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  1. Ashley, Leonard R. N. Elizabethan Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.
  2. Badawi, M. M.. Background to Shakespeare. London: Macmillan, 1981.
  3. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  4. Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
  5. Bonfield, Lloyd, Richard Smith, and Keith Wrightson, eds. The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure. New York, NY: B. Blackwell, 1986.
  6. Boulding, Elise. The Underside of History: A View of Women through Time. Boulder: Westview Press, 1976.
  7. Brathwait, Richard. A Critical Edition of Richard Brathwait's Whimzies. Ed Richard Allen H. Lanner. New York: Garland, 1991.
  8. Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. London: Gay Men's Press, 1995 (1982).
  9. Briggs, Asa. A Social History of England. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
  10. Burnett, John. A History of the Cost of Living. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1969.
  11. Camden, Charles Carroll. The Elizabethan Woman. London: Cleavery-Hume, 1952.
  12. Cerasano, S.P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
  13. Chamberlin, E. R. Everyday Life in Renaissance Times. London: B. T. Batsford, G. P. Putnam, 1965.
  14. Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
  15. Clark, Alice. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Harcourt Brace and Rowe, 1920.
  16. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
  17. Clark, Peter. "The Alehouse and the Alternative Society." Puritans and Revolutionaries: Essays in Seventeenth-Century History. Ed. Donald Pennington and Keith Thomas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 47-72.
  18. Coleman, D.C. The Economy of England, 1450-1750. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.
  19. Coleman, Donald C. Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Macmillan, 1975.
  20. Corbin, Peter, and Douglas Sedge. "Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays." 1986.
  21. Coward, Barry. Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England, 1550-1750. London: Longman, 1988.
  22. Davys, John. The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator. Ed Albert Hastings Markham. London: Hakluyt Society, 1880.
  23. Denvir, Bernard. From the Middle Ages to the Stuarts: Art, Design, and Society, before 1689. London: Longman, 1988.
  24. Dodd, A H. Life in Elizabethan England. London: B T Batsford, 1961.
  25. Fumerton, Patricia, and Simon Hunt. Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
  26. Graves, Michael R, and Robin H Silcock. Revolution, Reaction and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History, 1558-1700. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul Ltd., 1984.
  27. Greaves, Richard L. Society and Religion in Elizabethan England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
  28. Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  29. Greg, W. W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1939-1959. 4 vols.
  30. Harrison, William. The Description of England. Ed Georges Edelen. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968.
  31. Hay, Denys, ed. The Age of the Renaissance. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986 [1967].
  32. Hill, Christopher. Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England. London: Secker and Warburg, 1964.
  33. Hogrefe, Pearl. Tudor Women: Commoners and Queens. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
  34. Hogrefe, Pearl. Women of Action in Tudor England. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
  35. Holbrook, David. Images of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
  36. Humes, James C. Citizen Shakespeare: A Social and Political Portrait. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
  37. Hussey, Maurice. The World of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Visual Approach. London: Heinemann Educations Books Ltd., 1971.
  38. Jack, Sybil M. Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
  39. James, Mervyn. Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
  40. Jeanneret, Michel. A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance. Trans. Jeremy Whiteley and Emma Hughes. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1991.
  41. LaMar, Virginia A. Travel and Roads in England.. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1960.
  42. Langmuir, Gavin I. History, Religion, and Antisemitism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  43. Laroque, Francois. Shakespeare's Festive World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
  44. Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen, 1971 [1965].
  45. Levin, Carole, and Karen Robertson, eds. Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press, 1991.
  46. Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
  47. MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth Century England. Trans. RC438/M27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  48. Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife. Ed Michael R Best. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.
  49. Martines, Lauro. Society and History in English Renaissance Verse. London: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
  50. McCollum, John I. Jr, ed. The Age of Elizabeth: Selected Source Materials in Elizabethan Social and Literature History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
  51. McFarlane, K.B.. England in the Fifteenth Century. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
  52. Musek, Rosemary. "Women in an Age of Transition, 1485-1714." The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present. Ed. Barbara Kanner. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979.
  53. Neaman, Judith S. Suggestion of the Devil: The Origins of Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
  54. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. The Elizabethans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.
  55. Nicoll, Allardyce. Shakespeare in His Own Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  56. Notestein, Wallace. "The English Woman, 1580-1650." Studies in Social History. Ed. J. H. Plumb. London: Longmans Green, 1955.
  57. Noyes, Gertrude E. Bibliogaphy of Courtesy and Conduct Books in Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., 1937.
  58. Onions, C.T, ed. Shakespeare's England. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917.
  59. Palliser, D.M. The Age of Elizabeth: England under the Later Tudors, 1547-1603. London: Longman, 1983.
  60. Pennington, Donald, and Keith Thomas, eds. Puritans and Revolutionaries: Essays in Seventeenth-Century History Presented to Christopher Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
  61. Rappaport, Steve. Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  62. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
  63. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Renaissance Drama as Cultural History: Essays from Renaissance Drama 1977-1987. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1990.
  64. Ross, James Bruce, and Mary Martin McLauglin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977 [1949].
  65. Rowse, A. L. The Elizabethan Renaissance. London: Macmillan, 1971-1972. 2 vols. vols.
  66. Rowse, A.L.. Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974.
  67. Rye, William B.. England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth and James the First. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1967 [1865].
  68. Sachs, Hannelore. The Renaissance Woman. Ed D. T. Rice. Trans. Marianne Herzfield. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
  69. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare: The Globe and the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
  70. Scott, A. F. Witch, Spirit, Devil. London: White Lion, 1974.
  71. Sinsheimer, Hermann, 1883-1950. Shylock: The History of a Character, or, the Myth of the Jew. London: V. Gollancz, 1947.
  72. Sizemore, Christine W. "Early Seventeenth-Century Advice Books: The Female Viewpoint." South Atlantic Bulletin 41 (1976): 41-8.
  73. Slack, Paul. From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
  74. Smith, Lacey Baldwin. The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World. Ed Norman Kotker. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1967.
  75. Springer, Marlene. "The Changing Image of Woman in Renaissance Society and Literature." What Manner of Woman. Ed. Marlene Springer. New York: New York University Press, 1977.
  76. Stannard, David E. The Puritan Way of Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  77. Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.
  78. Thirsk, Joan, ed. The Agrarian History of England and Wales. 8 vols. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967-2000.
  79. Thompson, John Lee. John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries. Geneve, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1992.
  80. Tilly, Louise A, and Joan W Scott. Women, Work, and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
  81. Trevelyan, G.M.. English Social History. New York: Longman Group, 1978 [1944].
  82. Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. The Age of Expansion: Europe and the World 1559-1660. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.
  83. Warnicke, Retha M. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983.
  84. Wilson, John Dover. Life in Shakespeare's England. London: Penguin Books, 1949 [1913].
  85. Wrightson, Keith. English Society 1580-1680. London: Hutchison, 1982.
  86. Wrightson, Keith David Levine. Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700. New York: Academic Press, 1979.