Condren, Conal. Introduction "An Exposition of Lawson's Politica," part II of George Lawson's Politica and the English Revolution, pp. 33-42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Discusses textual concerns related to Politica, a work written in the late 1650s which treats the political and religious issues of the English Revolution and the Interregnum.

Dow, F. D. "Parliamentarians and Republicans." In Radicalism in the English Revolution, 1640-1660, pp. 10-29. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.

Argues that radical ideas regarding political power were not the cause of the English Revolution, but rather the by-product, and that based on debates in Parliament between 1640 and 1642 it is "clear that Charles I and his critics shared many political assumptions and many social ideals."

Manning, Brian. "Religion and Politics: The Godly People." In Politics, Religion and the English Civil War, edited by Brian Manning, pp. 83-123. Edward Arnold, 1973. Reprinted in Seventeenth-Century England: A Changing Culture, Vol. 2, Modern Studies, edited by W. R. Owens, pp. 146-66. London: Ward Lock Educational in association with Open University Press, 1980.

Examines the complexities of political and religious loyalties, especially the relationship of such loyalties to class issues, that contributed to the English Revolution.

McKeon, Michael. "Politics of Discourses and the Rise of the Aesthetic in Seventeenth-Century England." In Politics of Discourse: The Literature of Seventeenth-Century England, edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, pp. 35-51. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Examines the "decline of religion" as a "function of the rise of the aesthetic" in seventeenth-century literature.

Paulson, Ronald. "Satire and the Conventions of Realism." In his Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England, pp. 3-51. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

Analyzes the elements that comprise humor as it developed in the English novel and as it diverged from the traditional, more conservative satire characteristic of older genres.

Thomas, P. W. "Two Cultures? Court and Country under Charles I." In The Origins of the English Civil War, edited by Conrad Russell, pp. 168-93. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1973.

Maintains that portraying the English Revolution as an "assault by a counter-culture" is too simplistic, and that the war concerned the condition of the whole society, a society "threatened by a failure of the ruling caste both to uphold traditional national aims and values, and to adapt itself to a rapidly changing world."

Sharpe, Kevin and Steven N. Zwicker. Introduction to Politics of Discourse: The Literature of Seventeenth-Century England, edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, pp. 1-20. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Argues that the relationship between the language of seventeenth-century England and the discourse of that time must be examined in order to properly understand that discourse.

Stone, Lawrence. "The Causes of the English Revolution." In The Causes of the English Revolution, pp. 47-146. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.

Provides a detailed analysis of the events leading up to the English Revolution. The chapter covers "Presuppositions," "The Preconditions, 1529-1629," "The Precipitants, 1629-39," and "The Triggers, 1640-42."

Tuck, Richard. "'The Ancient Law of Freedom': John Selden and the Civil War." In Reactions to the English Civil War, 1642-1649, edited by John Morrill, pp. 137-61. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1982.

As a means of understanding the reactions to the Civil War of those who lived through it, the critic examines the life of John Selden, a political theorist and Parliamentary activist whose intellectual activity before and after the war is well-documented, and who influenced his contemporaries in a way that "their own reactions can be taken to represent a not uncommon response."

Yule, George. "The Independents and the Long Parliament." In The Independents in the English Civil War, pp. 29-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Studies the influence and the stance of the Independent party on the religious and political issues that plagued Parliament during the mid-seventeenth century.