Shakespeare [and others], King Edward III (2017)

William Shakespeare [and others].
King Edward the Third.
Edited by Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett.
The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series.
London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series; Wikipedia.

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In their Introduction Proudfoot and Bennett summarize the scholarship regarding the collaborative authorship of Edward III. Scholars speculate that Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) wrote the initial draft, perhaps with Thomas Kyd (1558–1594). Other co-author candidates include Thomas Nashe (1567–c.1601) and Robert Greene (1558–1592). Shakespeare is thought to have revised and written sections of Edward III, especially Scenes 2 and 3 (the generally ahistorical Countess episode) and Scene 12. In recent decades n-gram analysis has contributed to the evidence of Marlowe's and Shakespeare's involvement with the play. However, the novice reader can easily recognize the distinctively Shakespearean language of the Countess episode and Scene 12.

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Some Other Recent Editions of Edward III:

• Shakespeare's Edward III: An Early Play Restored to the Canon, Edited by Eric Sams, Yale University Press, 1996.
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Edited by Giorgio Melchiori, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• in The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Second Edition, Edited by John Jowett, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, Stanley Wells, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• in William Shakespeare & Others: Collaborative Plays, The RSC Shakespeare, Edited by Eric Rasmussen and Jonathan Bate, 2013.
• in The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, Edited by Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, Gabriel Egan, Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare and Edward III:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• William Shakespeare, Edward III, first printed 1596.
• Shakespearean history.
• Shakespeare apocrypha.

Sources for Edward III:

• Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405), Froissart's Chronicles, Fourteenth Century.
  • The Chronicle of Froissart. Translated by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners. Introduction by William Paton Ker. In Six Volumes. London: David Nutt, 1901-1903. First published in 1523–1525.
    [Archive.org: Vol 1 of 6; Vol 2 of 6; Vol 3 of 6; Vol 4 of 6; Vol 5 of 6; Vol 6 of 6.]
  • John Froissart. Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Translated by Thomas Johnes. In Two Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
    [Archive.org: Vol 1 of 2; Vol 2 of 2.]
  • Jean Froissart. Chronicles. Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
    [Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Painter (c.1540–1595), The Palace of Pleasure, 1566; second edition 1575.
• Raphael Holinshed (c.1525–1580?), Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577; revised 1587.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

Historical Events:

• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.
• England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry III until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
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• Wars of Scottish Independence, late Thirteenth and early Fourteenth Centuries.
• Auld Alliance, alliance between Scotland and France, 1295–1560.
• First War of Scottish Independence, 1296–1328.
• Second War of Scottish Independence, 1332–1357.
• Second War of Scottish Independence: Edward III invades: 1333 – 1334.
• Siege of Berwick (1333).
• Battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346; the English capture David II.
• Treaty of Berwick (1357).
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• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major phases:
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
• Battle of Sluys, 24 June 1340.
• Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.
• Siege of Calais (1346–1347).
• Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356.
• Jacquerie, northern France peasant revolt, 1358.
• Treaty of Brétigny, drafted on 8 May 1360, ratified on 24 October 1360.

Historical People:

• Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
• Philippa of Hainault (c.1310/1315–1369), wife of Edward III; Queen consort of England 1328–1369.
• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II).
• Joan of Kent (1326/7–1385); wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard of Bordeaux (1367–1400), Richard II of England.
• Order of the Garter, established in 1348 by Edward III.
• Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury (c.1304–1349).
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• Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), King of Scotland 1306–1329.
• David II of Scotland (1324–1371), King of Scotland 1329–1371; David was captured by the English at the Battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346 and ransomed in 1357 (Treaty of Berwick (1357)).
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• Philip VI of France (1293–1350), King of France 1328–1350; House of Valois.
• John II of France (1319–1364), King of France 1350–1364; captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
• Charles V of France (1338–1380), Dauphin 1350–1364; King of France 1364–1380.

