Bibliography
1. History and Criticism
The Cambridge History of English Literature.
English Dramatic Literature—A. W. Ward.
History of English Poetry—W. J. Courthope.
The Mad Folk of Shakespeare—Dr. Bucknill.
Notes on Shakespeare in various editions—notably the Variorum.
Shakespearean Tragedy—A. C. Bradley.
Shakespeare, his mind and art—Ed. Dowden.
Introductions to the various editions mentioned below under
“Drama.”
Notes and Lectures—S. T. Coleridge.
Francis Beaumont—G. C. Macaulay.
The Oxford Dictionary—passim.
Encyclopædia Britannica—s.v. Insanity.
History of the Insane in the British Isles—Tuke.
The Psychology of Insanity—B. Hart.
Survey of London—Stow, ed. Kingsford.
“Have with you to Saffron Walden”—Nash.
“The Belman of London”—Dekker.
“Anatomie of the Bodie of Man”—Vicary.
“Nymphidia”—Drayton.
“The Battle of Agincourt”—Drayton.
2. Drama
The Works of:
| Shakespeare | Globe Edn. (and others). | |
| Lyly | edn. 1858. | |
| Marlowe | Oxford Press. | |
| Beaumont & Fletcher | ed. Dyce (11 vol.). | |
| Massinger | ed. Gifford (4 vol.). | |
| Webster | Mermaid Edn. | |
| Ford | ed. Gifford (2 vol.). | |
| Middleton | ed. Bullen (8 vol.). | |
| Dekker | ed. Pearson (4 vol.). | |
| Jonson | Mermaid Edn. | |
| Marston | ed. Bullen. | |
| Shirley | ed. Dyce; ed. Gifford. | |
| Brome | edn. 1873. | |
| Day | ed. Bullen. | |
| Chettle: | Hoffman | ed. 1852. |
N.B.—References are to the editions named above. Specific notes are given where possible to all quotations directly bearing on the subject of the essay.