New Naturalist Philosophy and Excited by the Vision of a Rich, Powerful England. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1977.
  20. Johnson, Jeffrey. The Theology of John Donne. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 1999.
  21. Latham, Minor. The Elizabethan Fairies. New York: Octagon Books, 1972 [1930].
  22. Michel, Paul Henry. The Cosmology of Giordano Bruno. Trans. R. E. W. Maddison. Paris and London: Hermann and Methuen, 1973 (1962).
  23. Philip C. Kolin, ed. Shakespeare and Folklore. Hattiesburg, Miss: Mississippi Folklore Society, 1976.
  24. Reed, Robert R. The Occult on the Tudor and Stuart Stage. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1965.
  25. Shumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1972.
  26. Shumaker, Wayne. Renaissance Curiosa: John Dee's Conversations with Angels, Girolamo Cardano's Horoscope of Christ, Johannes Trithemius and Cryptography, George Dalgarno's Universal Language. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1982.
  27. Singer, Charles. From Magic to Science. New York: Dover Publications, 1958 [1928].
  28. Thomas, Keith V. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
  29. Vickers, Brian, ed. Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  30. Walker, Daniel P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic, from Ficino to Campanella. London: Warburg Institute, 1958.
  31. West, Robert H. The Invisible World: A Study of Pneumatology in Elizabethan Drama. New York: Octagon Books, 1969 [1939].
  32. Weyer, Johann. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991.
  33. Yates, Frances A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964.
  34. Yates, Francis A.. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.