For more on this period of English history see my post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966).

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Some Historical Background Reading:

• John Julius Norwich. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337–1485. New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes. The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966) is here.
• M.H. Keen. England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Desmond Seward. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Seward, The Hundred Years War (1999) is here.
• Jean Froissart. Chronicles. Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
  [Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Froissart, Chronicles (1978) is here.
• Scott L. Waugh. England in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Waugh, England in the Reign of Edward III (1991) is here.
• Christopher Allmand. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300–c.1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Other Articles:

• Petr Plechac, "Relative contributions of Shakespeare and Fletcher in Henry VIII: An Analysis Based on Most Frequent Words and Most Frequent Rhythmic Patterns," arXiv.org, 30 October 2019.

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Waugh, England in the Reign of Edward III (1991)

Scott L. Waugh.
England in the Reign of Edward III.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.

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Author Information:

• Scott L. Waugh (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
• Scott Waugh, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:

• England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry III until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
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• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Feudalism in England.
• Bastard feudalism, a Nineteenth Century historian's description of English feudalism as it decayed in the Late Middle Ages.
• Medieval English wool trade.
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• 1310s in England.
• 1320s in England.
• 1330s in England.
• 1340s in England.
• 1350s in England.
• 1360s in England.
• 1370s in England.
• 1380s in England.
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• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (famine, plague, social unrest).
• Great Famine of 1315–1317.
• Black Death, peak years 1347–1351.
• Black Death in England, reached England in June 1348;
  recurred in England 1361−1362 ("Second Pestilence" or "Pestilence of the Children"),
  1369, 1375, 1471, 1479–1480, 1603-1611, 1665–1666.
  (Second plague pandemic.)
• Consequences of the Black Death.
• Statute of Labourers 1351.
• Deserted medieval village.
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski, "The Black Death," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 May 2008.
• Richard Evans, "The Great Plagues: The Black Death," Gresham College, 25 September 2012.
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• Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
• Philippa of Hainault (c.1310/1315–1369), wife of Edward III; Queen consort of England 1328–1369.
• Alice Perrers (1348–1400).
• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard II.
• Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), second son of Edward III; the House of York descended from Lionel and his brother Edmund.
• John of Gaunt (1340–1399), Duke of Lancaster; third son of Edward III; the House of Lancaster descended from John of Gaunt.
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), fourth son of Edward III; ; the House of York descended from Edmund and his brother Lionel.
• Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), fifth son of Edward III.
• Blanche of Lancaster (1342–1368), daughter of Henry of Grosmont; first wife of John of Gaunt; mother of Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV of England).
• Katherine Swynford (c.1350–1403), third wife of John of Gaunt; mother of children with John of Gaunt who would become the House of Beaufort.
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• William de la Pole (d. 1366), wool merchant, financier, royal moneylender, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1339–13##.
• Reginald de Cobham (c.1295–1361), Knight.
• John Chandos (c.1320–1369), Knight.
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• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major phases:
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
• Battle of Sluys, 24 June 1340.
• Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.
• Siege of Calais (1346–1347).
• Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356.
• Treaty of Brétigny, drafted at Brétigny on 8 May 1360, ratified on 24 October 1360 as the Treaty of Calais.
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• Peasants' Revolt, 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising.
  • John Ball (c.1338–1381).
  • Wat Tyler (d. 1381).
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron, Alastair Dunn, "The Peasants' Revolt," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2006.
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• John Gower (c.1330–1408).
• William Langland (c.1332–c.1386). Piers Plowman, c.1370–1390.
  Piers Plowman tradition.
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400), courtier, diplomat, bureaucrat, poet.
  • The Book of the Duchess, composed 1368 to early-1370s.
  • Troilus and Criseyde, composed mid-1380s.
  • The Canterbury Tales, composed late-1380s to 1400.
• Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield, "Chaucer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 9 Feb 2006.
• Gawain Poet (Fourteenth Century).
• Melvyn Bragg, Laura Ashe, Ad Putter, Simon Armitage, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 13 Dec 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
• John Wycliffe (1320s–1384).
  Wycliffe's Bible, 1382–1395.
• Lollardy, the Lollard movement, mid-Fourteenth Century.
• Melvyn Bragg, Anthony Kenny, Anne Hudson, Rob Lutton, "Wyclif and the Lollards," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2011.
• The Lollard Society.

