A bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

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Culpeper, Nicholas. Health for the Rich and Poor, by Diet, without Physick. London, 1670.

Damasio, Antonio. Descartes's Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: Putnam, 1994.

de Grazia, Margreta. "The Motive for Interiority." Style 23 (1989): 430-44.

Empson, William. "They That Have Power: Twist of Heroic-Pastoral ideas into an Ironical Acceptance of Aristocracy." In Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral. 1935. Rpt. New York: New Directions, 1974. 89-115.
Green, Henry. Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers. London: Trubner and Co., 1870.

Herbert, George. The Works of George Herbert. Ed. F. E. Hutchinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941.

The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. 1611. Rtp. Nashville: Nelson, 1982.

Huarte, Juan. The Examination of Men's Wits. 1594. Trans. Richard Carew. Ed. Carmen Rogers. Gainesville: Florida Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1959.

Hubler, Edward. The Sense of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1952.

Kaufman, Peter Iver. Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Knights, L. C. "Shakespeare's Sonnets." Scrutiny 3 (1934): 133-60.

Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1990.

Laurentius, M. Andreas. A Discourse of the Preservation of the Sight. 1599. Trans. Richard Surphlet. Ed. Sanford Larkey. London: Oxford UP, 1938.

Leishman, J. B. Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Lyons, Bridget Gellert. Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England. New York: Norton, 1975.

Matson, Wallace I. "Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Ancient?" In Mind, Matter, and Method. Ed. Paul Feyerabend and Grover Maxwell. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1966. 92-102.

Maus, Katharine Eisaman. Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

Monsarrat, Gilles. Light from the Porch: Stoicism and English Renaissance Literature. Paris: Didier-Erudition, 1984.

Pequigney, Joseph. Such Is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1979.

Salmon, J. H. "Seneca and Tacitus in Jacobean England." In The Mental World of the Jacobean Court. Ed. Linda Levy Peck. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 169-88.

Schleiner, Winfred. Melancholy, Genius, and Utopia in the Renaissance. Wiesbaden: In Kommission bei Otto Harrassowitz, 1991.

Schoenfeldt, Michael. "George Herbert's Consuming Subject." In George Herbert in the Nineties: Reflections and Reassessments. Ed. Jonathan F. S. Post and Sidney Gottlieb. Fairfield (CT): George Herbert Journal Special Studies and Monographs, 1995. 105-32.

Shakespeare. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

Zizek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso, 1989.

Shakespeare. Sonnets. In Complete Works. Ed. David Bevington.

Crosman, Robert. "'Making Love or Nothing at All': The Issue of Story in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets." Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 470-88.

de Grazia, Margreta. "The Motive for Interiority: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Hamlet." Style 23 (1989): 430-44.

_____. Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.

Feinberg, Nona. "Erasing the Dark Lady: Sonnet 138 in the Sequence." Assays 3 (1987): 97-108.

Finlay, Michael. Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen. Wetheral (Scotland): Plains Books, 1990.

Goldberg, Jonathan. Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 1990.

Hall, Kim. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.

Hedley, Jane. "'Since First Your Eye I Eyed': Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Poetics of Narcissism." Style 28 (1994): 1-30.

Love, Harold. Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Marotti, Arthur F. "Shakespeare's Sonnets as Literary Property." In Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Ed. Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katherine Eisaman Maus. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 143-73.

Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1993.

Rosmarin, Adena. "Hermeneutics versus Erotics: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Interpretive History." PMLA 100 (1985): 20-37.

Saunders, J. W. "The Stigma of Print: A Note on the Social Bases of Tudor Poetry." Essays in Criticism 1 (1951): 139-64.

Schalkwyk, David. "'She Never Told Her Love': Embodiment, Textuality, and Silence in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays." Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1994): 381-407.

Shakespeare. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Ed. David Bevington. 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

_____. The Sonnets. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Spiller, Michael R. T. The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1992.

Stallybrass, Peter. "Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespere's Sonnets." Modern Language Quarterly 54 (1993): 91-103.

Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

West, William N. "Nothing as Given: Economies of the Gift in Derrida and Shakesperar." Comparative Literature 48 (1996): 1-18.

Williams, Gordon. Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution. London: Athlone, 1996.
Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare's Plays. London: Routledge, 1992.

Austern, Linda. "'Sing Again Syren': The Female Musician and Sexual Enchantment in Elizabethan Life and Literature." Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989): 420-48.

