The Theatrical City (Advanced Options) (Semester 1 Or 2)

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Advanced option for English Literature, available through modules ENGL6002 or ENGL6004

234 items

Plays - to buy or borrow from the Library (16 items) Before the semester starts, please try to read the following primary texts which we will study (in more or less this order)

The Shoemakers’ Holiday - Thomas Dekker Chapter

Eastward Ho - Thomas George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston Chapter

Every Man in His Humour - Ben Jonson Chapter

Henry IV, part 1 - William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington, 2008, c1987 Book | Essential | eBook version of different edition available (see below)

King Henry IV, the First Part - William Shakespeare, 2016 Book | eBook version

Measure for measure - William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons, 2006 Book | Essential | eBook versions of different editions available (see below)

Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare, 2000 Book | eBook version

Oxford Shakespeare: Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt, 1991 Book | eBook version

The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton Chapter | Essential | eBook version of different edition available (see below)

The Roaring Girl (1611) - Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker Chapter | eBook version

Epicene, or The silent woman - Ben Jonson, Richard Dutton, 2008 Book | eBook version of different edition available (see below)

Epicene, or The silent woman (1609) - Ben Jonson Chapter | eBook version

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Thomas Middleton Chapter | Essential

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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Thomas Middleton Chapter

The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Francis Beaumont Chapter | eBook version of different edition available (see below)

The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) - Francis Beaumont Chapter | eBook version

General secondary reading (16 items)

A century of revolution 1603-1714 - Christopher Hill, 1991 Book

The lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street - Charles Nicholl, 2008 Book

The politics and poetics of transgression - Peter Stallybrass, Allon White, 1986 Book

Shakespeare's professional career - Peter Thomson, 1999 Book

The impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640 - Peter Marshall, 1997 Book

Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550-1860 - Roy Porter, Economic History Society, 1993 Book

Crime in early modern England, 1550-1750 - J. A. Sharpe, 1999 Book

The cradle king: a life of James VI and I - Alan Stewart, 2004 Book

The City in cultural context - John A. Agnew, John Mercer, David E. Sopher, 1984 Book | Book not available at Brookes - Bodleian Library only

Unsettled: the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England - Patricia Fumerton, 2006 Book

The culture of capital: property, cities, and knowledge in early modern England - Henry S. Turner, 2002 Book

A companion to Shakespeare - David Scott Kastan, 1999 Book | See chapter by Ian Archer, ‘Shakespeare’s London’

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Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare - Douglas Bruster, 1992 Book

Maps and memory in early modern England: a sense of place - Rhonda Lemke Sanford, 2002 Book

The Oxford companion to Shakespeare - Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, 2001 Book

The materiality of religion in early modern English drama - Elizabeth Williamson, 2016 Book

Early modern women and gender (7 items)

The cultural identity of seventeenth century woman: a reader - N. H. Keeble, 1994 Book

The body embarrassed: drama and the disciplines of shame in early modern England - Gail Kern Paster, 1993 Book

Impersonations: the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England - Stephen Orgel, 1996 Book

Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in 'The Roaring Girl' - Mary Beth Rose, 1984 Article

Enter the body: women and representation on Shakespeare's stage - Carol Chillington Rutter, 2001 Book

Male-to-female crossdressing in early modern English literature: gender, performance, and queer relations - Simone Chess, 2016 Book

Shakespeare and gender in practice - Terri Power, 2016 Book

Early modern London (30 items)

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The figure of the crowd in early modern London: the city and its double - Ian Munro, 2005 Book

Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book

The pursuit of stability: social relations in Elizabethan London - Ian Archer, 1991 Book

The theatrical city: culture, theatre, and politics in London, 1576-1649 - David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David M. Bevington, 1995 Book

Elizabeth's London: everyday life in Elizabethan London - Liza Picard, 2003 Book

Cony-catchers and bawdy baskets: an anthology of Elizabethan low life - Ga ̄ mini Salga ̄ do, 1972 Book