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Froissart, Chronicles (1978)

Jean Froissart.
Chronicles.
Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

Book Information: Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Penguin Classics.

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The Online Froissart, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.

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Wikipedia Articles and Other Items:

• Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405).
• Froissart's Chronicles.
• Geoffrey Brereton (1906–1979).
• W. P. Ker (1855–1923), "Froissart", in Essays in Medieval Literature, London: Macmillan & Co., 1905, pages 135-238.
  [Archive.org.]

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Copies of an early and well known English translation of Froissart's Chronicles by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, first published in 1523–1525, are available at Archive.org:

• The Chronicles of Froissart.
  Translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
  Edited by G.C. Macaulay.
  In One Volume.
  The Globe Edition.
  London: Macmillan and Co., 1904.
  (First published in 1895.)
• The Chronicle of Froissart.
  Translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
  Introduction by William Paton Ker.
  In Six Volumes.
  London: David Nutt, 1901-1903.
  Vol 1 of 6; Vol 2 of 6; Vol 3 of 6; Vol 4 of 6; Vol 5 of 6; Vol 6 of 6.
  (This edition has Berners's original Sixteenth Century English.)
• John Froissart.
  Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV.
  Translated by Thomas Johnes.
  In Two Volumes.
  London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
  Vol 1 of 2; Vol 2 of 2.
  (This edition has some nice color illustrations along with its relatively newer translation.)

My additional motive for mentioning these other editions of Froissart's Chronicles, aside from their intrinsic interest, is as follows. In the Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition Geoffrey Brereton observes that his edition is "a selection covering less than one-sixth of the total length of the Chronicles" (page 27).

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Seward, The Hundred Years War (1999)

Desmond Seward.
The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453.
New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
(First published in 1978.)

Book Information: Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Desmond Seward (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
• Desmond Seward | Official Website – Personal Website, www.desmondseward.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major phases:
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.

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Shakespeare, King John (2008)

William Shakespeare.
The Life and Death of King John.
Edited by A. R. Braunmuller.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
(This edition first published in 1989.)

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some Other Current Editions of King John:

• The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, Edited by J.J.M. Tobin and Jesse M. Lander.
• The Arden Shakespeare, Second Series, Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann.
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.
• The Pelican Shakespeare, Edited by Claire McEachern.
• Penguin Classics UK, Edited by R. L. Smallwood.
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Edited by L. A. Beaurline.
• The RSC Shakespeare, Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen.
• Signet Classics Shakespeare, Edited by Sylvan Barnet.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare and King John:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• William Shakespeare, King John, 1595-1596.
• Shakespearean history.

Sources for King John:

• John Bale (1495–1563), Kynge Johan, c.1538.
• Raphael Holinshed (c.1525–1580?), Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577; revised 1587.
• unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, c.1589.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

Historical Events:

• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.
• England in the High Middle Ages, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the death of King John in 1216.
• Philip II of France: Conflict with King John, 1200–1206.
• Anglo-French War (1213–1214).
• First Barons' War, 1215–1217.
• Magna Carta, 15 June 1215.
• Battle of Lincoln (1217), 20 May 1217.
• Battle of Sandwich (1217), 24 August 1217, also called the Battle of Dover.
• Treaty of Lambeth, 1217.

