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Andrews, 21–40. New York: Scribner, 1985.

Harrison, William.
Description of England.
Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968.

Hughes, Charles. “Land Travel.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and
Manners of His Age,
1.198–223. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.

Kassell, Lauren.
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer,
Alchemist, and Physician.
Oxford: Clarendon, 2005.

Knobel, E. B., Robert Steele, Percy Simpson, C. T. Onions, and Sir William T. Thisel-ton-Dyer, “The Sciences.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and
Manners of His Age,
1.444–515. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.

Laughton, “The Navy.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and Manners
of His Age,
1.141–69. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.

MacDonald, Michael. “Science, Magic, and Folklore.” In
William Shakespeare: His
World, His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World,
ed. John F. Andrews, 175– 94. New York: Scribner, 1985.

Ortelius, Abraham.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
[1606]. London: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968.

Palliser, D. M.
The Age of Elizabeth.
London and New York: Longman, 1992.

Platter, Thomas.
Thomas Platter’s Travels in England 1599.
Translated by Clare Williams. London: J. Cape, 1937.

Quinn, David. “Travel by Sea and Land.” In
William Shakespeare: His World, His
Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World,
ed. John F. Andrews, 195–200. New York: Scribner, 1985.

Thomas, Keith.
Religion and the Decline of Magic.
New York: Scribner, 1971.

NOVELS

A fair number of novels have been set in Elizabethan England below are some of the more recent ones. An extensive list can be found in John A.

Wagner,
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World
(Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999).

Buckley, Fiona.
The Doublet Affair.
New York: Scribner, 1998.

Classifi ed Bibliographies

267

Burgess, Anthony.
A Dead Man in Deptford.
London: Hutchinson, 1993.

Burgess, Anthony.
Nothing Like the Sun.
New York: Norton, 1996.

Chisolm, P.F.A.
A Surfeith of Guns.
New York: Walker, 1997.

Cowell, Stephanie.
Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Poet.
New York: Norton, 1993.

Cowell, Stephanie.
The Players.
New York: Norton, 1997.

Emerson, Kathy Lynn.
Face Down upon an Herbal.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Finney, Patricia.
Firedrake’s Eye.
London: St Martin’s Press, 1991.

Finney, Patricia.
Unicorn’s Blood.
London: St Martin’s Press, 1998.

Garrett, George.
The Succession. A Novel of Elizabeth and James.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.

Garrett, George.
Death of the Fox.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Harper, Karen.
The Poyson Garden.
New York: Delacorte, 1999.

Scott, Melissa, and Lisa A. Barnett.
The Armor of Light.
New York: Baen, 1988.

Tourney, Leonard.
The Bartholomew Fair Murders.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.

Tourney, Leonard.
Familiar Spirits.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.

Tourney, Leonard.
Knaves Templar.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

Tourney, Leonard.
Low Treason.
New York: Dutton, 1982.

Tourney, Leonard.
Old Saxon Blood.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Tourney, Leonard.
The Players’ Boy Is Dead.
New York: Harper-Row, 1980.

Tourney, Leonard.
Witness of Bones.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

VISUAL AND ILLUSTRATION SOURCES

Allemagne, Henri Réné d’.
Sports et jeux d’adresse.
Paris: Hachette, 1903.

Amman, Jost.
Gynaeceum sive Theatrum Mulierum.
Frankfurt, 1586.

Arbeau, Thoinot.
Orchésographie.
Lengres: J. des Preyz, 1596.

Ashdown, Emily Jessie.
British Costume.
London: T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1910.

Beau-Chesne, Jean de.
A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands.
London: Richard Field, 1602.

Besant, Sir Walter.
London in the Time of the Tudors.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904.

Castle, Egerton.
Schools and Masters of Fence.
London: Bell, 1892.

Clark, Andrew, ed.
The Shirburn Ballads 1585–1616.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.

Clinch, George.
English Costume.
Chicago and London: Methuen and Co., 1910.

Furnivall, F. J.
Harrison’s Description of England in Shakspere’s Youth.
London: Trübner, 1877.

Furnivall, F. J.
Phillip Stubbes’ Anatomy of Abuses.
London: Trübner, 1879.

