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Bibliography

Here you can explore our project publications, as well as finding a list of past publications relevant to our research.

Project Publications

  • Callan Davies, Andy Kesson, Lucy Munro “London Theatrical Culture, 1560-1590.” ( Oxford Research Encyclopedia 2021 )
  • Davies, Callan “What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620 ” ( London: Routledge 2023 )
  • Davies, Callan “Bowling Alleys and Playhouses in London, 1560-90” ( Early Theatre 22.2 2019 ) : 39-65
  • Davies, Callan “The Woolfes of Wine Street: Middling Culture and Community, 1600-1620” ( English Historical Review 137.585 2022 )
  • Davies, Callan and Kesson, Andy “Digital Humanities and non-Shakespearean theatre history” ( The Shakespeare Newsletter 2018 )
  • Kesson, Andy. Special Issue of Shakespeare Studies 45 (2017) “Playhouses, Plays, and Theater History: Rethinking the 1580s” ( Shakespeare Studies Special Issue 45 2017 )
  • Kesson, Andy “Early playhouse reprints and revivals, in Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama” ( ed. Harry Newman and Eoin Price Cambridge UP )
  • Kesson, Andy “‘Rethinking the Early Years of the London Playhouses: An Essay in Chronology’, in he Arden Research Handbook to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries ” ( ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Tom Rutter Arden 2022 )
  • Kesson, Andy “'Before/ After', in Shakespeare/ Text” ( ed. Claire Bourne Arden )
  • Kesson, Andy “'Fellow dramatists and early collaborators' in The Shakespeare Circle” ( ed. Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells Cambridge UP 2016 )
  • Kesson, Andy “'"They that tread in a maze": movement as emotion in John Lyly's prose', in The Renaissance of Emotion” ( ed. Rachel Meek and Erin Sullivan Manchester UP 2015 )
  • Kesson, Andy “'Was comedy a genre in early modern English drama?', in British Journal of Aesthetics” ( spec. issue on genre 2014 )