Historical People:

• Angevin kings of England (Henry II, Richard I, John).
• Henry II of England (1133–1189), Henry Curtmantle, Henry FitzEmpress, Henry Plantagenet; King of England 1154–1189.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122/1124–1204), Duchess of Aquitaine 1137–1204; Queen consort of France 1137–1152; Queen consort of England 1154–1189.
• William Marshal (1146/1147–1219), Knight; Earl of Pembroke 1189–1219; Protector of Henry III.
• Richard I of England (1157–1199), Richard Cœur de Lion or Richard the Lionheart; King of England 1189–1199.
• Hubert Walter (c.1160–1205), Chief Justiciar of England 1193–1198; Lord Chancellor 1199–1205; Archbishop of Canterbury 1193–1205.
• John, King of England (1166–1216), John Lackland; King of England 1199–1216.
• Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–1203), son of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Constance, Duchess of Brittany. His father, Geoffrey, was a son of Henry II.
• Philip II of France (1165–1223), King of France 1180–1223.
• Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (c.1170–1243).
• Louis VIII of France (1187–1226), Louis the Lion; appears as "Louis the Dauphin" in the play King John; King of France 1223–1226.
• Robert Fitzwalter (d.1235), "the leader of the baronial opposition against King John, and one of the twenty-five sureties of Magna Carta".
• Stephen Langton (c.1350–1228), Archbishop of Canterbury 1205–1228.
• Henry III of England (1207–1272), King of England 1216–1272.

For more on this period of English history see my post for Brooke, From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 (1966).

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Brown, Geoffrey Chaucer (2011)

Peter Brown.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Authors in Context, Oxford World's Classics.

In 2019 this book was out-of-print.
It appears that publication of the Authors in Context series has ceased.

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Author Information:

• Professor Peter Brown, School of English, University of Kent.
• Note: Professor Peter Brown, Professor of Medieval English Literature, is not the Historian of Late Antiquity Peter Brown.
• Peter Brown. Chaucer at Work: The Making of The Canterbury Tales. Longman Group Ltd., 1994. Abington: Routledge, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Brown. Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Brown. Reading Chaucer: Selected Essays. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Brown, editor. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Brown, editor. A Companion to Chaucer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Brown, editor. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400).
• Middle English literature.
• English literature.
• History of England: 14th century.

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Some Websites on Chaucer and Middle English Literature:

• Chaucer Metapage.
• Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website.
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature, by Anniina Jokinen.
• The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, Georgetown University.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
• Middle English Compendium, University of Michigan Library.
• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library.
• TEAMS - Teaching Association for Medieval Studies.
• TEAMS Middle English Texts series.
• The ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies by Kathryn Talarico at Arlima.net.
• The World of Chaucer, a 2004 exhibit at University of Glasgow.

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Guy, Tudor England (1988)

John Guy.
Tudor England.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 (paperback 1990).

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• John Guy (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
• John Guy | Tudor history, www.johnguy.co.uk.
• Dr John Guy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
• List of Books by John Guy at www.johnguy.co.uk.
• John Guy. Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker. London: Profile Books, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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Video and Audio: John Guy

• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter, "The Tudor State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Oct 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Steven Gunn, John Guy, Penny Roberts, "The Field of the Cloth of Gold," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 Oct 2005.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett, "The Death of Elizabeth I," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2009.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Guy, Maria Hayward, "Holbein at the Tudor Court," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Melvyn Bragg, David Forsyth, Anna Groundwater, John Guy, "Mary, Queen of Scots," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 Jan 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Susan Doran, John Guy, "William Cecil," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Mar 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
• John Guy, "Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019," Gresham College, 13 June 2019.

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:

• See my post for Elton, England under the Tudors, 2e (1974).

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Elton, England under the Tudors, 2e (1974)

G. R. Elton.
England under the Tudors.
London: Methuen and Co., 1955.
Second Edition. London: Methuen and Co., 1974. {I read the 1974 edition.}
Third Edition. Abingdon: Routledge, 1991.
London: The Folio Society, 1999.
Routledge Classics. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com 2018.

