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Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum collected well over 400 article reprints and pamphlets concerning the Renaissance era as it related to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum collected well over 400 article reprints and pamphlets concerning the Renaissance era as it related to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The various articles concern the playwright Christopher Marlowe. The articles discuss different aspects of his life and work, including his cause of death, his indebtedness to private sources, his possible job as a government agent, and many others.

The article discusses the similarities between Cinthio's play Epitia and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It also talks about how Epitia could be the primary source for Measure for Measure.

The various articles discuss the medical practices of the Elizabethan era and analyze how much knowledge Shakespeare had about such practices to incorporate into his shows.

The article discusses the medieval element during the Elizabethan era and how authors incorporated it into their works, including Shakespeare.

The article discusses the history of Brian Melbancke and his forms of literature, including his novel Philotimus.

Several documents and essays discussing the literature and dramatic choices of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as well as the differences found between different versions of the play compared to the first folio. There is also a document that tells the legend of The Divine Surety and The Jewish Moneylender.

An essay written by Robert Adger Law reviewing various aspects of the play The Merry Devil of Edmonton, including plot construction, repetition ,metrics and many others.

An essay which reviews the works Miltons Prosody written by Robert Bridges, which examines literature style in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and Classical Metres in English Verse by William Johnson, which examines Enlish hexameters and the phonetic condition of syllables.