London: the biography - Peter Ackroyd, 2001 Book

London 1500-1700: the making of the metropolis - A. L. Beier, Roger Finlay, 1986 Book

The Cambridge urban history of Britain: Vol.2: 1540-1840 - Peter Clark, 2000 Book

London in early modern English drama: representing the built environment - Darryll Grantley, 2008 Book

Londinopolis: essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London - Paul Griffiths, Mark S. R. Jenner, 2000 Book

Cities in civilization: culture, innovation and urban order - Peter Hall, 1998 Book | See chapter by Peter Hall, ‘The World as Stage: London 1570-1620’

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Literature and culture in early modern London - Lawrence Manley, 1995 Book

The figure of the crowd in early modern London: the city and its double - Ian Munro, 2005 Book

Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book

London: a social history - Roy Porter, 1994 Book

The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649 - David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington, 1995 Book

A survey of London - John Stow, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 1971 Book

Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 - J. F. Merritt, 2001 Book

London dispossessed: literature and social space in the early modern city - John Twyning, 1998 Book

Metropolitan communities: trade guilds, identity, and change in early modern London - Joseph P. Ward, 1997 Book

Theatre, court and city, 1595-1610: drama and social space in London - Janette Dillon, 2000 Book

Introduction: The Great World of Early Modern London - Deborah Harkness, Jean E. Howard , 2008 Article

Shakespeare's London theatreland: archaeology, history and drama - Julian Bowsher, 2012 Book

Why Did London Inns Function as Theaters? - Lawrence Manley, 2008 Article

Practicing the city: early modern London on stage - Nina S. Levine, 2016 Book

Early modern comedy (12 items)

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London Comedy and the Ethos of the City - Anne Barton, 1978 Article

The Displacement of the Market in Jacobean City Comedy - Lorna Hutson, 1989 Article

Theater of a city: the places of London comedy, 1598-1642 - Jean E. Howard, c2007 Book

Rabelais and his world - M. M. Bakhtin, c1984 Book

Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture - Johan Huizinga, 1955 Book

Shakespeare and carnival: after Bakhtin - Ronald Knowles, 1998 Book

The city staged: Jacobean comedy, 1603-1613 - Theodore B. Leinwand, 1986 Book

Comedy - W. Moelwyn Merchant, 1972 Book

Comedy - Andrew Stott, 2005 Book

Jacobean city comedy - Brian Gibbons, 1980 Book

Citizen comedy in the age of Shakespeare - Alexander Leggatt, 1973 Book

Parsing the city: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and city comedy's London as language - Heather C. Easterling, 2014 Book

Early modern theatrical culture (24 items)

The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama - A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway, 2003 Book | See especially chapter 1, 'Playhouses and Players', by R. A. Foakes.

Shakespeare's theatre - Peter Thomson, 1992 Book

The human stage: English theatre design, 1567-1640 - John Orrell, 2009 Book

Eyewitnesses of Shakespeare: first hand accounts of performances 1590-1890 - Ga

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̄ mini Salga ̄ do, 1975 Book

Jacobean public theatre - Alexander Leggatt, 1992 Book | Not available at Brookes library, but held at Bodleian.

Shakespeare: an illustrated stage history - Jonathan Bate, Russell Jackson, 1996 Book

This stage-play world: texts and contexts, 1580-1625 - Julia Briggs, 1997 Book

Shakespeare's Globe rebuilt - Ronnie Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, 1997 Book

Environmental degradation in Jacobean drama - Bruce Thomas Boehrer, 2013 Book

Shakespeare's restless world - Neil MacGregor, 2014 Book

Carnival and theater: plebeian culture and the structure of authority in Renaissance England - Michael D. Bristol, 1985 Book

