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The Earlier Seventeenth Century Drama Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, The Maid’s Tragedy Thomas Carew, Coelum Brittanicum Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry George Chapman, Bussy D’Ambois (1607) Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607) Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece Ben Jonson, Volpone, Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, Sejanus Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Women Beware Women Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling John Milton, Comus, Samson Agonistes William Shakespeare John Webster, The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil’s Law Case Poetry Francis Beaumont, Poems Thomas Carew Margaret Cavendish (Newcastle), Poems and Fancies Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646) Sir John Denham John Donne, Poems (1633/1635) Drayton, Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1606), Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), Poems (1619, 1637) Fulke Greville, Works (1633) George Herbert, The Temple (1633) Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648) Lucy Hutchinson, Order and Disorder Ben Jonson, Epigrams, Forest (in Works, 1616), Underwood (in Works, 1640) King, Poems (1657) Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) Richard Lovelace, Lucasta (1649, 1660 [with Posthume Poems]) Andrew Marvell John Milton Paradise Lost, Poems 1645 and 1671 Katherine Phillips, poems [Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (1646), Last Remains (1659)] Thomas Traherne Henry Vaughan, Poems (1646), Silex Scintillans (1650, 1655) Edmund Waller Isabella Whitney, poems Lady Mary Wroth, selected poems, The Countess of Pembroke’s Urania Prose Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Essays Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy Thomas Browne, Religio Medici Margaret Cavendish (Newcastle), from The Blazing World Thomas Dekker, The Gull’s Horn Book John Donne, Sermons, Devotions Penelope Anderson 2002 debates about status of women, from Half Humankind anthology John Gauden (as Charles I), Eikon Basilike Hobbes, Leviathan, Answer to Davenant’s Preface to Gondibert Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson King James I, selected speeches Milton, Areopagitica, Of Reformation, On Education, Reason of Church Government, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Tetrachordon, Ready and Easy Way, Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Penelope Anderson 2002.

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206 Fletcherian Dramatic Achievement Bibliography Primary sources Apology for Actors Thomas Dekker, An Apology for Actors (1612), ed. Richard H. Per- kinson, New York 1941 Aristotle Poetics, tr. W. Hamilton Fyfe, The Loeb Classics Library, Cam- bridge, Mass., London 1927 St Augustine St Augustine, The Teacher, in Against the Academicians; and, The Teach- er, trans. Peter King, Indianapolis, Cambridge 1995 Bellenden The Chronicles of Scotland: Compiled by Hector Boece: Translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 1531, ed. R. W. Chambers and Edith C. Batho, vol. I, Edinburgh and London 1938 Bowers I-X The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, gen. ed. Fredson Bowers, 10 vols, Cambridge UP 1966–1996 [Cicero] Ad Herennium, tr. Harry Caplan; The Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., London 1954 Demetrius and Enanthe MS John Fletcher, Demetrius and Enanthe, ed. Margaret McLaren Cook and F. P. Wilson, The Malone Society Reprints 1950 (1951) Dio Dio Cassius, Dio’s Roman History, tr. Earnest Cary, vol. vii, The Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., London 1961 Faithful Friends The Faithful Friends, ed. G. R. Proudfoot and G. M. Pinciss, The Malone Society Reprints 1970 (1975) Henslowe’s Diary Henslowe’s Diary, ed. R. A. Foakes, 2nd edition, Cambridge UP 2002. Howard-Hill (1980) Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt: by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, ed. T. H. Howard-Hill, The Malone Society Reprints 1979 (1980) Bonduca MS Bonduca: by John Fletcher, ed. W. W. Greg, The Malone Society Re- prints, 1951 Mann Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, tr. H. T. Lowe-Porter, Everyman’s Library, vol.80, 1992 Masque of Queens Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens (1609), published in his Workes (1616): 945–964 Meres Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598), Scholars’ Facsimiles & Re- prints, New York 1938 Metrical Boece (1858) The Buik of the Chroniclis of Scotland; or, A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece; By William Stewart (1535), ed.
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