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- André, le
        Chapelain. The Art of Courtly Love. Trans.
        John Jay Parry. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1959.
      
- Anglo, Sydney, ed. Chivalry
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- Archer, John Michael.
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- Ashelford, Jane. The
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- Astington, John H..
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- Berry, Edward I.
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- Billington, Sandra.
        Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance
        Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
      
- Boase, Roger. The Origin and
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        1977.
      
- Boffey, Julia. Manuscripts
        of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle
        Ages. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985.
      
- Butler, Martin. "Early Stuart
        Court Culture: Compliment or Criticism?" The History
        Journal 32 (1989): 425-35.
      
- Castiglione,
        Baldessare. The Courtier. Trans. Sir Thomas
        Hoby. London: Dent, 1928.
      
- Dillon, Janette. Theatre,
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        London. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University
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- Edelman, Charles. Brawl
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- Ferguson, Arthur B..
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        London; Toronto: Associated UP, 1986.
      
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        Ferrante, Joan M., George D. Economou, and Frederick
        Goldin, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love
        in Medieval Literature. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat
        Press, 1975.
      
- Fienberg, Nona. Elizabeth,
        Her Poets, and the Creation of the Courtly Manner: A Study
        of Sir John Harington, Sir Philip Sydney, and John
        Lyly. New York: Garland, 1988.
      
- Fumerton, Patricia.
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        Practice of Social Ornament. Chicago: University of
        Chicago Press, 1991.
      
- Giles, Edward B. The Art
        of Cutting and History of English Costume. Lopez
        Island, Washington: R.L. Shep, 1987.
      
- Guy, J. A., ed.. The
        Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last
        Decade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
      
- Holderness, Graham.
        Shakespeare, out of Court: Dramatizations of Court
        Society. London: Macmillan, 1990.
      
- Hurstfield, Joel.
        Freedom, Corruption and Government in Elizabethan
        England. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.
      
- Jaeger, C. Stephen.
        The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the
        Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210. Philadelphia:
        University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
      
- Javitch, Daniel. Poetry
        and Courtliness in Renaissance England. Princeton, NJ:
        Princeton Unversity Press, 1978.
      
- Kahn Blumstein,
        Andree. Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly
        Romance. Bonn: Herbert Grundmann, 1977.
      
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
        Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer. Ithaca,
        NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
      
- Laroque, Francois.
        Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal
        Entertainment and the Professional Stage. Trans. Janet
        Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
      
- Leonard, Frances
        McNeely. Laughter in the Courts of Love: Comedy in
        Allegory, from Chaucer to Spenser. Norman, Okla:
        Pilgrim Books, 1981.
      
- Lerer, Seth. Courtly Letters
        in the Age of Henry Viii: Literature Culture and the Arts
        of Deceit. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
      
- Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of
        Love. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1936.
      
- Loades, D. M.. The Tudor
        Court. London: Batsford, 1986.
      
- Meader, William
        Granville. Courtship in Shakespeare: Its Relation
        to the Tradition of Courtly Love. New York: King's
        Crown Press, Columbia University, 1954.
      
- Mingay, George E.. The
        Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class. London:
        Longman, 1976.
      
- Morgan, Gwendolyn A.,
        ed.. Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance, and
        Everyday Life: A Critical Anthology. New York: Peter
        Lang, 1996.
      
- Mott, Lewis F.. System of
        Courtly Love. New York: Haskell House, 1965.
      
- Neale, J.E.. Essays in
        Elizabethan History. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.
      
- Nelson, John Charles.
        Renaissance Theory of Love: The Context of Giordano's
        "Eroici Fuori". New York: Columbia University Press,
        1958.
      
- Newman, F. X., ed. The
        Meaning of Courtly Love. Albany NY: State University
        of New York Press, 1968.
      
- Nicoll, Allardyce, ed.
        The Elizabethans. Cambridge: Cambridge University
        Press, 1957.
      
- O'Donoghue, Bernard.
        The Courtly Love Tradition. Manchester: Manchester
        University Press, 1982.
      
- O'Gorman, Gerald, ed,
        ed. Marcus Tillius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties, to
        Marcus His Sonne, Turned Oute of Latine into English, by
        Nicolas Grimalde. By Marcus Tillius Cicero. Trans. Nicholas
        Grimald. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990.
      
- Owen, Douglas D. R.
        Noble Lovers. London: Phaidon, 1975.
      
- Rougemont, Denis. Love
        in the Western World. Trans. Montgomery Belgion.
        Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
      
- Schmidgall, Gary.
        Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic. Berkeley:
        University of California Press, 1981.
      
- Sheavyn, Phoebe Anne.
        The Literature Profession in the Elizabethan Age.
        2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967.
      
- Smith,
        Nathaniel B., and Joseph T. Snow, eds. The
        Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature.
        Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
      
- Streitberger, W. R.
        Court Revels, 1485-1559. Toronto: University of
        Toronto Press, 1994.
      
- Welsford, Enid. The Fool:
        His Social and Literature History. London: Faber and
        Faber, 1935.
      
- Whigham, Frank.. Ambition
        and Privilege: The Social Tropes of Elizabethan Courtesy
        Theory. Berkeley: University of California Press,
        1984.
      
- Woodhouse, John
        Robert. Baldesar Castiglione: A Reassessment of the
        Courtier. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
      
- Young, Alan. Tudor and
        Jacobean Tournaments. London: George Philip, 1987.