Barber, C. L. "The Family in Shakespeare's Development: Tragedy and Sacredness." In Representing Shakespeare. Ed. Murray M. Schwartz and Coppélia Kahn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.

_____. Rev. of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Ed. Stephen Booth. New York Review of Books 25 (6 April 1978): 32-38.

Barber, C. L., and Richard P. Wheeler. The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.

Clinton, Elizabeth. The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie. 1622. (Brown University Women Writer's Project, print version 0.5P).

Crane, Mary Thomas. "'Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds': Conflicting Identities of English Housewives in the Early Seventeenth Century." Paper delivered at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver (British Columbia), April 1997.

Crosman, Robert. "Making Love out of Nothing at All: The Issue of Story in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets." Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 470-88.

Grymeston, Elizabeth. Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives. London, 1604.

Guillemeau, Jacques. Child-Birth, or, The Happy Deliverie of Women and The Nursing of Children. London, 1612.

The Honor of Virtue. 1620. Rpt. in Half-Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640. Ed. Katherine Usher Henderson and Barbara F. McManus. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1985. 344-50.

Joceline, Elizabeth. The Mothers Legacie, To her unborne Childe. London, 1624.

Leigh, Dorothy. The Mother's Blessing. 1616. Excerpted in Daughters, Wives and Widows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640. Ed. Joan Larsen Klein. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. 291-302.

The Northern Mother's Blessing. London, 1597.

Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

A Pitiless Mother. 1616. Excerpt in Half-Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640. Ed. Katherine Usher-Henderson and Barbara F. McManus. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1985. 360-67.

Rose, Mary Beth. "Where Are the Mothers in Shakespeare? Options for Gender Representation in the English Renaissance." Shakespeare Quarterly 42 (1991): 291-314.

Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

Sidney, Philip (Sir). Astrophil and Stella. In The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney. Ed. William Ringler Jr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.

Sprung, Andrew. "Chary Charity: Mother Love and Infant Need in Shakespeare's Sonnets." American Imago 47 (1990): 365-82.

Tusser, Thomas. The Points of Huswiferie United to the Comforts of Husbandrie. London, 1570.

van den Berg, Sara. "'Mutual Ordering': Subjectivity and Language in Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Contending Kingdoms. Ed. Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991. 173-201.

Wheeler, Richard P. "'… And my loud crying still': The Sonnets, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello." In Shakespeare's 'Rough Magic': Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber. Ed. Peter Erickson and Coppélia Kahn. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1985. 193-209.

Willis, Deborah. Malevolent Nature: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.

Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality. New York: Basic Books, 1971.

Wroth, Mary (Lady). Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983.

Newdigate-Newdegate (Lady). Gossip from the Muniment Room. London: David Nutt, 1897.

Crashaw, Richard. Steps to the Temple. Menston: Scolar, 1970.

Edwards, Paul. "The Early African Presence in the British Isles." In Essays on the History of Blacks in Britain from Roman Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Ed. Jagdish S. Gundara and Ian Duffield. Aldershot: Avebury, 1992. 9-29.

Felperin, Howard. "The Dark Lady Identified, or What Deconstruction Can Do for Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Shakespeare and Deconstruction. Ed. G. Douglas Atkins and David Bergeron. New York: Lang, 1988. 69-93.

Fisher, J. D. C. Christian Initiation: Baptism in the Medieval West: A Study of the Disintegration of the Primitive Rite of Initiation. London: S. P. C. K., 1965.

Hakluyt, Richard. Principal Navigations . . . of the English Nation. 8 vols. London: Dent, 1927.

Harrison, G. B. Shakespeare under Elizabeth. New York: Knopf, 1933.

Herbert. The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert. Ed. Alexander Grosart. 3 vols. London, 1874.

Hotson, Leslie. Mr. W. H. New York: Knopf, 1964.

Jones, Eldred D. The Elizabethan Image of Africa. Washington: Folger Library, 1971.

Marder, Louis. "'The Dark Lady': Demise of a Theory." Shakespeare Newsletter (May 1973): 24.

Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

Revett, Eldred. Selected Poems Humane and Divine. Ed. Donald M. Friedman. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1966.

Rowse, A. L. Discovering Shakespeare: A Chapter in Literary History. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.

