Further Reading
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wertheim, Albert. “James Shirley.” In The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. edited by Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, pp. 152-171. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
Annotated primary and secondary bibliography.
Zimmer, Ruth K. James Shirley: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1980, 132 p.
Annotated primary and secondary bibliography.
CRITICISM
Burner, Sandra A. James Shirley: A Study of Literary Coteries and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England. Lanham, Mass.: University Press of America, 1988, 234 p.
Discusses the role of aristocratic patronage and literary coteries influenced Shirley's career as a dramatist.
Crawley, Derek. “The Effect of Shirley's Hand on Chapman's The Tragedy of Chabot Admiral of France.” Studies in Philology 63, no. 5 (October 1966): 677-96.
Argues that Shirley's revision of George Chapman's The Tragedy of Chabot undermined the Stoicism central to Chapman's work.
Forsythe, Robert Stanley. The Relations of Shirley's Plays to the Elizabethan Drama. 1914. Reprint. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1965, 483 p.
Seminal early twentieth-century analysis of the influence of Elizabethan drama on Shirley's plays.
Gaby, Rosemary. “Of Vagabonds and Commonwealths: Beggars' Bush, A Jovial Crew, and The Sisters.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 34, no. 2 (spring 1994): 401-24.
Examines the rogue or vagabond character in The Sisters and other comedies.
Hogan, A. P. “Thematic Analysis of The Cardinal: A New Perspective on Shirley.” Yearbook of English Studies 5 (1975): 75-85.
Identifies the relationship between court and king as the major theme of The Cardinal.
McGee, C. E. “‘Strangest Consequence from Remotest Cause’: The Second Performance of The Triumph of Peace.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 5 (1991): 309-42.
Discusses the political and economic circumstances surrounding an early production of The Triumph of Peace.
Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume. “A 1660s Promptbook of Shirley's Loves Crueltie.” Theatre Research International 11, no. 1 (spring 1986): 1-13.
Analyzes a seventeenth-century promptbook for Love's Cruelty.
Sanders, Julie. Caroline Drama: The Plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley, and Brome. Plymouth, England: Northcote House Publishers, 79 p.
Places works by Shirley and his contemporaries in the political context of the 1640s.
———. “Beggars' Commonwealths and the Pre-Civil War Stage: Suckling's The Goblins, Brome's A Jovial Crew, and Shirley's The Sisters.” Modern Language Review 97, no. 1 (January 2002): 1-14.
Examines the political themes developed through the “beggars' commonwealths” depicted in Shirley's comedies.
Walker, Kim. “New Prison: Representing the Female Actor in Shirley's The Bird in a Cage (1633).” English Literary Renaissance 21, no. 3 (autumn 1991): 385-400.
Studies the attitudes toward women in The Bird in a Cage.
Additional coverage of Shirley's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 58; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.
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