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Authors: Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Harrison, William.
Description of England.
Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968.
Hartley, Dorothy.
Lost Country Life.
New York: Pantheon, 1979.
Hartley, Dorothy, and Margaret M. Elliot.
Life and Work of the People of England. A
Pictorial Record from Contemporary Sources.
The Sixteenth Century. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1926.
Hughes, Paul L., and James F. Larkin.
Tudor Royal Proclamations.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964.
Hurstfield, Joel, and Alan G. R. Smith.
Elizabethan People: State and Society.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1972.
Laslett, Peter.
The World We Have Lost.
London: Methuen, 1971.
McMurtry, Jo.
Understanding Shakespeare’s England. A Companion for the American
Reader.
Hamden, CT: Archon, 1989.
Morril, J., ed.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
O’Day, Rosemary.
The Longman Companion to the Tudor Age.
London and New York: Longman, 1995.
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Palliser, D. M.
The Age of Elizabeth.
London and New York: Longman, 1992.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer.
Who’s Who in Shakespeare’s England.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.
Picard, Liza.
Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London.
New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 2004.
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age. 2 vols.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Sharpe, J. A.
Early Modern England: A Social History 1550–1760.
2nd ed. London and New York: Arnold, 1997.
Smith, Lacey Baldwin. “‘Style Is the Man’: Manners, Dress, Decorum.” In
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Shakespeare: His World, His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World,
ed. John F.
Andrews, 201–14. New York: Scribner, 1985.
Spufford, Margaret.
Contrasting Communities: English Villagers in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Stubbes, Phillip.
Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespeare’s
Youth A.D. 1583,
ed. F. J. Furnivall. New Shakespeare Society 6:6. London: Trübner, 1879.
Thirsk, Joan.
The Agrarian History of England and Wales 1500–1750. Vol. 4: 1500–1640.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Tittler, Robert, and Norman L. Jones.
A Companion to Tudor Britain.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Tusser, Thomas.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Edited by Geoffrey Grig-son. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Wagner, John A.
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999.
Wilson, Sir Thomas.
The State of England, A.D. 1600 [De Republica Anglorum].
Edited by F. J. Fisher. Camden Miscellany 3:52. London: Offices of the Camden Society, 1936.
Wood, Eric S.
Historical Britain.
London: Harvill Press, 1995.
Wrightson, Keith.
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Wrightson, Keith.
English Society, 1580–1680.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
Wrigley, E. A., and R. S. Davies, J. E. Oeppen, and R. S. Schofield.
English Population History from Family Reconstitution, 1580–1837.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Wrigley, E. A. and R. S. Schofield.
The Population History of England 1541–1871.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
JOURNALS, DIARIES, AND TRAVELOGUES
Barrons, C., C. Coleman, and C. Gobbi, eds. “The London Journal of Alessandro Magno 1562.”
The London Journal
9 (1983): 2.
Fenton, Edward, ed.
The Diaries of John Dee.
Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 1998.
Hentzner, Paul.
A Journey into England in the Year 1593.
Translated by R. Bentley and edited by Horace Walpole. Edinburgh: Aungervyle Society, 1881.
Hentzner, Paul.
Paul Hentzner’s Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
London: Edward Jeffery, 1797.
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Hoby, Lady Margaret.
Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599–1605.
Edited by Dorothy M. Meads. London: Routledge, 1930.
Machyn, Henry.
The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London,
from A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563.
Edited by John Gough Nichols. London: Camden Society, 1848.
Moryson, Fynes.
An Itinerary.
Amsterdam and New York: Da Capo Press, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971.
Moryson, Fynes.
Shakespeare’s Europe.
Edited by Charles Hughes. London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1903.
Perrin, W. G., ed.
The Autobiography of Phineas Pett.
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Platter, Thomas.
Thomas Platter’s Travels in England 1599.
Translated by Clare Williams. London: J. Cape, 1937.
Razzell, P., ed.
The Journals of Two Travellers in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England.
London: Caliban Books, 1995.
Rowse, A. L.
Sex and Society in Shakespeare’s Age: Simon Forman the Astrologer.
New York: Scribner, 1974.
Rye, William Brenchley.
England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth and
James the First.
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1967.
PRIMARY-SOURCE ANTHOLOGIES
Aughterson, Kate.
The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents.
London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
Harrison, Molly, and O. M. Royston.
How They Lived: An Anthology of Original
Accounts Written between 1485 and 1700.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.
Houlbrooke, Ralph A.
English Family Life, 1576–1716: An Anthology from Diaries.
Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Manley, Lawrence.
London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology.
London: Croom Helm, 1986.
Orlin, Lena Cowen.
Elizabethan Households: An Anthology.
Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995.
Pritchard, R. E.
Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times.
Stroud: Sutton, 1999.
Swisher, Clarice.
Elizabethan England: Primary Sources.
San Diego: Lucent Books, 2003.
Tawney, R. H., and Eileen Power.
Tudor Economic Documents.
3 vols. London: Longmans, 1924.
Wilson, John Dover.
Life in Shakespeare’s England.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.
POLITICAL HISTORY
Brigden, Susan.
New Worlds, Lost Worlds.
London: Viking, 2000.
Lockyer, Roger.
Tudor and Stuart Britain.
3rd ed. Harlow and New York: Pearson/
Longman, 2005.
Neale, J. E.
Elizabeth I.
London: Folio Society, 2005.
Weir, Alison.
Elizabeth the Queen.
London: Random House, 1998.
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SOCIETY
Barry, Jonathan.
The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader in English Urban History 1530–
1688.
London and New York: Longman, 1990.
Beier, A. L., and Roger Finlay.
London 1500–1700: The Making of the Metropolis.
London and New York: Longman, 1986.
Collinson, Patrick. 1985. “The Church: Religion and Its Manifestations.” In
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Shakespeare: His World, His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World
, ed. John F.
Andrews, 21–40. New York: Scribner, 1985.
Emmison, F. G.
Elizabethan Life: Morals and the Church Courts.
Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1973.
Harrison, William.
Description of England.
Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968.
Houston, R. A.
The Population History of Britain and Ireland, 1500–1750.
Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1992.
Loades, David.
Tudor Government: Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Palliser, D. M.
The Age of Elizabeth.
London and New York: Longman, 1992.
Rappaport, Steve.
Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Sharpe, J. A.
Crime in Early Modern England, 1550–1750.
London and New York: Longman, 1984.
Sharpe, J. A.
Early Modern England: A Social History 1550–1760.
2nd ed. London and New York: Arnold, 1997.
Smith, A.G.R.
The Government of Elizabethan England.
New York: Norton, 1967.
Smith, Sir Thomas.
De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the
Realm of England.
London: Gregory Seton, 1584.
Wrightson, Keith.
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Wrightson, Keith.
English Society 1580–1680.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
HOUSEHOLDS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
Abbott, Mary.
Life Cycles in England 1560–1720: Cradle to Grave.
London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Adair, R.
Courtship, Illegitimacy, and Marriage in England, 1500–1850.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Amussen, Susan.
An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.
Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1988.
Byrne, M. St Clare, ed.
The Elizabethan Home.
London: Methuen, 1949.
Byrne, M. St. Clare.
Elizabethan Life in Town and Country.
London: Methuen, 1950.
Clarkson, L. A.
Death, Disease, and Famine in Pre-Industrial England.
New York: St.
Martins’ Press, 1975.
Cooke, A. J.
Making a Match: Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Cressy, David.
Birth, Marriage, and Death. Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor
and Stuart England.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Cressy, David.
Education in Tudor and Stuart England.
London: Edward Arnold, 1975.