The Revels history of drama in English - Clifford Leech, T. W. Craik, J. Leeds Barroll, 1975 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.6: Theatres - Gerald Eades Bentley, 1968 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.1: Dramatic companies and players - Gerald Eades Bentley, 1966 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.2: Dramatic companies and players - Gerald Eades Bentley, 1966 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.3: Plays and playwrights - Gerald Eades Bentley, 1967 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.4: Plays and playwrights - Gerald Eades Bentley, 1967 Book

The Jacobean and Caroline stage: Vol.5: Plays and playwrights - Gerald Eades Bentley,

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1967 Book

Shakespeare and his theatre - John Russell Brown, David Gentleman, 1982 Book

The Shakespearean stage, 1574-1642 - Andrew Gurr, 2009 Book | Several other editions available in the library

The stage and social struggle in early modern England - Jean E. Howard, 1994 Book

The place of the stage: license, play, and power in Renaissance England - Steven Mullaney, c1995 Book

Early modern English drama: a critical companion - Garrett A. Sullivan, Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Cheney, 2006 Book

The chamber of demonstrations: reconstructing the Jacobean indoor playhouse - Martin White, 2009 Audio-visual document

The Shoemaker's Holiday (12 items)

Work, Bodies, and Gender in "The Shoemaker's Holiday" - Ronda A. Arab, 2001 Article

The Sources of the Characters in "The Shoemaker's Holiday" - W. K. Chandler, 1929 Article

Whose Saint Crispin's Day Is It?: Shoemaking, Holiday Making, and the Politics of Memory in Early Modern England - Alison A. Chapman, 2001 Article

Ludgate Time: Simon Eyre's Oath and the Temporal Economies of "The Shoemaker's Holiday" - Jonathan Gil Harris, 2008 Article

The Construction of The Shoemakers' Holiday - Michael Manheim, 1970 Article

Feasting on Eyre: Community, Consumption, and Communion in The Shoemaker's Holiday. - Stephen Maynard, 1998 Article

The Economics of Joy in The Shoemakers' Holiday - Peter Mortenson, 1976 Article

Performing Cross-Class Clandestine Marriage in "The Shoemaker's Holiday" - Amy L. Smith,

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The End(s) of Discord in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Marta Straznicky, 1996 Article

Performing Historicity in Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday" - Brian Walsh, 2006 Article

“Cry Clubs for Prentices”: (Not) Performing Riot in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday - Matt Williamson, 2018 Article

The Social Meaning of Money in Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice - Huey-ling Lee, 2015 Article

Eastward Ho (11 items)

Marston, Collaboration, and "Eastward Ho!" - Suzanne Gossett, 2004 Article

Hamlet and Eastward Ho - Richard Horwich, 1971 Article

Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Drapers: Freemen and Apprentices in the Elizabethan Theater - David Kathman, 2004 Article

Images of the city - Agnieszka Rasmus, Magdalena Cieslak, 2009 Book | See Irena Janicka-Swiderska's chapter, ‘London and Londoners in Eastward Ho! And Other City Comedies of the Earlier Seventeenth Century’

The idea of the city in the age of Shakespeare - Gail Kern Paster, c1985 Book | See Shona McIntosh's chapter ‘Space, Place and Transformation in Eastward Ho! and The Alchemist’

The rhetoric of credit: merchants in early modern writing - Ceri Sullivan, 2002 Book

Plotting early modern London: new essays on Jacobean city comedy - Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Brian Gibbons, c2004 Book | See Anne-Julia Zwierlein's chapter, ‘Shipwrecks in the City: Commercial Risk and Romance in Early Modern City Comedy’

Our scene is London: Ben Jonson's city and the space of the author - James D. Mardock, c2008 Book

The Taming of the Thames: Reading the River in the Seventeenth Century - Joseph P. Ward , 2008

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The Mechanics of Virtue: Quicksilver's "Repentance," the Test of the Audience, and Social Change in Eastward Ho - Maren L Donley, Fall 2013 Article

