GENERAL
Melissa D. Aaron, Global economics: a history of the theatre business, the Chamberlain’s Men/ King’s Men and their plays 1599–1642 (Newark, 2005).
Pascale Aebischer, Jacobean drama: a reader’s guide to essential criticism (Basingstoke, 2012).
John H. Astington, Actors and acting in Shakespeare’s time (Cambridge, 2010).
Jonathan Bate, The genius of Shakespeare (London and Basingstoke, 1997).
Jonathan Bate, The soul of the age: the life, mind and world of William Shakespeare (London, 2008).
Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton, Shakespeare: staging the world (London, 2012).
John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan (eds.), A new history of early English drama (New York 1997).
Gregory Doran, The Shakespeare almanac (London, 2009).
Stuart Gillespie, Shakespeare’s books: a dictionary of Shakespeare’s sources (London, 2001).
Frank Kermode, Shakespeare’s Language (London, 2000).
Frederick Kiefer, Shakespeare’s visual theatre: staging the personified characters (Cambridge, 2003).
Charles Nicholl, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street (London, 2008).
James Shapiro, 1599: a year in the life of William Shakespeare (London, 2005).
S. Shoenbaum, William Shakespeare: a documentary life (New York and Oxford, 1987).
Terence G. Schoone-Jongen, Shakespeare’s companies: William Shakespeare’s early career and the acting companies, 1577–1594 (Farnham, 2008).
Tiffany Stern, Documents of performance in early modern England (Cambridge, 2009).
Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’s theatre (London and New York, 1983).
CHAPTER ONE
England Goes Global
Peter Barber, ‘Was Elizabeth I interested in maps?’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14 (2004), 185–98.
J. B. Hartley, ‘Silence and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe’, Imago Mundi 40 (1988), 57–76.
N. J. W. Thrower (ed.), Sir Francis Drake and the famous voyage, 1577–1580 (Berkeley/London, 1984).
Catherine Delano Smith, ‘Map ownership in sixteenth-century Cambridge: the evidence of probate inventories’, Imago Mundi 47 (1995), 67–93.
CHAPTER TWO
Communion and Conscience
Eamon Duffy, ‘Bare ruined choirs: remembering Catholicism in Shakespeare’s England’, in Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson (eds.), Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare (Manchester, 2003), 40–57.
Edgar I. Fripp, Shakespeare’s Stratford (London, 1928).
Steven Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible (Oxford, 2000).
J. R. Mulryne, ‘Professional players in the Guild Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1568–1597’, Shakespeare Survey 60 (2007), 1–22.
Shakespeare’s church: a parish church for the world.
CHAPTER THREE
Snacking Through Shakespeare
Julian Bowsher, Shakespeare’s London theatreland; archaeology, history, Museum of London Archaeology (London, 2012).
Julian Bowsher and Pat Miller, The Rose and the Globe – playhouses of Shakespeare’s Bankside, Southwark: excavations 1988–90, Museum of London Archaeology Monograph 48 (London, 2009).
Joan Fitzpatrick, Food in Shakespeare: early modern dietaries and the plays (Aldershot, 2007).
Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan popular theatre (reprinted Oxford, 2005).
Chris Meads, Banquets set forth: banqueting in English Renaissance literature (Manchester/New York, 2001).
CHAPTER FOUR
Life Without Elizabeth
Margaret Aston, The King’s Bedpost: reformation and iconography in a Tudor group portrait (Cambridge, 1993).
Lisa Hopkins, Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561–1633 (Farnham, 2011).
Lisa Jardine, ‘Gloriana rules! The waves; or, the advantage of being excommunicated (and a woman)’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 14 (2004), 209–22.
P. J. Matthews, ‘Portraits of Philip II as King of England’, Burlington Magazine 142 (2000), 13–19.
Louis Montrose, The subject of Elizabeth: authority, gender and representation (Chicago, 2006).
CHAPTER FIVE
Swordplay and Swagger
Tobias Capwell, The noble art of the sword: fashion and fencing in Renaissance Europe, 1520–1630 (London, 2012).
Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (3rd edition, Cambridge, 2004).
Joan Ozark Holman, ‘“Draw if you be men”: Saviolo’s significance for Romeo and Juliet’, Shakespeare Quarterly 42 (1994), 163–89.
Angus Patterson, Fashion and armour in Renaissance Europe: proud lookes and brave attire (London, 2009).
CHAPTER SIX
Europe: Triumphs of the Past
Patricia A. Cahill, ‘Nation formation and the English history plays’, in Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (eds.), A companion to Shakespeare’s works: the histories (Oxford, 2006), 70–93.
W. H. St John Hope, ‘The funeral monument and chantry chapel of King Henry the Fifth’, Archaeologia 65 (1913), 129–83.
Lisa Monnas, ‘Textiles from the Funerary Achievement of Henry V’, in Jenny Stratford (ed.), The Lancastrian Court, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 13 (Donington, 2003), 125–54.
Brian Walsh, Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men and the Elizabethan performance of history (Cambridge, 2009).
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ireland: Failures in the Present
Paul E. J. Hammer, Elizabeth’s wars (Basingstoke, 2003).
Graham Holderness, ‘“What ish my nation”: Shakespeare and national identities’, in Emma Smith (ed.), Shakespeare’s histories (Oxford, 2004), 225–45.
Willy Maley, ‘The Irish text and subtext of Shakespeare’s histories’, in Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (eds.), A companion to Shakespeare’s works: the histories (Oxford, 2006), 94–124.
Hiram Morgan, ‘“Never any realm worse governed”: Queen Elizabeth and Ireland’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 14 (2004), 295–309.
Andrew Murphy, ‘Shakespeare’s Irish history’, in Emma Smith (ed.), Shakespeare’s histories (Oxford, 2004), 203–24.
Michael Neill, ‘Broken English and broken Irish: nation, language and the optic of power in Shakespeare’s histories’, Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1994), 1–32.
CHAPTER EIGHT
City Life, Urban Strife
James Holstun, ‘Riot and rebellion in Shakespeare’s histories’, in Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (eds.), A Companion to Shakespeare’s works: the histories (Oxford, 2006), 194–219.
Alexander Leggatt, Jacobean public theatre (London and New York, 1992), especially ch. 2 ‘The audiences and their culture’, 28–48.
Charles Whitney, ‘“Usually in the working daies”: playgoing journeymen, apprentices and servants in guild records, 1582–92’, Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999), 433–58.
CHAPTER NINE
New Science, Old Magic
Silke Ackermann and Louise Devoy, ‘“The Lord of the smoking mirror”: objects associated with John Dee in the British Museum’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2011).
Deborah E. Harkness, ‘Shows in the showstones: a theatre of alchemy and apocalypse in the angel conversations of John Dee (1527–1608/9)’, Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996), 707–37.
Glyn Parry, The arch-conjuror of England: John Dee (New Haven and London, 2011).
Keith Sturgess, Jacobean private theatre (London and New York, 1987), especially ch. 5 ‘“A Quaint Device”: The Tempest at the Blackfriars’, 73–96.
Benjamin Wooley, The Queen’s conjuror: the science and magic of Dr Dee (2001).
CHAPTER TEN
Toil and Trouble
Julian Goodare (ed.), The Scottish witchhunt in context (Manchester, 2002).
Anthony Harris, Night’s black agents: witchcraft and magic in seventeenth-century English drama (Manchester, 1980).
Diane Purkiss, ‘Shakes
peare, ghosts and popular folklore’, in Stuart Gillespie and Neil Rhodes (eds.), Shakespeare and Elizabethan popular culture (London, 2006), 136–54.
David Stevenson, Scotland’s last royal wedding: the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark (Edinburgh, 1997).
Keith Thomas, Religion and the decline of magic (Aylesbury, 1971).
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Treason and Plots
Nicholas W. S. Cranfield, ‘George Carleton (1557/8–1628), bishop of Chichester’, Dictionary of National Biography.
