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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Brief Lives | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Maps The Oxfordshire St. George Play | |
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| The Cycle Plays | |
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| The Murder of Abel (Mactatio Abel) (Towneley Cycle) | |
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| Noah (Chester Cycle) | |
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| The Second Shepherds' Play (Towneley Cycle) | |
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| John heywooda | |
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| Merry play between the pardoner and the friar, the curate and neighbor pratt | |
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| Anonymousthe | |
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| Noble triumphant coronation of queen anne, wife unto the most noble king henry the | |
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| Viii richard mulcasterthe | |
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| Queen's majesty's passage | |
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| Sir philip sidneythe | |
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| Lady of may | |
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| Thomas kyd | |
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| The spanish tragedy | |
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| Christopher marlowe | |
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| The tragical history of d. Faustus | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Arden of faversham | |
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| Christopher marlowe | |
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| The troublesome reign and lamentable death of edward the second | |
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| Mary sidney, countess of pembrokethe | |
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| Tragedy of antony | |
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| Thomas dekker | |
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| The shoemakers' holiday | |
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| John marstonthe | |
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| Malcontent | |
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| Anthony munday | |
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| The triumphs of re-united britannia | |
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| Thomas heywood | |
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| A woman killed with kindness | |
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| Francis beaumont | |
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| The knight of the burning pestle | |
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| Ben jonson | |
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| The masque of queens | |
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| Thomas middleton | |
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| A chaste maid in cheapside | |
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| John webster | |
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| The duchess of malfi | |
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| Ben jonson | |
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| Bartholomew fair | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| The barriers | |
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| Thomas middleton and william rowley | |
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| The changeling | |
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| John ford | |
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| Tis pity she's a whore | |
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| Further background reading | |
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| Appendix: cultural documents | |
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| The Chester Plays | |
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| The Order of Corpus Christi Plays at Chester | |
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| The Late Banns for Performance, Chester | |
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| Anne Boleyn's Entry into London | |
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| The History of a Most Horrible Murder Committed at Favershame in Kent | |
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| On the Prohibition of Plays | |
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| The Case Against Drama | |
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| Stage Plays and Interludes, with their wickedness | |
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| The Life and Raigne of King Edward of Carnarvan | |
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| The infortunate marriage of a Gentleman, called Antonio Bologna, with the Duchess of Malfi, and the pitifull death of them both | |
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| The Creation of Prince Charles | |
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| John Chamberlain, Letter to Dudley Carleton, August 21, 1624 | |
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| Exchequer Accounts, October 1, 1631--September 10, 1632 | |
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| A Survey of the Chambers and Societies of the Inns of Court | |
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| Women's Roles | |
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| Index of titles | |