Class Categorization, Capitalism, and the Problem of "Gentle" Identity in The Royall King and the Loyall Subject and Eastward Ho! - Theodora A. Jankowski, 2006 Article

Every Man in His Humour (8 items)

The Cambridge history of British theatre: Vol. 1: Origins to 1660 - Jane Milling, Peter Thomson, 2004 Book | See chapter by Richard Allen Cave, ‘Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour: A Case Study’

Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self - Lawrence Danson, 1984 Article

Jonson's funnybone. - Alan Fisher, 1997 Article

Liking Men: Ben Jonson's Closet Opened - Lorna Hutson, 2004 Article

Plotting early modern London: new essays on Jacobean city comedy - Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Brian Gibbons, c2004 Book | See Ruth Morse's chapter, ‘What City, Friends, is This?’

The body embarrassed: drama and the disciplines of shame in early modern England - Gail Kern Paster, 1993 Book | Useful for discussion of the early modern humours.

Humoralism and Poverty in Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour" - Matthew Kendrick, 2013 Article

Clement Justice in 'Every Man in His Humor' - Lawrence L. Levin, 1972 Article

Henry IV Part One (14 items)

Shakespeare in London - Hannah Jane Crawforth, Sarah Dustagheer, Jennifer Young, 2015 Book

The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's history plays - Warren L. Chernaik, 2007 Book

A companion to Shakespeare's works: Volume 2: The histories - Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, 2006

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Book | See essays by Ian Frederick Moulton, James Knowles and Lois Potter

Political Shakespeare: essays in cultural materialism - Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, 1994 Book | See Stephen Greenblatt's chapter, ‘Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V’

A companion to Shakespeare and performance - Barbara Hodgdon, William B. Worthen, 2005 Book | See Diane E. Henderson's chapter, 'Performing History: Henry IV, Money, and the Fashion of the Times’

Shakespeare: the histories - Graham Holderness, 2000 Book

Engendering a nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories - Jean E. Howard, Phyllis Rackin, 1997 Book

Extending Credit in the Henry IV Plays - Nina Levine, 2000 Article

Stages of history: Shakespeare's English chronicles - Phyllis Rackin, 1991 Book

Shakespeare's English kings: history, chronicle, and drama - Peter Saccio, 2000 Book

Shakespeare's histories - Emma Smith, 2004 Book

Shakespeare and the Carriers - Alan Stewart, 2007 Article

Measure for Measure (17 items)

Measure for measure: live from the Globe - William Shakespeare, 2004 Audio-visual document

Shakespeare's problem plays - E. M. W. Tillyard, 1950 Book

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Myriad-minded Shakespeare: essays, chiefly on the tragedies and problem comedies - E. A. J. Honigmann, 1989 Book

Shakespeare and the reason: a study of the tragedies and the problem plays - Terence Hawkes, 1964 Book

A companion to Shakespeare's works - Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, 2003 Book

A companion to Shakespeare's works: Volume 4: The poems, problem comedies, late plays - Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, 2006 Book

Measure for Measure and the Problem of Style - Matthew Hunter, 2016 Article

Disgust c. 1600 - Benedict Robinson, 2014 Article

"Infinite Space": Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure - Huston Diehl, 1998 Article

"Measure for Measure", New Historicism, and Theatrical Power - Anthony B. Dawson, 1988 Article

Substitution in "Measure for Measure" - Alexander Leggatt, 1988 Article

Political Shakespeare: essays in cultural materialism - Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, 1994 Book | See essay by Kate McLuskie, ‘The Patriarchal Bard: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for Measure’

Inwardness and theater in the English Renaissance - Katharine Eisaman Maus, 1995 Book | See pp. 157-181 on sexual secrecy in Measure for Measure.

