Reading Lists

Required Textbook(s) and Reading(s)

I request that you buy a copy of each of the textbooks listed below. You will also be given handouts with some of the texts that are difficult to purchase and I will be posting some readings on Blackboard. 

Bevington, David, ed. Endymion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Print.

Bruce, Susan, ed. Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. Ed. Andrew Gurr and J. R. Mulryne. London: Methuen Drama, 2007. Print.

Lyly, John. Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly. Ed. David Bevington and George K. Hunter. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Print.

Marlowe, Christopher. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Ed. Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. London: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Salzman, Paul, ed. An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Sidney, Philip. Sir Sidney: The Major Works. Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry. Ed. Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott. New York: Norton, 1992. Print.

General reading can be supplemented by the following texts:

Pincombe, Mike. Elizabethan Humanism: Literature and Learning in the Late Sixteenth Century. Harlow: Longman, 2001. Print.

Hopkins, Lisa and Matthew Steggle. Renaissance Literature and Culture. London: Continuum, 2007. Print.

Recommended Reading(s)

I will provide students with more specific recommended readings for each text as it is addressed. These will appear on this page. 

Boas, F.S. (1914) University Drama in the Tudor Age, London: Oxford University Press
- - -   . (ed) (1970) Five Pre-Shakespearean Classics, London OUP

Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. Athenum, New York 1968.
Charney, Maurice. All of Shakespeare. Columbia University Press, New York 1993.
Dramatic Character Plates for Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays, 1775-1776. Facsimile published by Cornmarket Press from the plates in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library, London, 1969.

Farmer, John S. (ed) (1906), The Dramatic Writings of Nicholas Udall, London: Early English Drama Society

Norland, Howard B. (1995) Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558, Lincoln & London, University of Nebraska Press

Reed, A.W. (1926) Early Tudor Drama, London: Methuen

Richardson, C and Johnston, J. (1991) Medieval Drama, London: Macmillan    

Smith, David L., et al, eds. The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre, and Politics in London, 1576-1649. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.