Halleck's New English Literature · Chapter 49Literary
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General and Non-Dramatic
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vols. IV., V., and VI.
Courthope's A History of English Poetry, Vol. II.
Schelling's English Literature during the Lifetime of Shakespeare.
Seecombe and Allen's The Age of Shakespeare, 2 vols.
Saintsbury's A History of Elizabethan Literature.
Dictionary of National Biography for lives of Lyly, Sidney, Hooker.
Bacon, Spenser, and the minor dramatists.
Walton's Life of Hooker.
Church's Life of Bacon. (E.M.L.)
Church's Life of Spenser. (E.M.L.)
Mackail's The Springs of Helicon (Spenser).
Dowden's Transcripts and Studies (Spenser).
Lowell's Among My Books (Spenser).
Erskine's The Elizabethan Lyric.
The Drama[30]
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, 2 vols. Ward's A History of English Dramatic Literature, 3 vols.
Brooke's The Tudor Drama.
Chambers's The Mediaeval Stage.
Allbright's The Shakespearean Stage.
Lawrence's Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies.
Smith's York Plays (Clarendon Press).
Symonds's Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama.
Bates's The English Religious Drama.
Manly's Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama.
Wallace's The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare.
Ingram's Christopher Marlowe and his Associates.
Dowden's Transcripts and Studies (Marlowe).
Symonds's Ben Jonson.
Swinburne's A Study of Ben Jonson.
Shakespeare
Lee's A Life of William Shakespeare.
Furnivall and Munro's Shakespeare: Life and Work.
Harris's The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story.
Halliwell-Phillipps's Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare.
Raleigh's Shakespeare.(E.M.L.)
Baker's The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist.
MacCracken, Pierce, and Durham's An Introduction to Shakespeare.
Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy (excellent).
Bradley's Oxford Lectures on Poetry.
Dowden's Shakespeare, His Mind and Art.
Coleridge's Lectures on Shakespeare (pp. 21-58 of Beers's Selections from the Prose writings of Coleridge).
Lowell's Shakespeare Once More, in Among My Books.
Wallace's Shakespeare, the Globe, and Blackfriars.
How Shakespeare's Senses were Trained, Chap. X. in Halleck's Education of the Central Nervous System.
Rolfe's Shakespeare the Boy.
Boswell-Stone's Shakespeare's Holinshed.
Brooke's Shakespeare's Plutarch, 2 vols.
Madden's The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport.
Winter's Shakespeare on the Stage.