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Rich's Farewell to Military Profession, 1581 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by Thomas Mabry Cranfill (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespear Illustrated: or, The Novels and Histories on Which the Plays of Shakespear are Founded (3 volumes; London: A. Millar, 1753-1754), ed. by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare Jest-Books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare (3 volumes; London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864), ed. by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Plutarch (2 volumes; New York: Duffield and Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1909), by Plutarch, ed. by Tucker Brooke, trans. by Thomas North
- Volume I (sources for Julius Caeasar): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (sources for Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus): multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Shakespeare's Plutarch: Being a Selection From the Lives in North's Plutarch Which Illustrate Shakespeare's Plays (London : Macmillan and co., 1875), by Plutarch, ed. by Walter W. Skeat, trans. by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
Eight Novels Employed by English Dramatic Poets of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and Reprinted From a Copy of That Date in the Bodleian Library (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1846), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by John Payne Collier
- multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust
The Mirror for Magistrates, Edited From Original Texts in the Huntington library (1960 reprint of 1938 edition), ed. by Lily Bess Campbell, contrib. by William Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
Die tragische ironie in der englischen tragödie und historic vor Shakespeare ... (Druck von E. Karras, 1915), by Adolf Hüdepohl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Shakespeare classics. (Chatto & Windus, 1907), by Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Links between Ireland and Shakespeare (Maunsel and company, ltd., 1919), by D. Plunket Barton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The antic Hamlet and Richard III. (King's Crown Press, 1943), by Sidney Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Shakespeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots and characters; and essays on the ancient theatres and theatrical usages. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by Augustine Skottowe (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's library : a collection of the romances, novels, poems, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas : now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions (T. Rodd, 1843), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Quellen des Shakspeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen. (Fincke, 1831), by Karl Joseph Simrock, Ludwig Henschel, and Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Six old plays, on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for mearsure, Comedy of errors, Taming the shrew, King John, K. Henry IV. and K. Henry V., King Lear. (Printed for S. Leacroft, and sold by J. Nichols, [etc.], 1779), by George Whetstone, George Steevens, Titus Maccius Plautus, and John Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's jest book. A hundred mery talys, from the only perfect copy known. (J.R. Smith, 1866), by Hermann Oesterley (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and Spain (The Clarendon press, 1922), by Henry Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Montaigne and Shakspere (The University press, 1897), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Ovid, being Arthur Golding's translation of the Metamorphoses (At the De la More Press, 1904), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, W. H. D. Rouse, Arthur Golding, and De La More Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare and "The arte of English poesie". - (AMS Press, 1973), by William Lowes Rushton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare's use of learning; an inquiry into the growth of his mind & art. (Huntington Library, 1953), by Virgil K. Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Outlines of the life of Shakespeare. (Printed for the author's friends, 1881), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Outlines of the life of Shakespeare. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Outlines of the life of Shakspeare. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare jest-books; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare. I. A hundred mery talys, from the only known copy. (H. Sotheran & co., 1881), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Pandosto, or, The Historie of Dorastus and Fawnia (The Elston press, 1902), by Robert Greene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Memoranda on the tragedy of Hamlet. (Printed by J. E. Adlard, 1879), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
The backgrounds of Shakespeare's plays (American Book Co., 1950), by Karl Julius Holzknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
Studi Shakespeariani. (Tip. di R. Giusti, 1897), by Giuseppe Chiarini (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's library. (Reeves and Turner, 1875), by William Carew Hazlitt and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and the Welsh (T.F. Unwin, 1919), by Frederick J. Harries (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's derived imagery. (University of Kansas Press, 1953), by John Erskine Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes and various readings to Shakespeare. (Printed by Henry Hughs, for the author, 1779), by Edward Capell and John Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Urheberschaft und urquell von Shakespeares dichtungen (A. Deichert, 1886), by Ernst Hermann (page images at HathiTrust)