Alternative Shakespeares - John Drakakis, 2002 Book | See essay by Jacqueline Rose, ‘Sexuality in the Reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure’

The demonic: literature and experience - Ewan Fernie, 2013 Book | See pp. 191-200 for a discussion of the demonic Angelo.

"Our City's Institutions": Some Further Reflections on the Marriage Contracts in Measure for Measure - Margaret Scott, 1982

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The Roaring Girl (17 items)

Attending to early modern women - Susan Dwyer Amussen, Adele F. Seeff, University of Maryland. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, 1998 Book

Representing women in Renaissance England - Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth, c1997 Book

Homosexuality in Renaissance England - Alan Bray, 1995 Book

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe - Kathleen P. Long, 2006 Book

Enacting gender on the English Renaissance stage - Viviana Comensoli, Anne Russell, c1999 Book

Renaissance woman: a sourcebook : constructions of femininity in England - Kate Aughterson, 1995 Book

Rewriting the Renaissance: the discourses of sexual difference in early modern Europe - Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy J. Vickers, 1986 Book

Women in early modern Britain, 1450-1640 - Christine Peters, 2004 Book

The Act, the Role, and the Actor: Boy Actresses On the Elizabethan Stage - Kathleen McLuskie, 1987 Article

The Power of Ignorance and "The Roaring Girl" - Ryan Singh Paul, 2013 Article | Article not available through Brookes Library

"The Voice That Will Drown All the City": Un-Gendering Noise in "The Roaring Girl" - Jennie Votava, 2011 Article

"The Roaring Girl's" London Spaces - Kelly J. Stage, 2009 Article

The Character of Credit and the Problem of Belief in Middleton's City Comedies - Aaron Kitch, 2007 Article

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Early modern English drama: a critical companion - Garrett A. Sullivan, Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Cheney, 2006 Book | See chapter by Clare McManus, 'The Roaring Girl and the London Underworld'

Marked Angels: Counterfeits, Commodities, and "The Roaring Girl". - Valerie Forman, 2001 Article

Hic Mulier, Haec Vir, and the Controversy over Masculine Women. - Sandra Clark, 1985 Article

Mistris hic & haec: Representations of Moll Frith. - Anthony B. Dawson, 1993 Article

Epicene (13 items)

Jonson's "Italian riddle": Epicene and the Translation of Aretino's Female Speech - Andrew S. Keener, 2014 Article

The "Figure of Exchange": Shakespeare's "Master Mistress," Jonson's "Epicene," and the English Art of Rhetoric - Jenny C Mann, 2010 Article

Dumb Reading: The Noise of the Mute in Jonson's Epicene. - Adrian Curtin, 2009 Article

Female Spectators and the Erotics of the Diminutive in "Epicoene" and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" - Valerie Billing, 2014 Article | Article not available through Brookes Library

Wasting Time in Ben Jonson's Epicoene. - Mathew Martin, 2008 Article

Prosthetic Absence in Ben Jonson's "Epicoene," "The Alchemist," and "Bartholomew Fair" - 2007 Article | Article not available through Brookes Library

Morose's Turban. - Barbara Sebek, 2007 Article

Sounding the Space between Men: Choric and Choral Cities in Ben Jonson's "Epicoene; Or, the Silent Woman" - Mimi Yiu, 2007 Article

"Things Like Truths, Well Feigned": Mimesis and Secrecy in Jonson's "Epicoene" - Reuben Sanchez, 2006 Article

The Social Logic of Ben Jonson's "Epicoene" - Adam Zucker, 2004 Article

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When Theaters Were Bear-Gardens; or, What's at Stake in the Comedy of Humors - Jason Scott-Warren, 2003 Article

Refashioning Society in Ben Jonson's Epicoene - Marjorie Swann, 1998 Article

The Successful Unity of Epicoene: A Defense of Ben Jonson - Mark A. Anderson, 1970 Article

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (16 items)

A chaste maid in Cheapside: March 2010 - Thomas Middleton, 2010 Audio-visual document

