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Selected Bibliography

  • Andersen J. and Sauer, E. (eds.) (2002) Books and Readers in Early Modern England. Philadelphia, PN: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Anon. (1995) Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays. New York: Dover.
  • Dobson, M. (1994). The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Bate, J. (1993) Shakespeare and Ovid. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Bate, J. (2009) Soul of the Age. London: Penguin.
  • Bate, J. and Rasmussen E. with Sewell, J and Sharpe, W. (eds.) (2013). William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Beadle, R. (2008) (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Braunmuller A.R. and Hattaway, M. (1990) The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Burrow, C. (2004) Shakespeare and the humanist culture. In Martindale, C. and Taylor, A.B. (eds.) Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-27.
  • Burrow, C. (2013) Shakespeare & Classical Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chernaik, W. (2011) The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and His Contemporary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Collins, P. (2009). The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Cressy, D. (1980) Literary and the Social Order: Reading & Writing in Tudor & Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Crystal, D. (2010) Begat. The King James Bible & The English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Danson, L. (2000) Shakespeare’s Dramatic Genres. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • de Grazia, Margreta and Peter Stallybrass, ‘The Materiality of the Shakespearean Text’, Shakespeare Quarterly 44 (1993), pp. 255–83.
  • Eagleton, T. (2008) The rise and fall of the theory. In Walder, D. (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (3rd edition, pp. 824–833). Harlow: Routledge.
  • Edmondson, P. with Wells, S. (2004) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gillspie, S. (2001) Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. London: Athlone Press.
  • Grady, H. (2002). Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Greenblatt, S. (1980) Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Greenblatt, S. (2000) Shakespearean Negotiations. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Greenblatt, S. and Platt, P. (eds.) (2014) Shakespeare’s Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays – A Selection. New York, NY: New York Review Books.
  • Gollancz, I. (2016). A Book of Homage to Shakespeare. (G. McMullan, ed.) (400 Anniversary edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Happe, P. (Ed) (1975) English Mystery Plays. London: Penguin.
  • Hassel, R.C. (2005) Shakespeare’s Religious Language: A Dictionary. London: Continuum.
  • Holinshed, R. and Boswell-Stone, W.G. (1907) Shakespeare’s Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Honigmann, E.A.J. (1959) Shakespeare’s Plutarch. Shakespeare Quarterly, 10(1), pp. 25-33.
  • Jardine, L. (1996) Reading Shakespeare Historically. London: Routledge
  • Kastan, D.S. (2001) Shakespeare and the Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Keilen, S. (2014) Shakespeare and Ovid. In Miller, J.F. and Newlands, C.E. (eds.) A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
  • King J. N (ed.) (2012) Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Leggatt, A. (1999) Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Mark, S. (2000) Shakespeare and the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Martindale, C. and Taylor, A.B. (eds#.) (2004) Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Meyer, E. (1897) Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Drama. Reprint. New York, NY: Burt Franklin.
  • Miola, R. (2000) Shakespeare’s Reading. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Moore, A. (2016) Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Muir, K. (1977, 2005) The Sources of Shakespeare’s Plays. London: Routledge.
  • Murphy, A. (2003) Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Olivier, T. (1980) Shakespeare and Montaigne: a tendency of thought. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 54(May), pp. 43-59.
  • Rasmussen, E. (2011) The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Roe, J. (2002) Shakespeare and Machiavelli. London: D.S. Brewer.
  • Roe, J. (2007) Shakespeare and Machiavelli: The Prince and the history plays. In Vilches, P. and Seaman, G. (eds) Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Leiden & Boston, MA: Brill, pp. 357-388.
  • Scragg, L. (2003) Source Study. In Wells, S. and Orlin, L.C. (eds.) Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp373-389.
  • Shaheen, N. (1999) Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays. Lanham, MD: University of Delaware Press.
  • Sharpe, K and Zwicker, S.N. (eds.) (2003) Reading, Society and Politics in early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 101-121.
  • Smith, E. (2015) The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Oxford: Bodleian Libraries.
  • Smith, E. (2016) Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Taylor, A.B. (2000) Shakespeare’s Ovid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Vernant, J.P. and Vidal-Naquet, P. (1990) Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece. New York: Zone Books.
  • Walker, G. (2000) (ed.) Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Wells, S. and Orlin, L.C. (2003) Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Wells, S. and Taylor, G.(1986) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Werstine, P. (2013) Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Willis, G. (2011) Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
  • Whittock, M. (2009) A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages. London: Robinson.
  • Zerba, M.  (2012) Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Selected Bibliography