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General

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Berkshire

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  • Hone, William. Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, the Festivals of Fools and Asses–The English Boy-Bishop–The Descent into Hell–The Lord Mayor’s Show–The Guildhall Giants–Christmas Carols, &c (London, 1823).
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  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘English Guilds and Municipal Authority,’ Renaissance and Reformation, ns, 13.1 (1989), 69–88.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘English Puritanism and Festive Custom,’ Renaissance and Reformation, ns, 15.4 (1991), 289–97.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘Summer Festivals in the Thames Valley Counties,’ Custom, Culture and Community in the Later Middle Ages: A Symposium. Thomas Pettitt and Leif Søndergaard (eds) (Odense, 1994). 37–56.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘“What Revels are in Hand?": Dramatic Activities Sponsored by the Parishes of the Thames Valley,’ English Parish Drama. A.F. Johnston and Wim Hüsken (eds). Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 1 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1996). 95–106.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘The Emerging Pattern of the Easter Play in England,’ Medieval English Theatre 20 (1998), 3–23.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘The Robin Hood of the Records,’ Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Lois Potter (ed) (Newark and London, 1998). 27–44.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘English Community Drama in Crisis: 1535-80,’ Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe. Alan Hindley (ed). Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 1 (Turnhout, 1999). 248–69.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘The “Lady of the Farme”: The Context of Lady Russell’s Entertainment for Elizabeth at Bisham, 1592,’ Early Theatre 5.2 (2002), 71–85.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘Parish Playmaking before the Reformation,’ The Parish in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2002 Harlaxton Symposium. Clive Burgess and Eamon Duffy (eds). Harlaxton Medieval Studies 14 (Donington, 2006). 322–38.
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  • Johnston, Alexandra F. ‘An Unusual Record in the Exeter College Archives,’ Exeter College Register (2009), 32–5.
  • Johnston, Alexandra F., and Sally-Beth MacLean. ‘Reformation and Resistance in Thames/Severn Parishes: The Dramatic Witness,’ The Parish in English Life 1400–1600. Katherine L. French, Gary G. Gibbs, and Beat A. Kümen (eds) (Manchester and New York, 1997). 178–200.
  • Kerry, Charles. The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray, in the County of Berks (London, 1861).
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  • Mattingly, Joanna. ‘Lollards Stop Play? A Curious Case of Non-Performance in 1505,’ Medieval English Theatre 22 (2000), 100–1.
  • Money, Walter. The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury, in the County of Berks (London, 1887).
  • Murray, John Tucker. English Dramatic Companies 1558–1642. 2 vols (London, 1910; rpt 1963).
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  • Nelson, Alan H. The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants and Plays (Chicago and London, 1974).
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  • Rymer, Thomas. Foedera, Conventiones, Literæ, et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliæ, et alios quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel Communitates, ab ineunte Sæculo Duodecimo, viz. ab Anno 1101, ad nostra usque Tempora, Habita aut Tractata; ex Autographis, infra Secretiores Archivorum Regiorum Thesaurarias, per multa Sæcula reconditis, fideliter Exscripta. Vol 10 (London, 1726).
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Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse

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  • Knafla, Louis (ed). Kent at Law 1602. Vol 4: Courts of Equity – Chancery. List and Index Society, Special Series 52 (Kew, 2013).
  • Knafla, Louis (ed). Kent at Law 1602. Vol 7: Court of Exchequer – Equity Proceedings. List and Index Society, Special Series 60 (Kew, 2021).
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Cambridgeshire

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  • Coulton, G.G. Life in the Middle Ages. Vol 3 (Cambridge, 1928).
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  • The History of Wisbech, with an Historical Sketch of the Fens (Wisbech, 1834).
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  • Wright, Robert R. 'Medieval Theatre in East Anglia: A Study of Drama and the Community in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, 1200–1580, with special reference to Game, Interlude and Play in the late 15th and early 16th Century.' PhD thesis, University of Bristol, 1972.

