BooksWhere applicable, entries are followed by their Short-Title Catalogue number as given in Pollard, A. W. and Redgrave, G. R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640, 2nd edn, rev. Jackson, W. A., Ferguson, F. S. and Pantzer, Katharine F., 2 vols. (London: Bibliographical Society, 1986). For works published before 1700, the place of publication is London unless otherwise stated.
Aers, David, Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).
Agnew, Jean-Christophe, Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Aquinas, Thomas, Summa theologica, trans. the Fathers of the English Dominican Provinces, 22 vols. (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, [1921?]–1934).
Arab, Ronda A., ‘Work, Bodies and Gender in The Shoemaker's Holiday’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 13 (2000), pp. 182–212.
Aristotle, , Metaphysics, x–xiv, Oeconomica, Magna Moralia, trans. Tredennick, Hugh and Armstrong, G. Cyril, Aristotle in Twenty-Three Volumes, 18 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935, repr. 1990).
Ashley, Maurice, England in the Seventeenth Century, 3rd edn (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961).
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Bacon, Francis, The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, ed. Kiernan, Michael(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985).
Baines, Barbara J., Thomas Heywood (Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1984).
Barber, C. L., Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and its Relation to Social Custom (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959).
Barckley, Richard, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man; or, His Summum bonum (1598) STC 1381.
Barish, Jonas A., The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1981).
Barroll, J. Leeds, ‘Shakespeare and the Second Blackfriars Theatre’, Shakespeare Studies 33 (2005), pp. 156–70.
Barry, Jonathan, and Brooks, Christopher (eds.), The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550–1800 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994).
Barton, Anne (as Anne Righter), Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (London: Chatto & Windus, 1962).
Beaumont, Francis, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, ed. Hattaway, Michael (London: Ernest Benn; New York: W. W. Norton, 1969).
Beckerman, Bernard, Shakespeare at the Globe: 1599–1609 (New York: Macmillan, 1962).
Becon, Thomas, The Worckes of Thomas Becon, 3 vols. (1564) STC 1710.
Bednarz, James P., ‘When did Shakespeare Write the Choruses of Henry V ?’, Notes and Queries 53 (2006), pp. 486–9.
Beier, A. L., Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560–1640 (London: Methuen, 1985).
Bentley, Gerald Eades, The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time 1590–1642 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Berry, Edward, Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Berry, Herbert, ‘The First Public Playhouses, Especially the Red Lion’, Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989), pp. 133–48.
Berry, Herbert‘Brayne, John (c. 1541–1586)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), available online at www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68128, accessed 21 June 2007.
Berry, Lloyd E. (ed.), The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).
Bevington, David M., From ‘Mankind’ to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962).
Bevington, David M.Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968).
Bliss, Lee, Francis Beaumont (Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1987).
Bliss, Lee‘The Renaissance Griselda: A Woman for All Seasons’, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1992), pp. 301–43.
Bolton, Edmund, The Cities Advocate, in this Case or Qvestion of Honor and Armes; Whether Apprentiship Extinguisheth Gentry? (1629) STC 3219.
Bradbrook, M. C., The Rise of the Common Player: A Study of Actor and Society in Shakespeare's England (London: Chatto & Windus, 1962).
Bradshaw, Brendan, ‘Transalpine Humanism’, in Burns, J. H. and Goldie, Mark(eds.), The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 95–131.
Bristol, Michael D, Carnival and Theater: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England (New York: Methuen, 1985).
Brome, Richard, The Antipodes, ed. Haaker, Ann (London: Edward Arnold, 1967).
Bronfman, Judith, ‘Griselda, Renaissance Woman’, in Haselkorn, Anne M. and Travitsky, Betty S. (eds.), The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990), pp. 211–23.
Brooks, Christopher, ‘Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort, 1550–1800’, in Barry, Jonathan and Brooks, Christopher (eds.), The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550–1800 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), pp. 52–83.
B(rowne), , J(ohn), , The Marchants Avizo (1591) STC 3908.5.
Bruster, Douglas, Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Bruster, Douglas‘Local Tempest: Shakespeare and the Work of the Early Modern Playhouse’, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 25 (1995), pp. 33–53.
Bull, Malcolm, The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art (London: Allen Lane, 2005).
(Bullinger, Heinrich), The Christen State of Matrimonye, trans. Coverdale, Miles(Antwerp, 1541) STC 4045.
