H-ALBION: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century History Play: Bibliography

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century History Play: A Working Bibliography

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Bill Godshalk is allowing me to repost this working bibliography from Ficino. If you have any suggestions for additions, please post them to Bill. I am sure he will appreciate them and give us an updated bibliography later.

Brady, Oberman, and Tracy, Handbook of European History, 1400-1600 (Brill, 1994-95)

Baker, Herschel. The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1967.

Berry, Edward I. Patterns of Decay: Shakespeare's Early Histories. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1975.

Blanpied, John. Time and the Artist in Shakespeare's English Histories. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1983.

Boris, Edna Z. Shakespeare's English Kings, the People, and the Law: A Study in the Relationship between the Tudor Constitution and the English History Play. Cranbury, NJ: Associated U Presses, 1974.

Bromley, John. The Shakespearean Kings. Boulder: Colorado Associated P, 1971.

Burke, Peter. The Renaissance Sense of the Past. London: Edward Arnold, 1969.

Campbell, Lilly Bess. Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. San Marino: Huntington, 1947

Cochrane, Eric. Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1981.

Dessen, Alan C. Shakespeare and the Late Moral Plays. Licoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986. Richard III, 1 Henry IV, and 2 Henry IV. PR 2933.M65 D47 1986

Dick, Hugh. "Thomas Blundeville's The true order and Methode of wryting and reading Hystories," Huntington Library Quarterly 3 (1940)

Ferguson, A. B. Clio Unbound

Ferguson, A. B. Utter Antiquity

Fussner

Gransden, Antonia. Medieval historiography, vol. 2

Green, Louis. Chronicle into History.

Hall, Edward. The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (1548) Rpt. London, 1809, and after.

Hay, Dennis. Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Centuries. London: Methuen, 1977.

Hay, Dennis. Biography of Polydore Vergil

Holinshed, Raphael. Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) Rpt. 6 vols. London, 1807.

Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1592-1600).

Huppert, George. The Idea of Perfect History.

Ianziti, Gary. "Humanism's New Science: The History of the Future," I Tatti Studies 4 (1991): 59-88.

Kastan, David Scott. "Proud Majesty Made a Subject," SQ 1987??

Kelley, Donald. Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship.

Kelley, Donald. Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enligtenment.

Kelly, Henry A. Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1970.

Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays. London: Routledge, 1988.

Levine, Joseph. Essays

Levy, F. J. Tudor Historiography

Lindenberger, Herbert. Historical Drama: The Relation of Literature and Reality. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1975.

Manheim, Michael. The Weak King Dilemma in the Shakespearean History Play. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1973.

McKisack, May. Medieval History in the Tudor Age. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.

Mendyk, Stan. Speculum Britanniae.

Norbrook, David. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. London: Routledge, 1984.

Ornstein, Robert. A Kingdom for a Stage: The Achievement of Shakespeare's History Plays. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972.

Palmer, John. Political Characters of Shakespeare. London, 1948.

Patterson, Annabel. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1994.

Phillips, Mark. Francesco Guicciardini, and the Tradition of Vernacular Historiography in Florence.

Phillips, Mark. "Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the Tradition of Historiography in Florence." AHR 84 (1979): 86-105.

Pierce, Robert B. Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971.

Piggott, Stuart. Ruins in a Landscape.

Pocock, J. G. A. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987)

Prior, Moody E. The Drama of Power: Studies in Shakespeare's History Plays. Evaston: Northwestern UP, 1973.

Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

Reed, Robert Rentoul, Jr. Crime and God's Judgement in Shakespeare. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1984. History plays and tragedies. PR 3017.R43 1984

Reese, M. M. The Cease of Majesty: A Study of Shakespeare's History Plays. London: Edward Arnold, 1961.

Ribner, Irving. The History Play in the Age of Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.

Richmond, H. M. Shakespeare's Political Plays. New York: Random House, 1967.

Riggs, David. Shakespeare's Heroical Histories: Henry VI and Its Literary Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971.

Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare's History Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1989.

Struever, Nancy. The Language of History in the Renaissance.

Struever, Nancy. Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance.

Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture

Tillyard, E. M. W. Shakespeare's History Plays. New York, 1946.

Traversi, Derek. Shakespeare: From Richard II to Henry V. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1957.

Weiss, Roberto. The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity.

Wikander, Matthew H. The Play of Truth and State: Historical Drama from Shakespeare to Brecht. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins P, 1986.

Wilcox, Donald. The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century.

Wilcox, Donald. The Measure of Times Past.

Woolf, D. R. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. Toronto, 1990.

Wright, Louis B. Elizabethan Middle Class Culture

History Plays, other than Shakespeare's

Alarum for London (1602)

Captain Thomas Stukeley, ed. Judith C. Levinson. Malone Society Reprint. 1975

Drue, Thomas. The Duchess of Suffolk. STC 7242. 1631

Edmund Ironside, ed. Eleanore Boswell. Malone Society Reprints. 1928

Edward III. Tudor Facsimile Texts. 1910

Ford, John. Parkin Warbeck.

Greene, Robert. James IV

Heywood, Thomas. 1 and 2 Edward IV (1599)

Jack Straw (1593)

Locrine (1595)

Marlowe, Christopher. Edward II (1594)

Munday, Anthony. The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. ed. John C. Meagher. Malone Society Reprints. 1967.

Munday, Anthony. The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. ed, John C. Meagher. Malone Society Reprints. 1965.

Munday, Anthony. Sir Thomas More. ed. Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori. Revels. 1990.

Peele, George. Edward I. (1594)

The Second Part of the Troublesome Reign of John, King of England. Tudor Facsimile Texts. 1911

Sir John Oldcastle (1600)

Thomas Lord Cromwell (1602)

The True Tragedy of Richard III. ed. W. W. Greg. Malone Society Reprints. 1929.

Woodstock (1 Richard II). ed. Wilhelmina P. Frijlinck. Malone Society Reprints. 1929.

     W. L. Godshalk                                                          
     University of Cincinnati                                             
     Department of  English                                              
     godshawl@ucbeh.san.uc.edu

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