Lee, Sidney. A Life of William Shakespeare, London and New York, 1898. New and revised ed., 1909.
—— Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, Chap. III in Shakespeare and the Modern Stage, 1906.
The preceding are the most important books, but the following are useful in various ways: William Shakespeare. K. Elze. Halle, 1876. Eng. trans, by L. D. Schmitz, 1888. A Chronicle History of the Life and Works of Shakspere. F. G. Fleay. London, 1886. Shakespeare's Marriage. J. W. Gray. 1905. Shakespeare's Family. C. C. Stopes. 1901. Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries. C. C. Stopes. 1907. New Shakespeare Discoveries. C. W. Wallace. Harper's Magazine, March, 1910. Catalogues of the books, manuscripts, works of art, antiquities, and relics at present exhibited in Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, 1910. For discussion of portraits of Shakespeare, see Portraits of Shakespeare, J. P. Norris, Philadelphia, 1885; M. R. Spielmann in Stratford-Town Shakespeare, vol. x; and in Encycl. Brit., 11th ed., article on Shakespeare. On a Portrait of Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon, L. Cust, Proc. Soc. Antiq., 1895.
See also [Sources of Traditional Material], Appendix A, p. 225.
CHAPTER III
Shakespeare's Reading
Shakespeare's Books: A dissertation on Shakespeare's reading and the immediate sources of his works. By H. R. D. Anders. Berlin, 1904. The best book on the subject.
Shakespeare's Studies, T. S. Baynes, 1893.
Shakespeare's Holinshed. Ed. W. G. Boswell-Stone. 1896. New ed., 1907. A reprint of the passages in Holinshed's Chronicles which Shakespeare used.
Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. W. W. Skeat. 1875.
The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare. J. J. Jusserand, trans. E. Lee. 1890.