Additional bibliography for study
ON THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS SITUATION
MacDonald, Russ. The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare. St Martin’s Press, 1996.
Hattaway, Michael. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture.
(2003) PR 411. C66
Hattaway, Michael. Renaissance and Reformations: an Introduction to Early
Modern English Literature. (Blackwell, 2005). PR421. H27
Aries, Philippe and Georges Duby. A History of Private Life, vol. 2:
Revelations of the Medieval World. Harvard Univ Press, 1987.
Pages 509-630. GT400. H5713
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage 1500-1800. HQ613. S76 1977
ON THE SONNET
Ferry, Anne. The ‘Inward Language’: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare.
(1983) PR 539.S7F47
Schiffer, James. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. PR2848. S46
More, Mary. Women Sonneteers and Patrarchism. PN1514. M58
Cruttwell, Maurice The English Sonnet. PR509.S7.C83
ON ROMEO AND JULIET
Halio, Jay. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Texts, Contexts, and Interpretation
(1995). PR2831. A2H27. See essay by Francois Laroque, “Tradition and
Subversion in Romeo and Juliet”.
Courtney, Richard. Shakespeare’s World of Death (1995)
PR 2983.C68 (includes a chapter on R&J)
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. The New Folger Library Series.
(See the essay “Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Perspective” by Gail Kern Paster,
pages 253-265) PR2831. A2M69 (1992)
Callaghan, Dympna. The Wayward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics
(1994). PR 2991.C34. (Ch. 4 on the Ideology of Romantic Love in R&J)