Our English Homer; or, Shakespeare historically considered. (S. Low, Marston & company, limited, 1892), by Thomas William White (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeares vorgänger. : Festvortrag, gehalten auf der general-versammlung der Deutschen Shakespeare-gesellschaft am 22. april 1899 ([Berlin, 1899), by Alois Brandl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Quellen des Shakspeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen, mit sagenseschichtlichen Nachweisungen (A. Marcus, 1870), by Karl Joseph Simrock, Ludwig Henschel, and Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Quellen des Shakspeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen : mit sagenseschichtlichen Nachweisungen (A. Marcus, 1872), by Karl Joseph Simrock, Ludwig Henschel, and Theodor Echtermeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
On the rudiments of the Shakspearian drama ... (H.L. Broenner, 1828), by James Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)
A hundred merry tales: the earliest English jest-book. (J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1887), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's jest book (Chidley, 1831), by John Chidley and C. and W. Reynell (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Holinshed : the Chronicle and the historical plays compared (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896), by Raphael Holinshed and W. G. Boswell-Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Plutarch; being a selection from the lives in North's Plutarch which illustrate Shakespeare's plays. (Macmillan and co., 1875), by Plutarch, Walter W. Skeat, and Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare und Plutarch. ([Braunschweig, 1887), by Plutarch and Adolf Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and 'The arte of English poesie'. By William Lowes Rushton ... (H. Young & sons, 1909), by William Lowes Rushton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ueber die quellen, aus denen Shakespeare den Timon von Athen entnommen hat ... (W. Ratz, 1873), by Adolf Mueller (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare und das Griechentum ... (G. Uschmann, 1920), by Elisabeth Wolffhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare's industry. (G. Bell, 1916), by C. C. Stopes (page images at HathiTrust)
A new boke about Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon (For private circulation, 1850), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Shakespeare (Longmans, 1885), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's books : a dissertation on Shakespeare's reading and the immediate sources of his works (G. Reimer, 1904), by Henry R.D. Anders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Choice of emblemes. (Lovell Reeve & co.; [etc., etc.], 1866), by Geffrey Whitney, János Zsámboki, Henry Green, Claude Paradin, János Zsámboki, and Andrea Alciati (page images at HathiTrust)
Studi Shakespeariani. (Tip. di R. Giusti, 1896), by Giuseppe Chiarini (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and the Welsh (Llanerch, 1991), by Frederick J. Harries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Shakespeare handbook (F. S. Crofts, 1925), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakspere [sic] and euphuism ; Euphues an adaptation from Guevara (New Shakespere Society, 1882), by F. Landmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Foreword to the catalogue of the Shakespeare library (J. Pearson & Co.?, 1916), by William Carew Hazlitt and firm Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and the Italian renaissance (Oxford university press, American branch; [etc., etc., 1915), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
The Shakespeare classics (Duffield, 1907), by Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare and the emblem writers; an exposition of their similarities of thought and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616. With numerous illustrative devices from the original authors. (Trübner, 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakspeare's jest book ... (Press of C. Whittingham, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on Shakespeare's plays. (Proverbs, 1879), by Henry J. Potts (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Plutarch: (Duffield & Company;, 1909), by Plutarch, Tucker Brooke, and Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Über die Menächmen des Plautus und ihre Nachbildung (R. Grassmann, 1861), by W. Claus (page images at HathiTrust)
Four chapters of North's Plutarch ; containing the lives of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus as sources to Shakespeare's tragedies Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and partly to Hamlet and Timon of Athens ... with ... notes comparing the text of the editions of 1579, 1595 and 1603 ... (Trübner, 1878), by Plutarch, F. A. Leo, and Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeares italienische Novellen (J. Bard, 1920), by Paul Schubring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Famous victories of Henry the Fifth (Tudor facsimile texts, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
The real and the beau-ideal. Passages from Shakespeare, compared with those from Holy Writ. Siberts wold, a tale. ([s.n.], 1862), by Mary Ann Kelty (page images at HathiTrust)
Gli ecatommiti ovvero cento novelle (Borghi, 1834), by Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber die Menächmen des Plautus und ihre Nachbildung, besonders durch Shakspere ... (R. Grassmann, 1861), by W. Claus (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's library; a collection of the plays, romances, novels, poems (Reeves and Turner, 1875), by William Carew Hazlitt and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare jest-books : reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare (Willis & Sotheran, 1984), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fonti italiane dei drammi di Guglielmo Shakespeare. (G. Biancardi, 1914), by Matilde Doccioli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare's library: a collection of the ancient novels, romances, [etc.] used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions. (T. Rodd, 1850), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
