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History in Literature: The Renaissance - Theatre and Crisis, 1632–1642. By Martin Butler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xii + 340. - Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. By Jonathan Dollimore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 312. - James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries. By Jonathan Goldberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. xx + 292. - Literature and the Discovery of Method in the English Renaissance. By Patrick Grant. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Pp. x + 188. - Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. By Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. x + 322. - Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts. By Margot Heinemann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 300. - Shakespeare's History. By Graham Holderness. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1985. Pp. xii + 243. - Society and History in English Renaissance Verse. By Lauro Martines. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. viii + 191. - Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England. By Annabel Patterson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. x + 283. - Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature. By Laura Caroline Stevenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 252.
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- Journal of British Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1: England's Foreign Relations , January 1987 , pp. 107 - 123
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