Shakespeare and his contemporaries / by Nicholl, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Biographies -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- Francis Beaumonth (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) -- Actors -- The Sidney Circle -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) -- Sir John Harington (1562-1612) -- Maids of Honour -- Pamphleteers -- Travel Writers -- Scientists -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1554-1618) -- Patrons.…”

Shakespeare and the drama of his time / by Wiggins, Martin

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A strange banquet: or, The devil's entertainment by Cook Laurel, at the Peak in Derby-shire; : with an account of the several dishes served to table. To the tune of, Cook Laurel, &... by Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

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The ghost of Richard the Third : expressing himselfe in these three parts, [brace] 1. His character, 2. His legend, 3. His tragedie : containing more of him then hath been heretofo... by Brooke, Christopher, d. 1628

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The bloody brother : A tragedy. By B.J.F. by Fletcher, John, 1579-1625

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Satiro--mastix. Or The vntrussing of the humorous poet : As it hath bin presented publikely, by the Right Honorable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants; and priuately, by the Child... by Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632

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A description of love. : with certaine epigrams., elegies, and sonnets., and also Mast: Iohnsons answere to Master Withers. : With the Crie of Ludgate, and the Song of the begger.

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Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric /

Table of Contents: “…The face of the sonnet: Wyatt and some early features of the tradition / Peter Sacks -- Sidney and the sestina / Anthony Hecht -- Naked numbers: a curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh -- Ben Jonson and the loathe̿d word / Linda Gregerson -- Donne's sovereignty / Calvin Bedient -- Anomaly, conundrum, Thy-will-be-done: on the poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips -- Milton in the modern: the invention of personality / William Logan -- Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland -- Unordinary passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle / Alice Fulton -- "How coy a figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser -- Saint John the rake: Rochester's poetry / Thom Gunn -- Edward Taylor: what was he up to? …”
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Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric /

Table of Contents: “…The face of the sonnet: Wyatt and some early features of the tradition / Peter Sacks -- Sidney and the sestina / Anthony Hecht -- Naked numbers: a curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh -- Ben Jonson and the loathèd word / Linda Gregerson -- Donne's sovereignty / Calvin Bedient -- Anomaly, conundrum, Thy-will-be-done: on the poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips -- Milton in the modern: the invention of personality / William Logan -- Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland -- Unordinary passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle / Alice Fulton -- "How coy a figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser -- Saint John the rake: Rochester's poetry / Thom Gunn -- Edward Taylor: what was he up to? …”
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The book of the play : playwrights, stationers, and readers in early modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : plays, books, and the public sphere / Marta Straznicky -- Renaissance play-readers, ordinary and extraordinary / Cyndia Susan Clegg -- Reading printed comedy : Edward Sharpham's The fleer / Lucy Munro -- Reading through the body : women and printed drama / Marta Straznicky -- Closet drama and the case of Tyrannicall-government anatomized / Elizabeth Sauer -- Typographic nostalgia : play-reading, popularity, and the meanings of black letter / Zachary Lesser -- Play-reading, news-reading, and Ben Jonson's The staple of news / Alan B. Farmer -- Genres, early modern theatrical title pages, and the authority of print / Peter Berek -- The masque in/as print / Lauren Shohet -- Inky kin : reading in the age of Gutenberg paternity / Douglas A. …”
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Masques, mayings and music-dramas : Vaughan Williams and the early twentieth-century stage / by Savage, Roger, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Books to make a traveller of thee: pilgrims, vagabonds and the monodramas of Vaughan Williams -- A quarry for profitable working: staging the masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912 -- The edens of Reginald Buckley: temples and tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury -- 'One of the greatest composers' the world has ever seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell Revival -- 'What about an English ballet?' …”
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The Shakespeare circle : an alternative biography /

Table of Contents: “…Living with the Mountjoys David Kathman; 15. Ben Jonson David Riggs; 16. Richard Barnfield, John Weever, William Basse, and other encomiasts Andrew Hadfield; 17. …”
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The prelude to poetry; the English poets in defence and praise of their art. by Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946

Table of Contents: “…--Samuel Daniel: A defence of ryme.--Ben Jonson: Poets and poetry.--John Milton: A school of poetry.…”

Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / by Wills, Garry, 1934-

The epigram in England, 1590-1640 / by Doelman, James, 1963-

The mind of the book : pictorial title pages / by Fowler, Alastair

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Historical setting ; Borders ; Architectural structures ; Portratis ; Printers' devices ; Emblems ; Chronograms ; Compartments ; Later history -- Frontispieces and commentaries : Geffray Chaucer, The Workes (1532) ; The Great Bible (1539) ; John Dee, General and Rare Memorials (1577) ; John Harington, Orlando furioso (1591) ; Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622) ; Ben Jonson, The Workes (1616) ; Francis Bacon, Instauratio magna (1620) ; Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648) ; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) ; Francis Barlow, Aesop's Fables (1666) ; Edward Sherburne, The Sphere of M. …”

English comic writers by Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830

Table of Contents: “…Lecture I: Introductory - On Wit and Humour -- Lecture II: On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson -- Lecture III: On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, etc. -- Lecture IV: On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar -- Lecture V: On the Periodicals Essayists - Lecture VI: On the English Novelists -- Lecture VII: On the Comic Writers of the Last Century -- Fugitive writings. …”

Staging Ben : a collection of essays on the theatricality of Jonson's plays /

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The historie of the world : in five bookes / by Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618

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