History of England and of Renaissance Literature
J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558. Oxford, 1952.
J. B. Black, The Reign of Elizabeth, 1558-1603. Oxford, 1959.
Godfrey Davies, The Early Stuarts, 1603-1660. Oxford, 1959.
C. S. Lewis, English Literature of the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama. Oxford, 1954.
F. P. Wilson and G. K. Hunter, The English Drama, 1485-1585. Oxford, 1968.
Scientific and Philosophical Background
J. B. Bamborough, The Little World of Man. Longmans, 1952.
Hardin Craig, The Enchanted Glass. Blackwell, 1966.
C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image. Cambridge, 1964.
E. M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture. Random House.
Internet References
Luminarium Sixteenth-Century Renaissance English Literature.
Luminarium English Renaissance Drama.
Luminarium Religious Writers of the English Renaissance.
Luminarium Early Seventeenth-Century English Literature.
Renaissance E-Texts(1477-1799) Renascence Editions from the U. of Oregon.
Literary Resources--Renaissance from Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.
Renaissance and 17th Century from Voice of the Shuttle.
Books and Collectibles (17th Century)