Tudor and Stuart theatre reading list

Astington, John, English Court Theatre, 1558-1642, Cambridge,  Cambridge University Press, 1999

Berger, Thomas L., and others, An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama: Printed Plays, 1500-1660, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Bevington, David, From 'Mankind' to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England, Harvard University Press;Oxford University Press, 1962

Bevington, David M., and Peter Holbrook, eds., The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Biggs, Murray, and others, The Arts of Performance in Elizabethan & Early Stuart Drama, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1991

Bradley, David, From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the Stage,  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Cook, Judith, The Golden Age of the English Theatre, London: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Cox, John D., and Kastan, David Scott, eds., A New History of Early English Drama, New York and Chichester, Columbia University Press, 1997

 Craik, T.W., The Tudor Interlude, Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1958

Dawson, Mark S., Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Dillon, Janette, Theatre, Court and City, 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Evans, G. Blakemore, Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama: A New Mermaid Background Book, London: A & C Black, 1988

Findlay, Alison, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams, Women and Dramatic Production, 1550-1700, Harlow: Longman, 2000

Gibson, Joy Leslie, Squeaking Cleopatras: The Elizabethan Boy Player, Stroud, Sutton, 2000

Hattaway, Michael, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance, London: Routledge and  Kegan Paul, 1982

Jardine, Lisa, Still harping on daughters: women and drama in the age of Shakespeare, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983

Keenan, Siobhan, Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002

Kastan, David Scott, and Peter Stallybrass, eds., Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, New York and London : Routledge, 1991

Kinney, Arthur F., A Companion to Renaissance Drama, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004

Leahy, William, Elizabethan Triumphal Processions, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005

Lopez, Jeremy, Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003

McRae, Andrew, Renaissance Drama, London : Arnold, 2003

Mann, David, The Elizabethan Player: Contemporary Stage Representation, London, Routledge, 1991

Mulryne, J.R., and Margaret Shewring, eds., Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993

Westfall, Suzanne R., Patrons and Performance: Early Tudor Household Revels, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990

White, Paul Whitfield, Theatre and Reformation: Protestantism, Patronage and Playing in Tudor England, Cambridge,  Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Wickham, Glynne, Early English Stages, 1300-1660, 4 vols., London, Routledge, 1963-2002