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- Armin, Robert. The
        Collected Works of Robert Armin. Ed J. P Feather. New
        York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972.
      
- Beckerman, Bernard.
        Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609. London:
        Collier-Macmillan, 1962.
      
- Bentley, Gerald E. The
        Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time,
        1590-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
        1971.
      
- Bentley, Gerald E. The
        Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642.
        Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
      
- Bradbrook, M.C. The Rise
        of the Common Player: A Study of Actor and Society in
        Shakespeare's England. London: Chatto & Windus,
        1962.
      
- Callaghan, Dympna.
        Shakespeare without Women: Representing Gender and Race
        on the Renaissance Stage. London; New York: Routledge,
        2000.
      
- Chambers, E.K.. The
        Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4
        vols.
      
- Davies, Robertson.
        Shakespeare's Boy Actors. New York: Russell &
        Russell, 1964.
      
- Day, Barry. This Wooden 'O',
        Shakespeare's Globe Reborn, the Official Story, with a
        Foreword by Sir John Gielgud. London: Oberon Books,
        1996.
      
- Dessen, Alan
        C. , and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage
        Directions in English Drama 1580-1642. Cambridge:
        Cambridge UP, 1999.
      
- Gibson, Joy Leslie.
        Squeaking Cleopatras: The Elizabethan Boy Player.
        Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.
      
- Grebanier, Bernard D.
        N.. Then Came Each Actor: Shakespearean Actors,
        Great and Otherwise, Including Players and Princes, Rogues,
        Vagabonds and Actors Motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and
        Gielgud and After. New York: McKay, 1975.
      
- Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in
        Shakespeare's London. Cambridge: Cambridge University
        Press, 1987.
      
- Gurr, Andrew. The
        Shakespearean Playing Companies. Oxford: Oxford
        University Press, 1996.
      
- Hillebrand, Harold
        Newcomb. The Child Actors. New York: Russell
        & Russell, 1964.
      
- Holmes, Martin
        Rivington. Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of
        Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His
        Principal Player. London: Phillimore, 1978.
      
- Hudson, Katherine. The
        Story of the Elizabethan Boy-Actors. London: Oxford
        University Press, 1971.
      
- Joseph, B. L. Elizabethan
        Acting. London: Oxford University Press, 1964 [1951].
      
- Joseph, Bertram Leon.
        The Tragic Actor. London: Routledge & Paul,
        1959.
      
- Kempe, William. A Dutiful
        Invective against the Treasons of Ballard and
        Babington. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971.
      
- King, Thomas J. Casting
        Shakespeare's Plays: London Actors and Their Roles
        1590-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
      
- Mann, David. The Elizabethan
        Player: Contemporary Stage Representation. London:
        Routledge, 1991.
      
- Murray, John Tucker.
        English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. New York:
        Russell and Russell, 1963 [1910]. 2 vols.
      
- Nungezer, Edwin. A
        Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with
        the Public Representation of Plays in England before
        1642.. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 [1929].
      
- Orgel, Stephen.
        Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in
        Shakespeare's England. Cambridge: Cambridge University
        Press, 1996.
      
- Shapiro, Michael.
        Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of
        Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays. New York: Columbia
        University Press, 1977.
      
- Stopes, Charlotte
        Carmichael. Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage.
        New York: Haskell House, 1970.
      
- Thomson, Peter.
        Shakespeare's Professional Career. Cambridge:
        Cambridge University Press, 1992.
      
- Wallace, Charles
        William. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars
        1597-1603. New York: AMS Press, 1970 [1908].
      
- Wiles, David. Shakespeare's
        Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse.
        Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.