Gay, Victor.
Glossaire Archéologique.
Paris: Librairie de la Société Bibliographique, 1887.

Gilbert, William.
On the Magnet.
London: Chiswick Press, 1900.

Hindley, Charles, ed.
The Roxburghe Ballads.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1837–74.

Holinshed, Raphael.
The Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande.
London: I.

Hunne, 1577.

Hymns Ancient and Modern.
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1909.

268 Classifi ed Bibliographies

Monroe, Paul.
A Brief Course in the History of Education.
London: Macmillan, 1907.

Ruding, Rogers.
Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain.
London: J. Hearne, 1840.

Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age.
2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.

Traill, H. D., and J. S. Mann.
Social England.
London: Cassell; New York: Putnam’s, 1909.

Weigel, Hans.
Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum.
Nuremberg: Hans Weigel, 1577.

Illustrations by Jeffrey Forgeng, Victoria Hadfield, and David Hoornstra were produced expressly for this volume.

Index

Page numbers in
italics
indicate illustrations.

advowson, 26 – 27

Armada, 4 – 5

agriculture, 81 – 90, 91 – 94.

armor,
12
, 117, 191

See also
champion agriculture;

army and militia, 14, 193

woodland agriculture

astronomy and astrology, 60,

ale and beer, 164, 170, 180 – 81

225, 233 – 34, 236,

alehouses, 23, 66, 171, 175, 227

237, 238

ales.
See
maygames

athletics, 196, 198

America.
See
New World

Anabaptists, 29

babies,
45
, 48.

animals, 110, 191.
See also
bees;

See also
childbirth

cats; dogs; livestock; horses;

backgammon, 197, 205

sheep; vermin

badminton, 195

animal sports, 82, 189 – 91

baking.
See
cooking

apprentices, 19, 62 – 63, 139

ballads, 114, 187

aprons, 141

bandy-ball, 194

archbishops, 20, 28, 31

baptism, 41, 44 – 45, 78

archdeacons, 19, 20, 27, 28

barley, 82, 92, 93, 166, 170

archery, 183, 192 – 93, 199

Barley Break, 196, 198, 201

aristocracy, 9 – 11, 2, 39, 103.

barristers.
See
lawyers

See also
gentlemen; noblemen

Base, 196, 198

arithmetic and mathematics,

bathing.
See
washing

53, 60, 237

beans.
See
legumes

270 Index

bearbaiting and bullbaiting,

caps.
See
headgear

190 – 91

cards, 184, 198, 200, 207 – 10

bedchamber.
See
chamber

carpets, 114, 116

beds, 74, 75, 107, 116 – 18, 227.

cassocks, 104, 139, 160 – 61

See also
furnishings; sleeping

catechism, 51, 53, 77

beer.
See
ale

Catholicism, 1 – 4, 26, 28 – 29, 30,

bees, 110

235.
See also
Jesuits; Pope

beggars,
13
, 23

cats, 191

belts, 140

cellars, 109, 113

Bible, 77, 104, 187, 235

chaff, 87, 93, 107, 118

billiards, 199

chamber, bedchamber, 109, 110,

birth.
See
childbirth

114, 116 – 17

bishops, 20, 27 – 28, 29, 31, 236

chamber pot, 75, 119

blast furnace, 96

champion (open-field) agriculture,

Blindman’s Buff, 197, 198, 199

69, 92, 105.
See also
villages

boats.
See
ships and boats

checkers, 197

bodices, 132 – 34, 144 – 47

cheese, 104, 117, 164, 165, 167, 168.

books, 104, 187.

See also
dairy produce

See also
broadsides; reading

chess, 197

boots, 138

chests.
See
furnishings

bowls, 195, 200, 204

childbirth, 41, 43 – 44, 239

bread, 164, 165 – 66, 172, 176

children, 43, 46 – 63, 173 – 74, 200

breakfast, 54, 57, 74, 77, 163 – 64

chimneys, 89, 107, 109, 110.

breeches, 48, 75, 131, 149 – 50.

See also
fire

See also
Venetian breeches

Christmas, 58, 90, 181, 197, 201

brewing.
See
ale

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