Thomas Middleton in context - Suzanne Gossett, 2011 Book

Chastity in early Stuart literature and culture - Bonnie Lander, 2015 Book

Old Cheapside and Poultry: ancient houses and signs - Kenneth Rogers, 1931 Book

Thomas Middleton - J. R. Mulryne, 1979 Book

Thomas Middleton, Renaissance dramatist - Michelle O'Callaghan, c2009 Book

Subject Formation in "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" - Sallie Anglin, 2012 Article

“Goldsmith's ware”: Equivalence in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Karen Newman, 2008 Article

Early modern English drama: a critical companion - Garrett A. Sullivan, Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Cheney, 2006 Book | See essay by Karen Newman, 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and London'

EMLS 8.3 (January, 2003]: 4.1-51 "O, how my offences wrestle with my repentance!" Webpage

[EMLS 8.3 (January, 2003]: 5.1-26 Realism, Desire and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Webpage

[EMLS 8.3 (January, 2003]: 1.1-22 Comedy, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Webpage

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The Incarnations of Comedy. - William W. E. Slights, 1981 Article | Article not available full text

Machiavelli's Mandragola, Touchwood Senior, and the Comedy of Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Robert I. Williams, 1970 Article

Fertility and Comic Form in "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" - Arthur F. Marotti, 1969 Article

The Four Plots of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Richard Levin, 1965 Article

The Knight of the Burning Pestle (16 items)

The knight of the burning pestle - Francis Beaumont, Michael Hattaway, 2002 Book

Paratexts in Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle. - David M. Bergeron, 2009 Article

"Is Not All the World Mile End, Mother?": The Blackfriars Theater, the City of London, and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" - Janette Dillon, 1997 Article

Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the Prodigal Son Plays - John Doebler, 1965 Article

The Duchess of Malfi, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and The Malcontent: Shakespeare's Globe, January-April 2014 - Bridget Escolme, 2014 Article

Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle. - Zachary Lesser Article

The Original Music for Beaumont's Play "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" - Edwin S. Lindsey, 1929 Article

Plotting early modern London: new essays on Jacobean city comedy - Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Brian Gibbons, c2004 Book | See chapter by Angela Stock, '"Something Done in Honour of the City": Ritual, Theatre and Satire in Jacobean Civic Pageantry' - includes some material on 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle'

Plotting early modern London: new essays on Jacobean city comedy - Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Brian Gibbons, c2004 Book | See chapter by Matthias Bauer, 'Doolittle's Father(s): Master Merrythought in The Knight of the Burning Pestle'

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Children of the Queen's Revels: a Jacobean theatre repertory - Lucy Munro, 2005 Book

Reading Between the Acts: Satire and the Interludes in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. - Joshua S. Smith, 2012 Article

Early modern English drama: a critical companion - Garrett A. Sullivan, Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Cheney, 2006 Book | See chapter by Lucy Munro on 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle'

Shakespeare and theatrical patronage in early modern England - Paul Whitfield White, Suzanne R. Westfall, 2002 Book | Includes the following chapter: 'The Audience as Patron: The Knight of the Burning Pestle'

Staging Exchange: Why "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" Flopped at Blackfriars in 1607 - Brent E. Whitted, 2011 Article

A Dramaturgical Study of Merrythought's Songs in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" - Katrine K. Wong, 2009 Article

Ausgabe 8 (2010): Shakespeare-Gesellschaft Webpage | Includes the following essay: 'And Here in London, Where I Oft Have Been': Contrasting Representations of the Early Modern Capital at the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599-1609 Dustagheer, Sarah

Places to visit (5 items)

Museum of London Webpage

Shakespeare’s Birthplace Webpage

The History of Shakespeare's Church - Holy Trinity Church Webpage

Royal Shakespeare Company | RSC Website

Shakespeare's Globe Website | There are 700 £5 standing tickets available every day. They also have an interesting exhibition.

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