_____. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved. 2nd ed. New York: Harper, 1973.

_____. Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974.

Schoenbaum, Samuel. "Shakespeare's Dark Lady: A Question of Identity." In Shakespeare's Styles: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Muir. Ed. Philip Edwards, Inga-Stina Ewbank, and G. K. Hunter. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980. 221-39.

Shaw, George Bernard. Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Plays, with a Treatise on Parents and Children. New York: Brentano's, 1930.

Shyllon, Folarin. Black People in Britain 1555-1833. London: Oxford UP, 1977.

Tyler, Thomas. The Herbert-Fitton Theory of Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Reply. London: David Nutt, 1898.

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Whitaker, E. C. Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy. London: S. P. C. K., 1960.

Barber, C. L. "An Essay on the Sonnets." In Elizabethan Poetry. Ed. Paul J. Alpers. New York: Oxford UP, 1967. 299-320.

Bashford, Bruce. "Hermeneutics in Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W. H.." Papers on Language and Literature 24 (1988): 412-22.

Bredbeck, Gregory. "Narcissus in the Wilde: Textual Cathexis and the Historical Origins of Queer Camp." The Politics and Poetics of Camp. Ed. Moe Meyer. London: Routledge, 1994. 51-74.

_____. "Tradition and the Individual Sodomite." In Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. 141-86.

Chedgzoy, Kate. "'Strange Worship': Oscar Wilde and the Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Shakespeare's Queer children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995. 135-76.

Cohen, Ed. Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualitites. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Cohen, William., "Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. W. H." South Atlantic Quarterly 88 (1991): 207-33.

Danson, Lawrence. "Oscar Wilde, W. H., and the Unspoken Name of Love." ELH 58 (1991): 979-99.

_____. Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticisms. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Dowden, Edward. Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art. London: Henry S. King, 1875.

Dillon, Steve. "The Archaeology of Victorian Literature." Modern Language Quarterly 54 (1993): 237-61.

Donnelly, Ignatius. The Great Cryptogram. Chicago: R. F. Peale, 1888.

Fineman, Joel. "The Significance of Literature: The Importance of Being Earnest." In Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde. Ed. Regenia Gagnier. New York: G. K. Hall, 1991. 108-18.

Foster, Donald. "Master W. H., R. I. P." PMLA 102 (1987): 42-55.

Hubler, Edward, ed. The Riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets. New York: Basic Books, 1962.

Hyde, H. Montgomery, ed. The Trials of Oscar Wilde. London: William Hodge, 1948.

Kopelson, Kevin. "Wilde's Love-deaths." Yale Journal of Criticism 5 (1992): 52-54.

Pater, Walter. The Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986.

Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare's Lives. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Schroeder, Horst. Annotations to Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Braunschweig: privately printed, 1986.

Sedgwick, Eve K. "Some Binarisms (II): Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body." Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. 131-8.

_____. "Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire. New York: New York: Columbia UP, 1985. 28-48.
Sinfield, Alan. The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Movement. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.

Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Works. Ed. Vyvyan Holland. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Wordsworth, William. Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson and Ernest de Selincourt. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1936.

Auden, W. H. Introd. to The Sonnets. By William Shakespeare. Ed. William Burto. New York: New American Library-Signet, 1964. xvii-xxxviii.

Beal, Peter. Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1625. London: Mansell, 1980.

Della Casa, Giovanni. Galateo . . . Or rather, A treatise of the manner and behaviours, it behoueth a man to vse and eschewe, in his familiar conuersation. Trans. Robert Peterson. London: Ralph Newberry, 1576.

Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "The Marriage of Male Minds in Shakespeare's Sonnets." Journal of English and Germanic Philosphy 84 (1985): 328-47.

Gurr, Andrew. "You and Thou in Shakesepeare's Sonnets." Essays in Criticism 32 (1982): 9-25.

Irigaray, Luce. "This Sex Which Is Not One." Trans. Claudia Reeder. In New French Feminisms: An Anthology. Ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1980.

Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1990.

Marlowe, Christopher. Complete Works. Ed. Fredson Bowers. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Marott, Arthur F. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.

Melchiori, Giorgio. Shakespeare's Dramatic Meditations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Osborne, Charles. "Coriolanus as Principal Boy." The Daily Telegraph 7 Dec. 1989: 18.

Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

Sidney. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The Old Arcadia. Ed. Jean Robertson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

Spevack, Marvin. A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare. hildesheim: Olms, 1968.

States, Bert O. Hamlet and the Concept of Character. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.