Wider Reading

  • Alexander, Gavin “Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2006 )
  • Altman, Joel B. “The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and The Development of Elizabethan Drama ” ( University of California 1978 )
  • Archer, Ian W. “The City of London and the theatre, in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre” ( ed. Dutton, Richard Oxford: Oxford UP 2009 )
  • Astington, John H. “English Court Theatre 1558-1642” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 )
  • Austen, Gillian “George Gascoigne” ( Cambridge: DS Brewer 2008 )
  • Axton, Marie, and Raymond Williams (ed). “English Drama: Forms and Development” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1977 )
  • Barish, Jonas “The Antitheatrical Prejudice ” ( Berkeley: U of California P 1981 )
  • Bartels, Emily and Emma Smith (ed). “Christopher Marlowe in Context” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2015 )
  • Berry, Herbert (ed). “Bartels, Emily and Emma Smith” ( Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP 1979 )
  • Bevington, David “From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth and Structure in the Popular Drama in Tudor England” ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1962 )
  • Bowsher, Julian “The Rose Theatre: An Archaeological Discovery” ( London: Museum of London 1998 )
  • Bruster, Douglas “Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare ” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1992 )
  • Cartwright, Kent “Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 )
  • Cerasano, S. P. “The dream of a perfect history” ( Renaissance Drama: What is Renaissance Drama? 40 2012 ) : 47-56
  • Dutton, Richard (ed). “The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre ” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2009 )
  • Cerasano, S. P. “'Theatre entrepreneurs and theatre economics', in Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre” ( ed. Dutton, Richard Oxford: Oxford UP 2009 )
  • Chambers, E. K. “The Elizabethan Stage” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 4 vols 1945 )
  • Clark, Peter “The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830” ( London: Longman 1985 )
  • Cox, John D., and David Scott-Kastan (ed). “A New History of Early English Drama” ( New York: Columbia UP 1997 )
  • Das, Nandini “Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620” ( Farnham: Ashgate 2011 )
  • Dessen, Alan “Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1984 )
  • Dessen, Alan “'Recovering Elizabethan staging: a reconsideration of the evidence', in Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence ” ( ed. Edward Pechter Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1996 )
  • Dessen, Alan “Recovering Shakespeare’s Theatrical Vocabulary ” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1995 )
  • Dillon, Janette “The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2006 )
  • Erler, Mary C. “REED: Ecclesiastical London” ( Toronto: Toronto UP 2008 )
  • Erne, Lukas “Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd” ( Manchester: Manchester UP 2001 )
  • Fox, Adam “Oral and Literature Culture in England 1500-1700” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2000 )
  • Gair, Reavley “The Children of Paul's: The Story of a Theatre Company, 1553-1608” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1982 )
  • Gieskes, Edward “Representing the Professions: Administration, Law and Theater in Early Modern England” ( Newark: U of Delaware P 2006 )
  • Greenfield, John “Reconstructing the Rose: Development of the Playhouse Building Between 1578 and 1592” ( Shakespeare Survey 60 2007 ) : 23-35
  • Goldberg, Jonathan “Exclusive of:” ( Renaissance Drama: What is Renaissance Drama? 40 2012 ) : 9-17
  • Gurr, Andrew “The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2009 )
  • John Guy (ed). “The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1995 )
  • Hill, Janet “Stages and Playgoers: From Guild Plays to Shakespeare” ( London: McGill-Queens UP 2002 )
  • Hill, Tracey “Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Lord Mayor's Shows, 1585-1639” ( Manchester: Manchester UP 2010 )
  • Hirrel, Michael “'Thomas Watson, playwright: origins of modern drama', in Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England” ( ed. David McInnis and Matthew Steggle Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014 2014 )
  • David McInnis and Matthew Steggle (ed). “Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England” ( Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014 2014 )
  • Hodgdon, Barbara, and W. B. Worthen “Renaissance and/or early modern drama and/or theater and/or performance: a dialogue” ( Renaissance Drama: What is Renaissance Drama? 40 2012 ) : 19-28
  • Höfele, Andreas “Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2011 )
  • Ingram, William “The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of Adult Professinoal Theater in Elizabethan London” ( London: Cornell UP 1992 )
  • Johnson, Laurie “Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts” ( London: Routledge 2017 )
  • Kathman, David “'Inn-yard playhouses', in Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre” ( ed. Dutton, Richard Oxford: Oxford UP 2009 )
  • Dutton, Richard “'London inns as playing places for the Queen's Men', in Locating the Queen's Men” ( ed. Ostovich, Helen, Holger Schott-Syme, and Andrew Griffin Farnham: Ashgate 2009 )
  • Ostovich, Helen, Holger Schott-Syme, and Andrew Griffin (ed). “Locating the Queen's Men” ( Farnham: Ashgate 2009 )
  • Kermode, Lloyd, Jason Scott-Warren, and Martine van Elk (ed). “Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1490-1590” ( Basingstoke: Macmillan 2004 )
  • Kesson, Andy “'Fellow dramatists and early collaborators', in The Shakespeare Circle” ( ed. Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2016 )