David Cressy, ‘The Protestant calendar and the vocabulary of celebration in early modern England’, Journal of British Studies 29 (1990), 31–52.
Carol Z. Wiener, ‘The beleaguered isle: a study of Elizabethan and early Jacobean anti-Catholicism’, Past and Present 51 (1971), 27–62.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Sex and the City
John Drakakis, ‘Shakepeare and Venice’, in Michele Marrapodi (ed.), Italian culture in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Aldershot, 2008), 169–86.
Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice (Farnham, 2010).
Carole Levin and John Watkins, ‘Shakespeare and the decline of the Venetian Republic’, in Shakespeare’s foreign worlds: national and transnational identities in the Elizabethan age (Ithaca and London, 2009), 111–44.
James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews (New York, 1996).
Hugh Tait, The golden age of Venetian glass (London, 1979).
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
From London to Marrakesh
Jack d’Amico, The Moor in English Renaissance drama (Tampa, 1992).
Kim F. Hall, ‘Othello and the problem of blackness’, Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (eds.), A Companion to Shakespeare’s works: the tragedies (Oxford, 2006), 357–92.
Ania Loomba, Shakespeare, race and colonialism (Oxford, 2002).
Nabil Matar, Britain and Barbary, 1589–1689 (Tampa, 2005).
Venetia Porter and Patricia Morison, ‘The Salcombe Bay Treasure’, British Museum Magazine vol. 30 (1998) 16–18.
Daniel J. Vitkus (ed.), Piracy, slavery and redemption: Barbary captivity narratives from early modern England (New York, 2001).
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Disguise and Deception
Adam Fox, ‘News and popular political opinion in Elizabethan and early Stuart England’, Historical Journal 40 (1997), 597–620.
Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson (eds.), Region, religion and patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare (Manchester, 2003).
Lisa McClain, ‘Without church, cathedral or shrine: the search for religious space among Catholics in England, 1559–1625’, Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002), 381–99.
Margaret Spufford, ‘The pedlar, the historian and the folklorist: seventeenth-century communications’, Folklore 105 (1994), 13–24.
William Collins Watterson, ‘Shakespeare’s confidence man’, Sewanee Review 101 (1993), 536–48.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Flag That Failed
D. Baker and W. Maley (eds.), British identities and English Renaissance literature (Cambridge, 2002).
Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer and Jason Lawrence (eds.), The accession of James I (Basingstoke, 2006).
Bruce Galloway, The union of England and Scotland 1603–1608 (Edinburgh, 1986).
W. Maley, ‘“This sceptred isle”: Shakespeare and the British problem’, in J. J. Joughin (ed.), Shakespeare and national culture (Manchester, 1997), 83–108.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
A Time of Change, a Change of Time
Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift, Shaping the day: a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300–1800 (Oxford, 2009).
Ronald Pollitt, ‘“Refuge of the Distressed Nations”: perceptions of aliens in Elizabethan England’, Journal of Modern History 52 (1980), D1001–D1019.
Irwin Smith, ‘Dramatic time versus clock time in Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Quarterly 20 (1969), 65–9.
David Thompson, Clocks (London, 2004).
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Plague and Playhouse
John H. Astington, English court theatre 1558–1642 (Cambridge, 1999).
Leeds Barroll, Politics, plague and Shakespeare’s theatre: the Stuart years (Ithaca and London, 1991).
F. P. Wilson, The plague in Shakespeare’s London (Oxford, 1927).
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
London Becomes Rome
Paul Dean, ‘Tudor humanism and the Roman past: a background to Shakespeare’, Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988), 84–111.
C. Martindale and A. B. Taylor (eds.), Shakespeare and the classics (Cambridge, 2004).
David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington (eds.), The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London 1576–1649 (Cambridge, 1995).
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The Theatres of Cruelty
Thomas Cooper, ‘Edward Oldcorne (1561–1606), Jesuit’, Dictionary of National Biography.
Gillian Murray Kendall, ‘Overkill in Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Quarterly 43 (1992), 33–50.
