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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.