Book Series: A History of England, Volume 4, Methuen.
Also: A History of England, Volume 5, The Folio Society.

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Video:

• "Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses G.R. Elton’s England Under the Tudors," Taylor & Francis Books, 31 May 2018.

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Author Information:

• Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Wikipedia.
• G. R. Elton. The Tudor Revolution in Government: A Study of Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Star Chamber Stories. London: Methuen and Co., 1958. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton, editor. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. (First edition 1960.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Reformation Europe: 1517-1559, Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 1999. (First edition 1963.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. The Practice of History, Second Edition. Fontana, 1969. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Reform and Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert William Fogel and G. R. Elton. Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. F.W. Maitland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. The Parliament of England, 1559-1581. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton, editor. The Reformation, 1520-1559, Second Edition. Volume 2 in The New Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Geoffrey Elton. The English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972: Volume 1. Tudor Politics, Tudor Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972, Volume 2. Parliament Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 3. Papers and Reviews 1973–1981. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 4. Papers and Reviews 1982–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Delloyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna, editors. Tudor Rule and Revolution: Essays for G R Elton from His American Friends. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:

• Early modern Britain, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• Tudor period, 1485-1603.
• English Renaissance, late Fifteenth Century to early Seventeenth Century.
• Anglo-Scottish Wars.
• TudorHistory.org, tudorhistory.org.

Business, Economy, etc.:

• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th century.
• Price revolution of the Sixteenth Century.
• Medieval English wool trade.
• The Staple.
• Intercursus Magnus, a commercial treaty signed February 1496 by Henry VII, Philip IV of Burgundy, Venice, Florence, the Netherlands, and the Hanseatic League.
• Merchants of the Staple, English exporters, especially of wool.
• Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
• History of the English fiscal system.
• Statute of Artificers 1563.
• Poor relief: Tudor era.
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• Hanseatic League, established 1358, diminished slowly after 1450.
• Michael Portillo, "The Hanseatic League," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 21 Dec 2009.
• Neil MacGregor, "Holbein and the Hansa," Germany: Memories of a Nation, BBC Radio 4, 16 Oct 2014.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Evelyn Welch, Robert Black, Catherine Fletcher, "The Medici," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, Boxing Day 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
• Florence: Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Republic of Florence, 1115–1532.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• House of Medici.
• Medici Bank, 1397–1494.
• Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464).
• Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), Lorenzo the Magnificent; grandson of Cosimo de' Medici.
• Pazzi conspiracy of 1478.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559.
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• Thomas Gresham (c.1519–1579), merchant, financier.
• Royal Exchange, London; Gresham's Exchange opened 1568; renamed the Royal Exchange in 1571.
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• Tudor Festival: Sir Thomas Gresham and His World Lecture Series, Gresham College, 2019.
  • Ian Archer, "Sir Thomas Gresham, London and Europe," Gresham College, 09 January 2019.
  • Steve Jones, "Evolution Since Sir Thomas Gresham," Gresham College, 29 January 2019.
  • Nandini Das, "Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade and the Metamorphosis of England," Gresham College, 06 February 2019.
  • Joseph Silk, "How Astronomy Changed our View of the Cosmos: From Gresham to the 21st Century," Gresham College, 6 March 2019.
  • Margaret Willes, "Gresham's Bequest to Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn," Gresham College, 11 March 2019.
    • Margaret Willes. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
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  • Carolyn Roberts, "The Natural Environment of Tudor London," Gresham College, 10 April 2019.
  • Chris Budd, "500 Years of Mathematics," Gresham College, 30 April 2019.
  • Stephen Alford, "Gresham's Exchange," Gresham College, 08 May 2019.
  • John Guy, "Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019," Gresham College, 13 June 2019.
    • John Guy. Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker. London: Profile Books, 2019.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]
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• Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), Italian Jesuit priest who translated knowledge between China and Europe.
• Ming dynasty, 1368–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, Mary Laven, Craig Clunas, Anne Gerritsen, "Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Apr 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• East India Company, founded 1600.
• Melvyn Bragg, Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra, "The East India Company," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Jun 2003.

