Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Alabaster, William | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHIES

Guiney, Louise Imogen. “William Alabaster.” In Recusant Poets, Vol. 1, pp. 335-346. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939.

Provides an introductory overview of the poet's religious life.

Story, G. M. “Biographical Sketch.” In the General Introduction to The Sonnets of William Alabaster, edited by G. M. Story and Helen Gardner, pp. xi-xxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Places Alabaster in his literary and political context.

CRITICISM

Coldewey, John C. “William Alabaster's Roxana: Some Textual Considerations.” In Acta conventus neo-latini bononiensis, edited by R. J. Schoeck, pp. 413-419. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, 1985.

Examines the textual history of Roxana.

Ottenhoff, John H. “The Shadow and the Real: Typology and the Religious Sonnet.” University of Hartford Studies in...

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