Burke, Peter, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, rev. edn (Aldershot: Scolar Press; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1994).
Burnett, Mark Thornton, Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997).
Burns, J. H., and Goldie, Mark (eds.), The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Faulkner, Thomas C., Kiessling, Nicolas K. and , Rhonda L. Blair, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989–2000).
Cahn, Susan, Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500–1660 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
Campbell, Oscar James, Comicall Satyre and Shakespeare's ‘Troilus and Cressida’ (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library Publications, 1938).
Carson, Neil, A Companion to Henslowe's Diary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Baldassare, Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier from the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione: Done into English by Sir Thomas Hoby Anno 1561, ed. Henley, W. E. (London: David Nutt, 1900).
Richard, Cave, Schafer, Elizabeth and Woolland, Brian (eds.), Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory (London: Routledge, 1999).
Cerasano, S. P., ‘Henslowe, Philip (c. 1555–1616)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), available online at www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12991, accessed 21 June 2007.
Chambers, E. K., The Elizabethan Stage, 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923).
Chambers, E. K. and Greg, W. W. (eds.), ‘Dramatic Records from the Lansdowne Manuscripts’, Malone Society Collections, i.2 (Oxford: Malone Society, 1908).
Chambers, E. K.(eds.), ‘Dramatic Records of the City of London: The Remembrancia’, in Malone Society Collections, i.1 (Oxford: Malone Society, 1907).
Champion, Larry S., ‘Dramatic Strategy and Political Ideology in The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell’, Studies in English Literature 29 (1989), pp. 218–36
Chapman, Alison A., ‘Whose Saint Crispin's Day Is It? Shoemaking, Holiday Making, and the Politics of Memory in Early Modern England’, Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001), pp. 1467–94.
Lindsey, Charles, and Duffin, Lorna (eds.), Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England (Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1985).
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De officiis, trans. Miller, Walter (London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1913; repr. 1938).
Cicero, Marcus TulliusMarcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties, to Marcus his Sonne, Turned oute of Latine into English, by Nicolas Grimalde, ed. O'Gorman, Gerald (Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library; London: Associated University Presses, 1990).
Clark, Alice, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, 3rd edn (London: Routledge, 1992).
Clay, C. G. A., Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500–1700, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Clopper, Lawrence M. (ed.), Records of Early English Drama: Chester (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Manchester University Press, 1979).
Cohen, Walter, Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985).
Cohen, Walter‘Political Criticism of Shakespeare’, in Howard, Jean E. and O'Connor, Marion F. (eds.), Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (New York: Routledge, 1987), pp. 18–46.
Coleman, D. C., The Economy of England, 1450–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
Cook, Ann Jennalie, The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare's London, 1576–1642 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981).
Cooper, Lisa H., ‘Chivalry, Commerce, and Conquest: Heywood's The Four Prentices of London’, in Perry, Curtis (ed.), Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepolis, 2001), pp. 159–75.
Cotta, John, A Short Discoverie of the Vnobserved Dangers of Seuerall Sorts of Ignorant and Vnconsiderate Practisers of Physicke in England (1612) STC 5833.
Cox, John D. and Kastan, David Scott (eds.), A New History of Early English Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Cressy, David, Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989).
Crupi, Charles W., ‘Ideological Contradictions in Part I of Heywood's Edward IV: “Our Musicke Runs … Much upon Discords” ’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 7 (1995), pp. 224–56.
Daffin, Chris, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: An Analysis of Historical Data, 1998–2003 (Office of National Statistics, 2004).
Davies, John, of Hereford, Microcosmos: The Discovery of the Little World, With the Government Thereof (Oxford, 1603) STC 6333.
Dean, James M. (ed.), Medieval English Political Writings, (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996).
De Bruyn, Lucy, Mob-Rule and Riots: The Present Mirrored in the Past (London: Regency Press, 1981).
De Grazia, Margreta, ‘World Pictures, Modern Periods, and the Early Stage’, in Cox, John D. and Kastan, David Scott (eds.), A New History of Early English Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 7–21.
Dekker, Thomas, The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, ed. Bowers, Fredson, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953–61).
Dekker, ThomasThomas Dekker, ed. Pendry, E. D. (London: Edward Arnold, 1967).
