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British Renaissance Literature

Jump to: Biography | Primary Sources | Bibliographies and Handbooks 
Criticism and Explication | History, Life, and Culture | Internet Resources

Biography

To find book-length biographies, do a subject search in the online catalog by the individual's name (last, first). To find citations to biographical information in various reference sources, use Biography and Genealogy Master Index in print (REF CT 100 B471) or online from the Electronic Databases page. Among the appropriate sources in our Reference room are these.

  • British Authors before 1800 
    REF PR 105 K9 
  • Dictionary of National Biography 
    REF DA 28 D4 1921 v.1-22 plus suppl. 
  • Kings and Queens of England and France 
    REF D 107 F35 
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography vols. 132, 136, 167, 172: Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers 
  • Who's Who in Shakespeare's England 
    REF DA 317 W49 1981
     

Primary Sources

  • Early English Books, 1475-1640, Microfilm research collection. ( MICRO PR 1121 E11)
    Based on the Pollard and Redgrave bibliography ( MICRO Z 2002 P77 1956) 
  • The Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile Library of Essential Works (Part I, Printed Writings, 1500-1640)
    PR 1121 E19 1996
  • LION (Literature Online) includes the full-text of many literary works.
     

Bibliography and Guides

Primary Bibliographies

  • English Short-Title Catalog (includes entries from the Pollard & Redgrave, Wing, and Eighteenth-Century short- title catalogs 
  • The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 
    REF PR 2 N45 
  • Short-Title Catalogue of English Books, 1435-1640 (Pollard & Redgrave)
    MICRO Z 2002 P77 1956 

 

Secondary Bibliographies and Surveys of the Literature

  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
    REF PR 2 M69 v.1 -  (Also part of Lion)) 
  • MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures  
  • Year's Work in English Studies 
    REF PE 58 E6 v.2, 1920/21 - 
  • English Literature 1660-1800: a Bibliography of Modern Studies
    REF PR 2 E6 1926-1970
  • Reference Works in British and American Literature 
    REF PR 83 B79 1998
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
     

Reference Guides and Other Reference Books

  • English Drama to 1600 (excluding Shakespeare): a Guide to Information Sources
    REF PR 622 P46 
  • The History of the English Novel 
    REF PR 821 B3 
  • The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 
    PN 1021 E5 1993 
  • Dictionaries of Classical Reference in English Poetry 
    REF PR 508 C68 S63 1984 
  • Dictionary of Literary-Rhetorical Conventions of the English Renaissance 
    REF PR 531 D6 
  • Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616 
    REF PR 658 P73 D46 1984
     

Criticism and Explication

For books dealing with a particular author, do a subject search by the author's name (last, first) and note headings that include "Criticism and Interpretation." For general criticism on the literature of the period, do a subject search by "English Literature -- Early Modern -- 1500-1700." Look for the headings that include "History and Criticism." 

For journal articles you will want to use the MLA Bibliography, one of the EBSO databases. It is also available in paper back to 1926.  ABELL, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, is part of the LION database and can be searched separately.  LIONoffers the full-text for a number of journals.  Academic Search Premier indexes most of the Humanities Index titles and includes full-text for many articles.   

You may also consult:

  • Literature Criticism from 1400-1800
    REF PN 86 L53 v.1 - 
  • English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660: an Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
    REF PR 833 H28 1992 
  • Guide to British Poetry Explication: Renaissance 
    REF PR 311 M37 1991 v.2 
  • Drama Criticism 
    REF PN 1707 D73 
  • Poetry Criticism 
    REF PN 1010 P64
     

History, Life and Culture

  • Encyclopedia of the Renaissance 
    REF CB 361 E52 1999 
  • Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603 
    REF DA 315 H5 1991 
  • Tudor England: an Encyclopedia 
    REF DA 315 T753 2001 
  • Renaissance Art: A Topical Dictionary 
    REF N 6370 E27 1987 
  • A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words 
    REF PE 1667 S5 
  • Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
    REF ML 172 C68 1992 
  • Let There Be Clothes: 4000 Years of Fashion 
    REF GT 520 S38 1991 
  • Costumes of Everyday Life: an Illustrated History of Working Clothes, 900-1910
    REF GT 720 L5 
  • The Cambridge World History of Food
    REF TX 353 C255 2000 v.1-2
     

Internet Resources


 
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