Bredbeck, Gregory. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

Blount, Thomas. Glossographia: Or, A Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words of Whatsoever Language Now Used in our Refined English Tongue. London, 1661. 1670.

Bray, Alan. "Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Frienship in Elizabethan England." In Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham: Duke UP, 1994. 40-61.

Coke, Edward (Sir). Third Part of the Institute of the Lawes of England. London, 1644.

DiGangi, Mario. The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Erasmus. Defense of His Declamation in Praise of Marriage. 1519. Trans. David Sider. In Daughters, Wives and Wisdows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640. Ed. Joan Larsen Klein. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. 89-96.

Goldberg, Jonathan. "Romeo and Juliet's Open R's." In Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1994. 218-35.

Herrup, Cynthia. "The Patriarch at Home: The Trial of the Earl of Castlehaven for Rape and Sodomy." History Workshop Journal 41 (1996): 1-18.

Hunt, Margaret. Afterword to Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1994. 359-77.

Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Marotti, Arthur. "'Love Is Not Love': Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences and the Social Order." ELH 49 (1982): 396-428.

Masten, Jeffrey. Textual Intercourse: Colalboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Perkins, William. Christian Oeconomy. Trans. Thomas Pickering. London, 1609.

Rose, Mary Beth. The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

Simons, Patricia. "Lesbian (In)Visibility in Italian Renaissance Culture: Diana and Other Cases of donna con donna." Journal of Homosexuality 27 (1994): 81-122.

Shakespeare. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Ed. David Bevington. 4th ed. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.

_____. Shakespeare's Sonnets. Ed. Stephen Booth. New Haven: Yale UP, 1977.

Stubbes, Philip. The Anatomy of Abuses. London, 1583.

Traub, Valerie. "The (In)Significance of 'Lesbian' Desire." In Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1994. 62-83.

_____. "The Perversion of 'Lesbian' Desire." History Workshop Journal 41 (1996): 19-49.

_____. "The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2 (1995): 81-112.
Lodge. Philis and the Tragical Complaingt of Elstred. Sonnet sequence and poem. 1593.

_____. Amoretti and Epithalamion. 1595.

Daniel. Delia and A Complaint of Rosamond. 1592.

Anderson, Judith. Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984.

Barber, C. L. "An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Shakespeare's Sonnets: Modern Critical Interpreatations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 5-27.

Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Bredbeck, Gregory W. "Tradition and the Individual Sodomite: Barnfield, Shakespeare, and Subjective Desire." In Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Contexts. Ed. Claude J. Summers. New York: Haworth, 1992. 41-68.

Colie, Rosalie L. "Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Shakespeare's Sonnets: Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 29-45.

Crosman, Robert. "Making Love out of Nothing at All: The Issue of Story in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets." Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 470-88.

Gascoigne, George. George Gascoigne's A Hundred Sundrie Flowres. Ed. C. T. Prouty. (University of Missouri Studies, 17.2). Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1942.

Harvey, Elizabeth D. Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theories and English Renaissance Texts. London: Routledge, 1992.

Hieatt, A. K., T. G. Bishop and E. A. Nicholson. "Shakespeare's Rare Words: 'Lover's Complain', Cymbeline, and Sonnets." Notes and Queries (1987): 219-24.

Hieatt, A. Kent, Charles W. Hieatt, and Anne Lake Prescott. "When Did Shakespeare Write Sonnets 1609?" Studies in Philology 88 (1991): 69-109.

Jackson, M. P. Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint': Its Date and Authenticity. Auckland: U of Auckland P, 1965.

Kerrigan, John, ed. Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and 'Female Complaint': A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

_____. The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint. New York: Viking, 1986; Harmondworth: Penguin, 1986.

Muir, Kenneth. "'A Lover's Complaint': A Reconsideration." In Muir, Shakespeare the Professional and Related Studies. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1964. 204-19.

_____. Shakespeare's Sonnets. London: Allen and Unwin, 1979.

Schaar, Claes. An Elizabethan Sonnet Problem. (Lund Studies in English 28). Lund: Gleerup, 1960.

Slater, Eliot. "Shakespeare: Word Links between Poems and Plays." Notes and Queries (1975): 157-63.

Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

Whythorne, Thomas. The Autobiography of Thomas Whythorne: Modern Spelling Edition. Ed. James M. Osborn. London: Oxford UP, 1962.