uce, F. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners. 1839.
An English Garner. New ed., 1903. See vols.: Social England Illustrated;
Tudor Tracts, 1532-1582; Stuart Tracts, 1603-1693.
Froude, J. A. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat
of the Armada. 1856-1870. Reprinted in Everyman's Library.
Gildersleeve, V. Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama. New
York, 1908.
Hall, H. Society in the Elizabethan Age. 4th ed., 1901.
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire litteraire du peuple Anglais. Paris, 1904.
English trans., 1909. See especially vol. ii, book v, chap. i.
Lee, S. Stratford-on-Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of
Shakespeare. 1907.
---- An Account of Shakespeare's England, a survey of social life and
conditions in the Elizabethan age (in preparation).
Nicholls, J. The Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth. New ed.,
3 vols., 1823.
---- The Progresses, Processions, and Festivities of King James I. 4
vols., 1828.
Stephenson, H. T. Shakespeare's London. New York, 1905.
---- The Elizabethan People. New York, 1910.
Strutt, J. Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. 1801. New ed.,
1903.
Thompson, E. N. S. The Controversy between the Puritans and the Stage.
Yale Studies in English, vol. xx. New York, 1903.
Traill, H. D. Social England. 3d ed., 1904. See vols. iii and iv.
Wakeman, H. O. The Church and the Puritans, 1570-1660. New ed., 1902.
Wheatley, H. B. London Past and Present. 3 vols. 1891.
CHAPTER II
BIOGRAPHICAL FACTS AND TRADITIONS
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. 2 vols.
7th ed., 1887. Later eds. are reprints. With illustrations, facsimiles,
and a full collection of documents.
Lambert, D. H. Shakespeare Documents. (Published originally as Cartae
Shakespeareanae, 1904.) A chronological catalogue of extant evidence.
Lee, Sidney. A Life of William Shakespeare, London and New York, 1898.
New and revised ed., 1909.
---- Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, Chap. III in Shakespeare and the
Modern Stage, 1906.
The preceding are the most important books, but the following are useful
in various ways: William Shakespeare. K. Elze. Halle, 1876. Eng. trans,
by L. D. Schmitz, 1888. A Chronicle History of the Life and Works of
Shakspere. F. G. Fleay. London, 1886. Shakespeare's Marriage. J. W.
Gray. 1905. Shakespeare's Family. C. C. Stopes. 1901. Shakespeare's
Warwickshire Contemporaries. C. C. Stopes. 1907.
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