Additional bibliography for study
ON THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS SITUATION
Aries, Philippe and Georges Duby. A History of Private Life, vol. 2: Revelations of the Medieval World. Harvard University Press, 1987. Pages 509-630. (GT400.H5713)
Hattaway, Michael. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. (PR411.C66)
Hattaway, Michael. Renaissance and Reformations: an Introduction to Early Modern English Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. (PR421.H27)
MacDonald, Russ. The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare. Boston : Bedford Books, 1996. (PR2894.M385)
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage 1500-1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. (HQ613.S76)
ON THE SONNET
Cruttwell, Maurice. The English Sonnet. London: Longmans, 1969. (PR509.S7.C83)
Ferry, Anne. The ‘Inward Language’: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. (PR 539.S7F47)
More, Mary. Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. (PN1514.M58)
Schiffer, James. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. (PR2848.S46)
ON ROMEO AND JULIET
Callaghan, Dympna. The Wayward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics. Wiley-Blackwell: 1994. Ch. 4 on the Ideology of Romantic Love in R&J) (PR 2991.C34.)
Courtney, Richard. Shakespeare’s World of Death. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1995. (PR 2983.C68)
Laroque, Francois. “Tradition and Subversion in Romeo and Juliet.” In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Texts, Contexts, and Interpretation. Ed. Jay L. Halio. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. (PR2831.A2H27)
Paster, Gail Kern. “Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Perspective.” In Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Eds. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. The New Folger Library Series, 1992. Pages 253-265. (PR2831. A2M69)