Barber, C. L. Creating Elizabethan
Tragedy. Chicago UP, 1988. [for Kyd and Marlowe]
Bergeron, David M., and Geraldo U. de
Sousa. Shakespeare: A Study & Research Guide. UP of Kansas, 1995.
[a research guide that provides an excellent list of secondary sources]
Bradbrook, M. C. John Webster: Citizen
and Dramatist. New York: Columbia UP, 1980.
Braunmuller, A. R., and Michael Hattaway,
eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama.
Cambridge UP, 1990. [all the dramatists we're currently studying, with a
good bibliography]
Gibbons, Brian. Jacobean City Comedy.
London and New York: Methuen & Co., 1980. [good information on Jonson]
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in
Shakespeare's London. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1989.
___. The Shakespearean Stage,
1574-1642. Cambridge UP, 1980. [still the basic "handbook" for
understanding the era's dramatists, plays, stage practices, acting styles,
etc.]
Howard, Jean. The Stage and Social
Struggle in Early Modern England. London and New York: Routledge,
1994. [how culture and society shaped the drama]
Leggatt, Alexander. English Drama:
Shakespeare to the Restoration, 1590-1660. London and New York:
Longman, 1988. [all the dramatists we're currently studying, with a
general bibliography]
Levin, Harry. The Overreacher: A Study
of Christopher Marlowe. Harvard UP, 1952. [still regarded as the most
significant work on Marlowe]
McDonald, Charles Osborne. The
Rhetoric of Tragedy. U of Massachusetts P, 1966.
Muir, Kenneth, and Samuel Schoenbaum,
eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge UP, 1984.
[excellent essays on everything from philosophical background, physical
layout of the theatres, to acting styles]
Righter, Anne Barton. Shakespeare and
the Idea of the Play. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1969. [an
excellent overview of the development of the Renaissance stage and its
practices]