Adamson, Sylvia (2001) Reading Shakespeare’s dramatic language: a guide. London: Arden Shakespeare.
Agnew, Jean-Christophe (1986) Worlds apart: the market and the theater in Anglo-American thought, 1550-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A.L. (2005) ‘Performing Cross-Class Clandestine Marriage in The Shoemaker’s Holiday’, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 45(2), pp. 333–355.
Arabm R.A. (no date) ‘Work, Bodies and Gender in The Shoemaker’s Holiday’, Medieval and renaissance drama in England, 13.
Bamber, Linda (1982) Comic women, tragic men: a study of gender and genre in Shakespeare. Stanford, Cal: Stanford University Press.
Barber, Cesar Lombardi (1959) Shakespeare’s festive comedy: a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Barton, Anne (1977) Shakespeare and the idea of the play. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
Bevington, David M. et al. (2002) English Renaissance drama: a Norton anthology. London: W.W. Norton.
Bowsher, Julian (2012) Shakespeare’s London theatreland: archaeology, history and drama. London: Museum of London Archaeology.
Braunmuller, A. R. and Hattaway, Michael (2003) The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Briggs, J. (1997) This stage-play world: texts and contexts, 1580-1625. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Briggs, Julia (1997) This stage-play world: texts and contexts, 1580-1625. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bristol, Michael D. (1985) Carnival and theater: plebeian culture and the structure of authority in Renaissance England. London: Methuen.
Carlson, Susan (1991) Women and comedy: rewriting the British theatrical tradition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Carson, Christie and Karim-Cooper, Farah (2008) ‘Introduction’, in Shakespeare’s Globe: a theatrical experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cavell, Stanley (1987) Disowning knowledge, in six plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge: C.U.P.
Champion, L. S. (no date) Shakespeare and Dekker: creative interaction and the form of romantic comedy.
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Dillon, Janette (2006a) The Cambridge introduction to early English theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dillon, Janette (2006b) The Cambridge introduction to early English theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dollimore, Jonathan and Sinfield, Alan (1985) Political Shakespeare: new essays in cultural materialism. Manchester: Manchester U.P.
Drakakis, John (1985) Alternative Shakespeares. London: Methuen.
Dunworth, Felicity Elizabeth (2010) Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Dusinberre, Juliet (2003) Shakespeare and the nature of women. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dutton, Richard and Howard, Jean E. (2003) A companion to Shakespeare’s works: Vol. 3: The comedies. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Gay, Penny (1994) As she likes it: Shakespeare’s unruly women. London: Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kentuk/detail.action?docID=169570.
Griswold, Wendy (1986) Renaissance revivals: city comedy and revenge tragedy in the London theatre, 1576-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gurr, Andrew (2004) ‘The plan of 1594’, in The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hall, Jonathan (1995) Anxious pleasures: Shakespearean comedy and the nation-state. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Harris, Jonathan Gil and Korda, Natasha (2002) ‘Introduction: towards a materialist account of stage properties’, in Staged properties in early modern English drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Howard, J E. (1984) Shakespeare’s art of orchestration: stage technique and audience response. [Place of publication not identified]: U. of Illinois P.
Howard, Jean Elizabeth (1994) The stage and social struggle in early modern England. London: Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kentuk/detail.action?docID=179419.
Jardine, Lisa (1983) Still harping on daughters: women and drama in the Age of Shakespeare. Sussex, England: Barnes & Noble.
Jardine, Lisa (1996) Reading Shakespeare historically. London: Routledge.
Joughin, John J. (1997) Shakespeare and national culture. Manchester: Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin’s Press.
Kastan, David Scott and Stallybrass, Peter (1991) Staging the Renaissance: reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. London: Routledge.
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Knowles, Ronald (1998) Shakespeare and carnival: after Bakhtin. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
Krieger, Elliot (1979) A Marxist study of Shakespeare’s comedies. London: Macmillan.
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Leggatt, Alexander (1998) English stage comedy, 1490-1990: five centuries of a genre. London: Routledge.
Leggatt, Alexander (2002) The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://library.kent.ac.uk/cgi-bin/resources.cgi?url=http://cco.cambridge.org/login2%3Fdest%3D%252Fbook%253Fid%253Dccol0521770440_CCOL0521770440.
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Mahood, M. M. (no date) Shakespeare’s wordplay. London: Methuen.
Marcus, Leah S. (1988) Puzzling Shakespeare: local reading and its discontents. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press.
Martin, Mathew R. (2001) Between theater and philosophy: skepticism in the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. London: Associated University Presses.
Maynard, S. (1998) ‘Feasting on Eyre: Community, Consumption and Communion in The Shoemaker’s Holiday’, Comparative drama, 32(3), pp. 327–346.
McDonald, Russ (1988) Shakespeare and Jonson: Jonson and Shakespeare. Lincoln, Neb: U. of Nebraska P.
McLuskie, Kathleen (1994) Dekker and Heywood: professional dramatists. Basingstoke: St. Martin’s Press.
Mendelson, Sara Heller and Crawford, Patricia (1998) Women in early modern England, 1550-1720. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miola, Robert S. (1994) Shakespeare and classical comedy: the influence of Plautus and Terence. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Mortenson, P. (no date) ‘The Economics of Joy in The Shoemakers’ Holiday’, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 16(2), pp. 241–252.
Nevo, R. (1980) Comic transformations in Shakespeare. [Place of publication not identified]: Methuen.
Newman, K. (1985) Shakespeare’s rhetoric of comic character: dramatic convention in classical and Renaissance comedy. [Place of publication not identified]: Methuen.
Novarr, D. (no date) ‘Dekker’s Gentle Craft and the Lord Mayor of London’, Modern Philology , 57(4), pp. 233–239.
Ornstein, Robert (1986) Shakespeare’s comedies: from Roman farce to romantic mystery. London: Associated University Presses.
Parker, P. (1985) Shakespeare and the question of theory; ed P Parker and G Hartman. New York: Methuen. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kentuk/detail.action?docID=179172.
Purcell, Stephen (2009) Popular Shakespeare: simulation and subversion on the modern stage. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rowland, Richard (2010) Thomas Heywood’s theatre, 1599-1639. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Shakespeare, William et al. (2008) The Norton Shakespeare: based on the Oxford edition. 2nd ed., International student ed. London: W. W. Norton.
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Straznicky, M. (no date) ‘The End(s) of Discord in The Shoemaker’s Holiday’, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 36(2), pp. 357–372.
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