Hampshire

  • Anderson, R.C. (ed). The Book of Examinations and Depositions, 1622–1644. Southampton Record Society 29, 31, 34, 36. 4 vols (Southampton, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1936).
  • Anderson, R.C. (ed). Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, from the Archives of Southampton. Southampton Record Society 22 (Southampton, 1921).
  • Bailey, Charles. Transcripts from the Municipal Archives of Winchester, and Other Documents, Elucidating the Government, Manners, and Customs of the Same City, from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Period (Winchester, 1856).
  • Baldwin, T.W. William Shakspere’s Small Latine & Lesse Greeke. 2 vols (Urbana, IL, 1944).
  • Bentley, G.E. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Dramatic Companies and Players. Vols 1–2, 5 (Oxford, 1941, 1967).
  • Bettey, J.H. Wessex from AD 1000 (London and New York, 1986).
  • Bird, W.H.B. (ed); Baigent, F.J. (transcr). The Black Book of Winchester (British Museum, Additional MS. 6036) (Winchester, 1925).
  • Blake, E.O. (ed). The Cartulary of the Priory of St Denys Near Southampton. Southampton Record Series 24, 25. 2 vols (Southampton, 1981).
  • Blewitt, David W. ‘Records of Drama at Winchester and Eton, 1397–1576,’ Theatre Notebook 38.2–3 (1984), 88–95, 135–43.
  • Borough of Southampton. List of Charters, Letters Patent, and Other Muniments of the Corporation of Southampton. John Cordy Jeaffreson (ed) (Southampton, 1886).
  • Brennecke, Ernest. ‘The Entertainment at Elvetham, 1591,’ Music in English Renaissance Drama. John H. Long (ed) (Lexington, 1968), 32–56.
  • Burch, C.E.C. Minstrels and Players in Southampton 1428–1635. Southampton Papers 7 (Southampton, 1969).
  • Butler, Cheryl (ed). The Book of Fines: The Annual Accounts of the Mayors of Southampton, Vol 1: 1488–1540, Vol 2: 1540–1571, Vol 3: 1572–1594. Southampton Record Series 41, 43, 44. 3 vols (Southampton, 2007—10).
  • Byrne, Muriel St Clare (ed). The Lisle Letters. Vol 1 (Chicago, 1981).
  • ‘C., H.’ The Wykehamist, no 506 (30 July 1912).
  • Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols (Oxford, 1923).
  • Chambers, E.K. The Medieval Stage. 2 vols (Oxford, 1903).
  • Cheney, C.R. English Synodalia of the Thirteenth Century (Oxford, 1941).
  • Connor, W.J. (ed). The Southampton Mayor’s Book of 1606–1608. Southampton Records Series 21 (Southampton, 1978).
  • Cowling, Jane. ‘A Fifteenth-Century Saint Play in Winchester: Some Problems of Interpretation,’ Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 13 (2001), 19–33.
  • Cowling, Jane. ‘An Edition of the Records of Drama, Ceremony and Secular Music in Winchester City and College 1556—1642,’ PhD thesis (University of Southampton, 1993).
  • Cowling, Jane. ‘Performance at Winchester College, 1396–1642,’ Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama 46 (2007), 101–15.
  • Cowling, Jane. ‘The Wood Eaves,’ Medieval English Theatre 17 (1995), 20–8.
  • Cowling, Jane; Greenfield, Peter. Monks, Minstrels and Players: Drama in Hampshire before 1642. Hampshire Papers 29 (Southampton, 2008).
  • Davies, H. Neville. ‘Looking Again at Elvetham: An Elizabethan Entertainment Revisited,’ Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J.R. Mulryne. Margaret Shewring and Linda Briggs (eds) (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, 2013). 211–42.
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  • Farmer, D.L. 'Marketing the Produce of the Countryside, 1200–1500: Markets, Fairs, and Transport,' The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol 3: 1348–1500. Edward Miller (ed) (Cambridge and New York, 1991). 327–57.
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  • Gidden, H.W. (ed). The Book of Remembrance of Southampton, Vol 1: Henry VI–James I (1440–1620), Vol 2: A.D. 1303–A.D. 1518, Vol 3: A.D. 1483–A.D. 1563. Southampton Record Series 27, 28, 30. 3 vols (Southampton, 1927, 1928, 1930).
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  • Great Britain. Historical Manuscripts Commission. John Cordy Jeaffreson (ed). ‘The Manuscripts of the Corporation of the Town of Southampton,’ Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part III. The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and King’s Lynn (London, 1887). 1–144.
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  • Great Britain. Public Record Office. Brewer, J.S. (ed)Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. Addenda. Vol 1, pt 2 (London, 1932).
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  • Greenfield, Peter H. ‘The Carnivalesque in the Robin Hood Games and King Ales of Southern England,’ Carnival and the Carnivalesque: The Fool, the Reformer, the Wildman, and Others in Early Modern Theatre. Konrad Eisenbichler and Wim Hüsken (eds). Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 4 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1999). 19–28.
  • Greenfield, Peter H. ‘Parish Drama in Four Counties Bordering the Thames Watershed,’ English Parish Drama. Alexandra F. Johnston and Wim Hüsken (eds). Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 1 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1996). 107–18.
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  • ‘The Honorable Entertainment gieven to the Queenes Maiestie in Progresse, at Elvetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle of Hertford. 1591,’ The Complete Works of John Lyly, Vol 1: Life, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Entertainments. R. Warwick Bond (ed) (Oxford, 1902). 431–71.
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Rose Playhouse

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