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JOHN FORTESCUE

Sir John Fortescue on the Laws and Governance of England, ed. Shelley Lockwood (Cambridge, 1997) - [KD600.F6713.1997] – Law Library LC and Political Science Collections

Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394-1476

JOHN FISHER

John Fisher’s Court Sermons: Preaching for Lady Margaret, 1507-1509, ed. Cecelia A. Hatt (Oxford, 2021) - [PDF of ‘Funeral Sermon for Henry VII’ from SH and on CANVAS]

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535

JOHN SKELTON

John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, ed. John Scattergood (New Haven, 1983) - [PR2346.S3.1983] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Skelton, John, 1460-1529

GEORGE CAVENDISH

The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. R.S. Sylvester (London, Early English Text Society OS no.243, 1959) - [PR1119.A2.243] - Olin Library Level A Stacks   

Schwartz-Leeper, Gavin. From princes to pages: The literary lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'other king.’ Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Also in eBook

Gardiner, L.R. "George Cavendish: an Early Tudor Political Commentator?" Parergon 6, no. 1 (1988): 77-87, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.wustl.edu/pub/62/article/490961/pdf.

A Companion to the Cavendishes. Tom Rutter & Lisa Hopkins, eds. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021.

THOMAS MORE

Utopia, ed. Edward Surtz (New Haven, 1964) - [HX811.1616.E964] - Olin Library Level 2 Stacks  

More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535 and Utopia. More, Thomas…

THOMAS ELYOT

A Critical Edition of Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Boke Named the Governour, ed. Donald W. Rude (New York, 1992) - [JC393.B3.E67.1992] - Law Library Political Science  

Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490-1546

ROBERT CROWLEY

The Select Works of Robert Crowley, ed. J.M Cowper (London, Early English Text Society OS no.15, 1872) - [PR1119.E5.15] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588 – nothing in WUSTL Libraries’ catalog

Thompsett, Frederica Harris. "Robert: Gospeller and Pamphleteer in Tudor England." PhD dissertation. The University of Chicago, 1973. http://libproxy.wustl.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy.wustl.edu/dissertations-theses/robert-crowley-gospeller-pamphleteer-tudor/docview/251654407/se-2.

McCartor, Robert Lynn. “The Social and Political Theories of Robert Crowley, a Sixteenth-Century Radical.” M.A. Thesis, History. Texas Tech University, 1971, https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/af97f9be-991a-4509-8154-bada87957c01/content.

Graham, Kenneth J. E. (Kenneth John Emerson). "Distributive Measures: Theology and Economics in the Writings of Robert Crowley." Criticism 47, no. 2 (2005): 137-158, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.wustl.edu/pub/27/article/206032/pdf.

HUGH LATIMER

Sermons (London, 1906) - [BX5133.L3.1906] - Olin Library Level B Stacks  

Latimer, Hugh, c.1485-1555

THOMAS SMITH

A Discourse of the Commonweal of This Realm of England: attributed to Sir Thomas Smith, ed. Mary Dewar (Charlottesville, 1969) - [HC254.C74.1969] - Olin Library Level 2 Stacks  

Smith, Thomas, 1513-1577  

JOHN FOXE

John Foxe’s The Acts and Monuments Online-DHI  

Foxe, John, 1516-1587

THOMAS SACKVILLE AND THOMAS NORTON

Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, ed. Irby B. Cauthen (Lincoln NE, 1970) - [PR2729.N7.A7.1970] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608

Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584

JOHN STUBBS

John Stubb’s ‘Gaping Gulf’ With Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (Charlottesville, 1966) - [DA350.S7.1968] - Olin Library Level 3 Stacks  

Stubbes, John, 1543-1591 – nothing in WUSTL Libraries

EDMUND SPENSER

The Shepheards Calendar, Containing Twelve Eclogues to the Twelve Months, ed. C.H. Hertford (London, 1925) - [PR2359.A2.H4] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 plus Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Shepherd's calender   

PHILIP SIDNEY

The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia [The Old Arcadia], ed. Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973) - [PR2342.A5.1973] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586

MARTIN MARPRELATE

The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernised and Annotated Edition, ed. Joseph L. Black (Cambridge, 2008) - [NOT HELD: PDF of ‘Tract IV: Hay Any Work for Cooper’ from SH and on CANVAS]

Marprelate controversy

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Henry VI, Part 2, ed. Ronald Knowles (London, 2002) - [PR2815.A2.K56.2002] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

King Richard II, ed. Charles R. Forker (London, 2002) - [PR2820.A2.F67.2002] - Olin Library Level A Stacks  

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 plus King Henry VI and King Richard II

If there are other texts which we have alluded to in class on which you might like to focus (e.g. More’s Epigrams, or Elyot’s Dialogues [including Pasquil the Plain], please come and see Professor Hindle to get access to a scholarly edition].

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