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Henry VII:

• Henry VII of England (1457–1509), Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 1457–1509; King of England 1485–1509.
• House of Tudor.
• Elizabeth of York (1466–1503), daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville; wife of Henry VII, and thus the first Tudor queen; mother of Henry VIII.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter, "The Tudor State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Oct 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Norman Davies, Andrew Marr, "The Nation State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Oct 1999.
• Cornish rebellion of 1497.

Henry VIII:

• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), King of England 1509–1547.
• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530), Lord Chancellor 1515–1529.
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• Treaty of London (1518).
• Field of the Cloth of Gold, summit and tournament field, June 1520.
• Siege of Vienna, 1529.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), Holy Roman Emperor 1519–1556; King of Castile and Aragon 1516–1556; head of the House of Habsburg.
• Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France 1515–1547.
• Melvyn Bragg, Steven Gunn, John Guy, Penny Roberts, "The Field of the Cloth of Gold," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 Oct 2005.
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• Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor 1529–1532.
• Thomas Cromwell (c.1485–1540), leading councillor of Henry VIII during the 1530s.
• Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473–1554), Lord High Treasurer 1522–1546.
• Acts of Supremacy, 1534, 1558.
• Pilgrimage of Grace, October 1536 – October 1537, widespread rising in the north.
• Privy Council of England.
• Star Chamber.

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Protestant Reformation:

• Erasmus (1466–1536), lived in England 14##–14##/150# and 1510–1515.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Eamon Duffy, Jill Kraye, "Erasmus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Feb 2012.
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• Protestant Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• Martin Luther (1483–1546). Ninety-five Theses, 1517.
• Diet of Worms, 1521.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen, "The Diet of Worms," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Oct 2006.
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• English Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• English Reformation Parliament, 1529–1536.
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1530s–1540s.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Mar 2008.
• Michael Sherbrook's account of the spoliation of Roche, The Cistercians of Yorkshire.
• Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire.
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• William Tyndale (c.1494–1536).
• Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury 1533–1555.
• Book of Common Prayer, 1549, 1552.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Alexandra Walsham, Martin Palmer, "The Book of Common Prayer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Oct 2013.
• The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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• Richard Cox (c.1500–1581).
• John Knox (c.1513–1572).
• William Whittingham (c.1524–1579).
• Troubles at Frankfurt, mid-1550s, among British Marian exiles.
• Geneva Bible, 1557–1560.
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• John Foxe (1516/1517–1587). Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), 1563.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Justin Champion, Elizabeth Evenden, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Nov 2010.
• John Foxe. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives. Edited by John N. King. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Siege of Münster, February 1534 – June 1535.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen, Lucy Wooding, "The Siege of Munster," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 05 Nov 2009.
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• John Calvin (1509–1564).
• Calvinism.
• History of Geneva: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore, Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Calvinism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Feb 2010.
• Puritans.
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• Council of Trent, 1545–1563.
• Counter-Reformation.
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• French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598.
• Huguenots.
• Catholic League.
• House of Guise.
• St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 23–24 August 1572.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass, Penny Roberts, "St Bartholomew's Day Massacre," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Nov 2003.
• Henry II of France (1519–1559), King of France 1547–1559.
• Francis II of France (1544–1560), King of France 1559–1560.
• Charles IX of France (1550–1574), King of France 1560–1574.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559; Regent 1560–1563.
• Henry III of France (1551–1589), King of France 1574–1589.
• Henry IV of France (1553–1610), Henry of Navarre; King of Navarre 1572–1610; King of France 1589–1610.
• Margaret of Valois (1553–1615), daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici; married Henry of Navarre on 18 August 1572.
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• Witchcraft.
• European witchcraft.
• Witchcraft in Britain.
• Witchcraft Acts, 1542; 1563; Scottish 1563; 1604; 1649; 1735.
• Witch trials in the early modern period.
• Melvyn Bragg, Alison Rowlands, Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill, "Witchcraft," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Oct 2004.
• Heinrich Kramer (c.1430–1505). Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), 1487.
• Little Ice Age, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; also dated as about 1300 to about 1850.
• James VI of Scotland (1566–1625). Daemonologie, 1597.
• Matthew Hopkins (c.1620–1647), "an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War".
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• Pelagius (c.360–418).
• Pelagianism: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, John Milbank, "The Pelagian Controversy," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Apr 2011.
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• Spanish Inquisition, established 01 November 1478.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert, "The Spanish Inquisition," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 Jun 2006.
• Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade, 1209–1229.
• Catharism.
• Historical revision of the Inquisition.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, David Wootton, Sarah Barber, "Toleration," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 May 2004.

