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Using the Simple Keyword search, try these keyword terms:

• Renaissance literature
• Shakespeare and love

Using a Subject search, try these topics:

• love in literature
• European literature Renaissance

Selected authors and works from the Renaissance Period

16th Century:

• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlow
• Sir Walter Ralegh
• Edmund Spenser
• John Skelton
• Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
• Sir Thomas Moore

17th Century

• John Donne
• John Milton
• Ben Jonson
• Francis Bacon
• Robert Herrick
• Richard Crashaw

Below are some books available at the ARC Library. Use the Library Catalog to find more books located at the ARC Library as well as the other college libraries located within the Los Rios Community College District (CRC, FLC, SCC, and EDC).

Look in the index and/or table of contents to find page number references for your topic.

1.  Two-hour reserve book: The Norton Anthology of English Literature

2.  The Greenwood companion to Shakespeare: A Comprehensive Guide for Students / edited by Joseph Rosenblum

3.  Shakespeare on Love and Friendship / Allan Bloom

4.  All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World / Kirstin Olsen

5.  Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements, Volume 1 / David Galens, Project Editor

6.  Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature / James Wyatt Cook

7.  World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them / Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk 

8.  The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Robert Matz

9.  The Norton Anthology of Poetry / Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy

10.  The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 1 / Peter Simon, editor

Links to Renaissance Sources

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