Dekker, ThomasThe Shoemaker's Holiday, ed. Smallwood, R. L. and Wells, Stanley (Manchester: Manchester University Press; Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
Deloney, Thomas, The Novels of Thomas Deloney, ed. Lawlis, Merritt E. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1961).
Digges, Thomas and Digges, Dudley, Four Paradoxes; or, Politique Discourses (1604) STC 6872.
Dod, John and Cleaver, Robert, A Godlie Forme of Hovseholde Government: For the Ordering of Private Families, According to the Direction of Gods Word (1612) STC 5386.
Dollimore, Jonathan, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984).
Duby, Georges, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, trans. Goldhammer, Arthur (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Dudley, Edmund, The Tree of Commonwealth, ed. Brodie, D. M. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948).
Duncan-Jones, Katherine, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001).
Dutton, Richard, ‘Hamlet, An Apology for Actors, and the Sign of the Globe’ Shakespeare Survey 41 (1988), pp. 35–43.
Dutton, RichardMastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991).
Dutton, Richard and Howard, Jean E. (eds.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003).
E(dgar), , T(homas), (ed.), The Lawes Resolvtions of Womens Rights; or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen (1632) STC 7437.
Eliot, T. S., Elizabethan Essays (London: Faber & Faber, 1934).
Elizabeth, I, Collected Works, ed. Marcus, Leah S., Mueller, Janel and Beth Rose, Mary (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Elyot, Thomas, The Boke Named the Gouernour, ed. Stephen Croft, Henry Herbert, 2 vols. (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880).
Engle, Lars, Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of his Time (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
Erickson, Amy Louise, Women and Property in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 1993).
Erne, Lukas, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Eutheo, Anglo-Phile and Salvianus, , A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters (1580) STC 21677.
Farley-Hills, David, Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600–1606 (London: Routledge, 1990).
Farmer, David, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, 4th edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Ferne, John, The Blazon of Gentrie (1586) STC 10824.
Foakes, R. A. (ed.), Henslowe's Diary, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Forker, Charles R., and Candido, Joseph, ‘Wit, Wisdom, and Theatricality in The Book of Sir Thomas More’, Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980), pp. 85–104.
Fraser, Russell, The War Against Poetry (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970).
Frye, Susan and Robertson, Karen (eds.), Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Fulbecke, William, A Direction or Preparatiue to the Study of the Lawe (1600) STC 11410.
Fumerton, Patricia, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Gair, Reavley, The Children of Paul's: The Story of a Theatre Company, 1553–1608 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Galloway, David (ed.), The Elizabethan Theatre III (London: Macmillan, 1973).
Galloway, David(ed.), Records of Early English Drama: Norwich, 1540–1642 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984).
Gardiner, Harold C., Mysteries' End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Religious Stage (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946).
Gibbons, Brian, Jacobean City Comedy, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1980).
Goldberg, Jonathan, ‘Hamlet's Hand’, Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988), pp. 307–27.
Gosson, Stephen, The Schoole of Abuse: Conteining a Plesaunt Inuectiue Against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Iesters, and Such Like Caterpillers of a Commonwelth (1579) STC 12097.5.
Gosson, StephenPlayes Confuted in Fiue Actions (1582) STC 12095.
Gosson, StephenMarkets of Bawdrie: The Dramatic Criticism of Stephen Gosson, ed. Kinney, Arthur F. (Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1974).
Grassby, Richard, ‘Social Mobility and Business Enterprise in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Pennington, Donald and Thomas, Keith (eds.), Puritans and Revolutionaries: Essays in Seventeenth-Century History Presented to Christopher Hill (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 355–81.
Greenblatt, Stephen, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1988).
Greenfield, Peter H., ‘Touring’, in Cox, John D. and Kastan, David Scott (eds.), A New History of Early English Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 251–68.
Greg, W. W. (ed.), The Book of Sir Thomas More, 2nd edn (Oxford: Malone Society, 1961).
Griffiths, Paul, Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England 1560–1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
Grint, Keith, The Sociology of Work: An Introduction, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998).
Gurr, Andrew, ‘Money or Audiences: The Impact of Shakespeare's Globe’, Theatre Notebook 42 (1988), pp. 3–14.
Gurr, AndrewPlaygoing in Shakespeare's London, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Gurr, AndrewThe Shakespearian Playing Companies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
Gurr, Andrew‘Who Is Lovewit? What Is He?’, in Cave, Richard, Schafer, Elizabeth and Woolland, Brian (eds.), Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 5–19.