Alexandra Walsham, ‘Miracles and the Counter-Reformation mission to England’, Historical Journal 46 (2003), 779–815.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Shakespeare Goes Global
Douglas Lanier, Shakespeare and modern culture (Oxford, 2002).
Robert Shaughnessy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and popular culture (Cambridge, 2007).
Nigel Wheale, Writing and society: literacy, print and politics in Britain 1590–1660 (London and New York, 1999).
References
CHAPTER ONE
England Goes Global
‘We the globe can compass soon…’: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 4.1.96–7.
‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth…’: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2.1.175–6.
‘And the 26 of September we safely with joyful minds…’: Francis Fletcher’s account, reproduced in The World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted; carefully collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher (London, 1628).
‘She is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her…’: The Comedy of Errors, 3.2.120–47.
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation (London, 1589). And the later edition: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600).
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) and the provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their rivers, adjoining (1596).
‘Here’s another letter to her; she bears the purse, too…’: Merry Wives of Windsor 1.3.62–7.
Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570).
CHAPTER TWO
Communion and Conscience
‘Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine…’: Hamlet, 5.2.276–86.
‘Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang’: Sonnet 73.
‘I am thy father’s spirit…’: Hamlet, 1.5.9–13.
‘Grief fills the room up of my absent child…’: King John, 3.4.93–7.
‘Give him the cup…’: Hamlet, 5.2.277.
CHAPTER THREE
Snacking Through Shakespeare
‘On September 21st after lunch…’: Thomas Platter, Platter’s Travels in England (1599); cited in Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, Sources and debates in English history, 1485–1714 (John Wiley, 2009), p. 98.
‘a place…onely for the Nobilitie’: Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion: or, Nine Books of Various History concerning Women (1624).
‘My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain potatoes…’: Merry Wives of Windsor, 5.5.18–21.
CHAPTER FOUR
Life Without Elizabeth
‘And here I prophesy: this brawl today…’: Henry VI, 2.4.124–30.
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‘We will unite the white rose and the red…’: Richard III, 5.5.19–34.
‘Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose…’: Henry IV, Part 2, 3.1.26–31.
Peter Wentworth, A Pithy Exhortation to Her Majesty for Establishing Her Successor to the Crown (1598).
‘Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord…’: Richard III, 5.5.35–42.
CHAPTER FIVE
Swordplay and Swagger
‘Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up…’: Romeo and Juliet, 3.1.82–91.
‘That’s meat and drink to me, now…’: Merry Wives of Windsor, 1.1.274–9.
‘He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance…’: Romeo and Juliet, 2.4.20–26.
‘The King, sir, hath wager’d with him six Barbary horses…’: Hamlet, 5.2.145–50.
‘Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath…’: Romeo and Juliet, 3.1.86–7.
‘that men might butcher one another here at home in peace’: George Silver, Paradoxes of Defence (1599).
‘carry two daggers or two rapiers in a sheath always about them…’: Holinshed’s Chronicles or The first and second volumes of Chronicles comprising 1 The description and history of England, 2 The description and history of Ireland, 3 The description and history of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others (1587), vol. 1, p. 199.
‘None shall wear spurs, swords, rapiers, daggers…’: Royal proclamation enforcing a range of sumptuary-law statutes, published in Paul F. Hughes and James F. Larkin, Tudor royal proclamations (3 vols., New Haven, 1964, 1969), no. 601.
‘That had his hand continuall on his dagger’: Dedication to ‘The Gentleman Reader’ in Samuel Rowlands, The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine with a new Morissco (1600), page A2.
‘Now to let you understand the news, I will tell you some…’: J. Payne Collier (ed.), Henslowe and Alleyn: being the diary of Philip Henslowe and the life of Edward Alleyn (London, 1853), vol. 2, p. 51.
CHAPTER SIX
Europe: Triumphs of the Past
‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…: Henry V, 3.1.1–2.
‘In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man…’: Henry V, 3.1.3–8.
‘For he today that sheds his blood with me…’: Henry V, 4.3.60–64.
‘I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips…’: Henry V, 3.1.31–4.
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