De summi apud britannos poetae tragoediis e Plutarcho ductis. (Gratianopoli, 1855), by Émile Beaussire (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespear illustrated: or, The novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded (AMS Press, 1973), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare and the emblem writers; an exposition of their similarities of thought and expression. Preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A. D. 1616. (Trübner, 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's library : a collection of the plays, romances, novels, poems and histories employed by Shakespeare in the composition of his works, with introduction and notes. (Reeves and Turner, 1875), by William Carew Hazlitt and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakspere's Holinshed : the chronicle and the historical plays compared (Lawrence and Bullen, 1896), by Raphael Holinshed and W. G. Boswell-Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
William Shakespeare and alleged Spanish prototypes. (Press of the New York Shakespeare Society, 1886), by Albert R. Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare autotypes. (Harrison, 1887), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's Library: a collection of the plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare in the composition of his works (Reeves and Turner, 1875), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare (Druck von G. Stalling, 1888), by Robert Beyersdorff (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Anekdotenschatz Bacon-Shakespeare's : heiter-ernsthafte Selbstbekenntnisse des Dichter-Gelehrten (Selbstverlag, 1895), by Edwin Bormann and Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespere's scenarios, or, A condensed handbook of the sources made use of by William Shakespere in the composition of his plays Newly selected and comp. Together with the text of the sources of Macbeth and Julius Caesar, arranged to show the development of the plays under the poet's pen. Also containing several examples of Shakespere's manner of transcribing original material. (English Society, 1914), by James Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
Whitney's "Choice of emblemes" : a fac-simile reprint : with an introductory dissertation, essays literary and bibliographical and explanatory notes (Lovell Reeve, 1866), by Geffrey Whitney and Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's library : a collection of the romances, novels, poems, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas ; now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions ; with introductory notices (Thomas Rodd, 1850), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
A hundred merry tales: the earliest English jest-book. Now first reproduced in photolithography from the unique copy in the Royal Library at Göttingen. (J.W. Jarvis, 1887), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
The Menaechmi : original of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" : the Latin text together with the Elizabethan translation (Catto & Windus, 1912), by Titus Maccius Plautus, William Warner, and W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of the Shakespeare exhibition held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford : to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Shakespeare. (Printed for the Bodleian Library by F. Hall, 1916), by Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare : one aspect (University of Wisconsin, 1923), by Karl Young (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare and the Italian renaissance (Pub. for the British academy, by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1915), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Outlines of the life of Shakespeare (Longmans, Green, 1907), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
The Stratford records and the Shakespeare autotypes. A brief review of singular delusions that are current at Stratford-on-Avon. (J. G Bishop, 1884), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare-museum : eine sammlung neuer und alter, eigener und fremder, prosaischer und poetischer beiträge zur Shakespeare-literatur (Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1881), by Grammaticus Saxo, Francios de Belleforest, ROBERT. GERICKE, and Max Moltke (page images at HathiTrust)
Holinshed's Chronicle as used in Shakespeare's plays. (J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd;, 1927), by Raphael Holinshed, W. G. Boswell-Stone, Josephine Nicoll, and Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Plutarch's Coriolanus. (At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by Plutarch, William Shakespeare, R. H. Carr, and Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Our enchanted island (Edgartown, Massachusetts : Dukes County Historical Society, 1940., 1940), by Marshall Shepard and Dukes County Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakspere and euphuism. Euphues, an adaptation from Guevara. (1874), by Friedrich Landmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Outlines of the life of Shakespeare. (Longmans, Green, 1890), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from a new collation of the early editions: to which are added all the original novels and tales on which the plays are founded; copious archaeological annotations on each play; an essay on the formation of the text; and a life of the poet: by James O. Halliwell ... ([AMS Press], 1970), by William Shakespeare, F. W. Fairholt, and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare's Roman plays and their background, by Mungo William MacCallum (Gutenberg ebook)
Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616, by Henry Green (Gutenberg ebook)
Shakespeare Jest-Books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare, ed. by William Carew Hazlitt (Gutenberg ebook)
Montaigne and Shakspere, by J. M. Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)

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