Gurr, AndrewThe Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Halkett, Samuel and Laing, John, A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publications in the English Language, 3rd edn, rev. Horden, John (Harlow: Longman, 1980).
Hall, Edward, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (1548) STC 12721.
Hall, Richard H., with contributions by Buttram, Robert T., Sociology of Work: Perspectives, Analyses, and Issues (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 1994).
Harbage, Alfred, Annals of English Drama, 975–1700: An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, &c., rev. Schoenbaum, S. (London: Methuen, 1964).
Harbage, AlfredShakespeare and the Rival Traditions (New York: Macmillan, 1952).
Harington, John, Nugae Antiquae: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers in Prose and Verse, ed. Harington, Henry, 2 vols. (London: W. Frederick, 1769–75).
Harman, Thomas, A Caveat or Warening, for Commen Cvrsetors Vvlgarely Called Vagabones (1567) STC 12787.
Harrison, William, The Description of England, ed. Edelen, Georges (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968).
Hart, Alfred, Shakespeare and the Homilies and Other Pieces of Research into the Elizabethan Drama (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1934).
Haselkorn, Anne M., and Travitsky, Betty S. (eds.), The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990).
Hawkes, David, ‘Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in the Antitheatrical Controversy’, Studies in English Literature 39 (1998–9), pp. 255–73.
Helgerson, Richard, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Henderson, Diana E., ‘Many Mansions: Reconstructing A Woman Killed with Kindness’, Studies in English Literature 26 (1996), pp. 277–94.
Heywood, Thomas, Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women; Inscribed by the Names of the Nine Muses (1624) STC 13326.
Heywood, ThomasIf You Know Not Me You Know Nobody Part II, ed. Doran, Madeleine (Oxford: Malone Society, 1935).
Heywood, ThomasThe Four Prentices of London: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition, ed. Weber Gasior, Mary Ann (New York: Garland, 1980).
Heywood, ThomasA Woman Killed with Kindness, ed. Scobie, Brian (London: A & C Black; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985, repr. 1991).
Hill, Christopher, Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (London: Secker & Warburg, 1964).
Hill, ChristopherReformation to Industrial Revolution, 2nd edn (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969).
Hill, ChristopherChange and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century England (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974).
Hill, ChristopherMilton and the English Revolution (London: Faber & Faber, 1977).
Hill, Tracey, Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London, 1580–1633 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
Holbrook, Peter, Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1994).
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Howard, Jean E., The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 1994).
Howard, Jean E. and O'Connor, Marion F. (eds.), Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (New York: Routledge, 1987).
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Humphrey, Laurence, The Nobles; or, Of Nobilitye: The Original Nature, Dutyes, Right, and Christian Institucion Thereof (1563) STC 13964.
Hunt, Maurice, Shakespeare's Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (New York: Peter Lang, 1995).
Hutson, Lorna, The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 1994).
Ingram, R. W. (ed.), Records of Early English Drama: Coventry, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981).
Ingram, William, The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theater in Elizabethan London (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Jack, Sybil M., Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977).
James, Mervyn, Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Jankowski, Theodora A., ‘Historicizing and Legitimating Capitalism: Thomas Heywood's Edward IV and If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 7 (1995), pp. 305–37.
Jankowski, Theodora A.‘The Development of Middle-Class Identity and the “Problem” of the “Gentle” Apprentice’, in Sauer, Michelle M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Minot, ND: Minot State University Printing Services, 2003), pp. 1–17.
Jewell, John, An Exposition upon the Two Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul to the Thessalonians, ed. Hall, Peter (London: B. Wertheim, 1841).
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Kaplan, Joel H., ‘Virtue's Holiday: Thomas Dekker and Simon Eyre’, Renaissance Drama, n.s., 2 (1969), 103–22.
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Knights, L. C., Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson (London: Methuen, 1937; repr. 1977).
Knowles, Ronald (ed.), Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).
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Latimer, Hugh, The Works of Hugh Latimer, ed. Corrie, George Elwes, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1844–5).
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Le Goff, Jacques, Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages, trans. Goldhammer, Arthur (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1980)
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Leinwand, Theodore B., The City Staged: Jacobean City Comedy, 1603–1613 (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
Leinwand, Theodore B.Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
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