English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

The article discusses the reprinting of the poems of the "Hundreth Sundry Flowers." The article notes the history, the writers, and the editors behind it.

The document examines definitions of what makes a morality play to determine some common agreed upon attributes and looks for various possible sources for the first morality play.

The document discusses Shakespeares possible knowledge of Pliny's writings of Natural History and used certain passages in various lines within his works.

The document discusses how religious literature of the reign of Edward VI were mostly printed anonymously and discusses the possible printers of one such literature known as "A pore Helpe"

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.

The document examines quotations from Thomas Nashe to compare Latin Literature between the Sixteenth Century modern times.

The document discusses arguments over the identification of an author named Tourneur who wrote a prose "Character" of the late Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury upon his death.

The document examines Shakespeare’s uses of the supernatural in his plays to understand better how Shakespeare’s genius may be considered broader and that his knowledge was more in-depth than thought.

The materials include an article discussing whether Shakespeare's play King John reflects the political and diplomatic relations of the 1590s. The article compares Shakespeare's play to "The Troublesome Reign," written by an anonymous author a few years before.

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