  • Kesson, Andy “It is a pity you are not a woman: John Lyly and the creation of women” ( Shakespeare Bulletin 33.1 2015 ) : 33-47
  • Kesson, Andy “John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship” ( Manchester: Manchester UP 2014 )
  • Kesson, Andy “Was Comedy a genre in early modern English drama?” ( British Journal of Aesthetics 54.2 2014 ) : 213-25
  • Knutson, Roslyn “Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2001 )
  • Lancashire, Anne “London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2002 )
  • Lanier, Sidney “Shakespeare and his Forerunners” ( New York: Doubleday 1902 )
  • Leacroft, Richard “The Development of the English Playhouse” ( London: Methuen 1973 )
  • Leggatt, Alexander, J. Leeds Barroll, Richard Hosley, and Alvin Kernan (ed). “Revels History of Drama in English, III: 1576-1613” ( London: Methuen 1975 )
  • Lopez, Jeremy “Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2014 )
  • Lopez, Jeremy “Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2003 )
  • Low, Jennifer A., and Nova Myhill (ed). “Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama” ( New York: Palgrave 2011 )
  • Manley, Lawrence “Why did London inns function as theatres?” ( Huntington Library Quarterly 71.1 2008 ) : 181-97
  • Manley, Lawrence, and Sally-Beth MacLean “Lord Strange's Men and their Plays” ( London: Yale UP 2014 )
  • McCarthy, Jeanne “'The Queen's 'unfledged minion's: an alternate account of the origins of the Blackfriars and of the boy company phenomenon', in Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage” ( ed. Paul Menzer Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP 2006 )
  • McMillin, Scott and Sally-Beth MacLean “The Queen's Men and their Plays” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1998 )
  • Melnikoff, Kirk “Jones's pen and Marlowe's socks: Richard Jones, print culture and the beginnings of English dramatic literature” ( Studies in Philology 102 2005 ) : 184-209
  • Melnikoff, Kirk, and Edward Gieskes (ed). “Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England's First Notorious Professional Writer” ( Aldershot: Ashgate 2008 )
  • Melnikoff, Kirk, and Edward Gieskes “'A Note Beyond your reach': prose romance's rivalry with Elizabethan drama', in Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance and Shakespeare” ( ed. Lamb, Mary Ellen and Valerie Wayne London: Routledge 2009 )
  • Munro, Lucy “Early Modern Drama and the Repertory Approach” ( Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 42 2003 ) : 1-33
  • Nelson, Alan H. and John R. Elliott Jr “REED: Inns of Court” ( Cambridge: DS Brewer 2010 )
  • Newcomb, Lori Humphrey “Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England” ( New York: Columbia UP 2002 )
  • Orrell, John “The Human Stage: English Tehatre Design 1567-1640” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2002 )
  • Rhodes, Neil “'Shakespeare's popularity and the origins of the canon', in The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England” ( ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith Farnham: Ashgate 2013 )
  • Richardson, Catherine “Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England; The Material Life of the Household” ( Manchester: Manchester UP 2006 )
  • Rutter, Carol Chillington (ed). “Documents of the Rose Playhouse” ( Manchester: Manchester UP 1999 )
  • Saccio, Peter “The Court Comedies of John Lyly: A Study in Allegorical Dramaturgy” ( Princeton: Princeton UP 1969 )
  • Scott-Warren, Jason “When theatres were bear-gardens; or, what's at stake in The Comedy of Humours” ( Shakespeare Quarterly 54 2003 ) : 63-82
  • Scragg, Leah “The Metamorphosis of 'Gallathea': A Study in Creative Adaptation” ( Washington D. C.: UP of America 1982 )
  • Shrank, Cathy “Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2004 )
  • Smith, Bruce “The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor” ( Chicago: Chicago UP 1999 )
  • Smith, David L., Richard Strier, and David Bevington “The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatrea nd Politics in London, 1576-1649” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1995 )
  • Somerset, Alan “'Some new thoughts on an old question: 'professional' touring theater outside London before 1590', in Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare” ( ed. Kermode, Lloyd, Jason Scott-Warren, and Martine van Elk Basingstoke: Macmillan 2004 )
  • Southern, Richard “The Staging of Plays Before Shakespeare” ( London: Faber 1973 )
  • Stern, Tiffany “Renaissance Drama: future-directions” ( Renaissance Drama: What is Renaissance Drama? 2012 ) : 151-60
  • Templeman, Sally “'What's this? Mutton?' Food, bodies, and performance spaces in early Shakespearean drama” ( Shakespeare Bulletin 31.1 2013 ) : 79-94
  • Turner, Henry S. “The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Politics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2006 )
  • Turner, Henry S. “Towards a new theatricality?” ( Renaissance Drama: What is Renaissance Drama? 2012 ) : 29-35
  • Weimann, Robert “Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function” ( ed. Robert Schwartz Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1978 1978 )
  • White, Paul Whitfield “Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2008 )
  • White, Paul Whitfield “Playing Companies and the Drama of the 1580s: A New Direction for Elizabethan Theatre History?” ( Shakespeare Studies 28 2000 ) : 265-84
  • Wickham, Glynne, Herbert Berry and William Ingram (ed). “English Professional Theatre: 1530-1660” ( Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2000 )
  • Wickham, Glynne, Herbert Berry and William Ingram “Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2000 )
  • Wiggins, Martin, with Catherine Richardson “British Drama, 1533-1642: A catalogue” ( Oxford: Oxford UP 2012 )