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Art:

• Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497–1543).
• List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Guy, Maria Hayward, "Holbein at the Tudor Court," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Danse Macabre.
• Hans Holbein. The Dance of Death. Commentary by Ulinka Rublack. London: Penguin Classics, 2016.
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• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/1530–1569). The Fight Between Carnival And Lent, 1559.
• Melvyn Bragg, Louise Milne, Jeanne Nuechterlein, Miri Rubin, "Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Jan 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516).
• Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570).
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• Book of Judith.
• Judith beheading Holofernes.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Gash, Ela Nutu Hall, "Judith beheading Holofernes," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Simon Thurley, "Painting, Patronage and Politics under the Tudors," Gresham College, 19 September 2018.
• Simon Thurley, "Architecture, Images and Image-Making under the Stuarts," Gresham College, 30 January 2019.
  (Despite the title the lecture includes some mention of the Tudor period.)
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• Artists of the Tudor court.
• Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547–1619).
• Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617).
• Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England.

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Edward VI and Mary I:

• Edward VI of England (1537–1553), King of England 1547–1553.
• Kett's Rebellion, July – August, 1549.
• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500–1552), Lord Protector of England 1547–1549.
• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553), Lord Protector of England 1550–1553.
• Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), Lady Jane Dudley, wife of John Dudley's son.
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• Mary I of England (1516–1558), Mary Tudor, "Bloody Mary"; Queen of England 1553–1558.
• Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), Lord Chancellor 1553–1555.
• English Reformation: Marian Restoration.
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland, King of England 1554–1558 as husband of Queen Mary.
• Wyatt's rebellion, 1554.
  Thomas Wyatt the Younger.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.

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Elizabeth I:

• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603), Elizabeth Tudor; Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Act of Uniformity 1558.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 1559.
• William Cecil (1520–1598), Lord Burghley; Secretary of State 1550–1553 and 1558–1572; Lord High Treasurer 1572–1598.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Susan Doran, John Guy, "William Cecil," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Mar 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
• Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590).
• Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• Christopher Hatton (1540–1591), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• John Whitgift (c.1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury 1583–1604.
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600). Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594; 1597.
• William Harrison (1534–1593). Description of England, 1577; 1587.
  • William Harrison. The Description of England. Edited by George Edelen. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library; and New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
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• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598), Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands 1555–1598; King of Spain 1556–1598; King of Portugal 1581–1598.
• Dutch Revolt against Roman Catholic Habsburg rule, 1568–1648.
• Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence 1568–1648.
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• Battle of Lepanto, 07 October 1571.
• Holy League (1571).
• Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• Ottoman Empire: Expansion and peak (1453–1566).
• Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1566.
• Transformation of the Ottoman Empire, 1566–1703.
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573).
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kate Fleet, Noel Malcolm, "The Battle of Lepanto," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Nov 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Mary Stuart; Queen of Scotland 1542–1567.
• Rising of the North, Northern Rebellion, 1569.
• Ridolfi plot, 1571.
• Melvyn Bragg, David Forsyth, Anna Groundwater, John Guy, "Mary, Queen of Scots," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 Jan 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), a prominent Puritan leader in Parliament.
• History of the Puritans under Queen Elizabeth I.
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• Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland.
• Spanish Armada, 1588.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diane Purkiss, Mia Rodriguez-Salgado, Nicholas Rodger, "The Spanish Armada," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Oct 2010.
• For more on the Spanish Armada see my post for Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959; 2002).
• English Armada, 1589.
• Michael Portillo, "The English Armada," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 04 Dec 2011.
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• John Cabot (c.1450–c.1500).
• Sebastian Cabot (c.1474–1557).
• John Hawkins (1532–1595).
• Martin Frobisher (c.1535–1594).
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536–1624), Lord High Admiral.
• Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539–1583).
• Francis Drake (c.1540–1596).
• Richard Grenville (1542–1591).
• Walter Raleigh (c.1552/1554–1618).
• Richard Hakluyt (1553–1616).
  • Richard Hakluyt. Voyages and Discoveries. (The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation.) Edited by Jack Beeching. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1972.
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• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601).
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• Tudor conquest of Ireland.
• Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), son of William Cecil; high official during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
• Edward Coke (1552–1634), Solicitor General 1592–1594; Speaker of the House of Commons 1593–1594; Attorney General 1594–1606; and higher offices during the reign of James I.
  • Edward Coke, Institutes of the Lawes of England, 1628–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett, "The Death of Elizabeth I," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2009.

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James I of England:

• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.

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Renaissance, Literature, Philosophy, etc.:

• Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Northern Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• Melvyn Bragg, Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Burke, Evelyn Welch, "The Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 08 Jun 2000.
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French historian.
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897). The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1860.
• Melvyn Bragg, Tom Healy, Charles Hope, Evelyn Welch, "Paganism in the Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2005.
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• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527).
• Melvyn Bragg, Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch, Lisa Jardine, "Machiavelli and the Italian City States," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Dec 2004.
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• French Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• French Renaissance literature.
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592).
• Melvyn Bragg, David Wootton, Terence Cave, Felicity Green, "Montaigne," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Apr 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
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• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.
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• Tottel's Miscellany, 1557.
• Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others. Edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517–1547).
• Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542).
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• Thomas Elyot (c.1490–1546).
• Roger Ascham (c.1515–1568).
• John Dee (1527–1608/1609).
• Thomas Norton (1532–1584).
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608).
• Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599).
• John Florio (1553–1625).
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586).
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594).
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Thomas Nashe (1567–c.1601).
• Thomas Campion (1567–1620).
• John Donne (1572–1631).
• Ben Jonson (1572–1637).
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627).
• John Webster (c.1580–c.1634).
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• Revenge play.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Jun 2009.
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594). The Spanish Tragedy, 1582–1592.
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
  • Titus Andronicus, 1588–1593.
  • Hamlet, 1599–1602.
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627). The Revenger's Tragedy, 1606.
• Four Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Katharine Eisaman Maus. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Three Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Gamini Salgado. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Five Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Emma Smith. London: Penguin Classics, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith, "Marlowe," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Jul 2005.
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• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo, "Shakespeare's Life," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2001.
• Melvyn Bragg, Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer, "Shakespeare's Work," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel, Patrick Gray, "Is Shakespeare History? The Romans," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Francis Bacon (1561–1626).
• Melvyn Bragg, Patricia Fara, Stephen Pumfrey, Rhodri Lewis, "Baconian Science," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 02 Apr 2009.

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Some Other BBC Radio 4 Series on Tudor / Elizabethan Topics:

• Discovery of England.
• This Sceptred Isle: Empire.
• Elizabethan Subjects.

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