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24 books recommended for fans of Gallathea and Midas by John Lyly, tied together by themes of Renaissance, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland — Christopher Highley

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England — Jonathan Baldo

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Introduction To English Renaissance Comedy — Alexander Leggatt

Introduction To English Renaissance Comedy

Alexander Leggatt

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature — Natalie K. Eschenbaum

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature — Camilla Caporicci

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

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Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Renaissance Drama on the Edge — Lisa Hopkins

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Christopher Marlowe The Plays and Their Sources — Vivien Thomas

Christopher Marlowe The Plays and Their Sources

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton — Gary Taylor

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre The Early Modern Body-Mind — Laurie Johnson

Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre The Early Modern Body-Mind

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Double Falsehood Third Series — William Shakespeare

Double Falsehood Third Series

William Shakespeare

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts — Jonathan Goldberg

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts

Jonathan Goldberg

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Volpone — Ben Jonson

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama Enacting Family and Monarchy — Chanita Goodblatt

Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama Enacting Family and Monarchy

Chanita Goodblatt

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama — Helen Hackett

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare — Will Tosh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

King Lear Second Edition — Alexander Leggatt

King Lear Second Edition

Alexander Leggatt

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

John Webster The Critical Heritage — Don D. Moore

John Webster The Critical Heritage

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Celebrating Shakespeare Commemoration and Cultural Memory — Clara Calvo

Celebrating Shakespeare Commemoration and Cultural Memory

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Tutor The Influence of Thomas Kyd — Darren Freebury-Jones

Shakespeare’s Tutor The Influence of Thomas Kyd

Darren Freebury-Jones

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance — Sonia Massai

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction — Stanley Wells

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction

Themes: Renaissance • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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