Editions of Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Excerpts of Lanyer's Work in Anthologies

Entries on Lanyer in Reference Works and Anthologies

Articles and Books Addressing Lanyer's Life and Work

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Editions of Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

• Salve Devs Rex Ivdaeorum. Containing, 1 The Passion of Christ. 2 Eues Apologie in defence of Women. 3 The Teares of the Daughters of Ierusalem. 4 The Salutation and Sorrow of the Virgine Marie. With diuers other things not vnfit to be read Written by Mistris Aemilia Lanyer, Wife to Captaine Alfonso Lanyer Seruant to the Kings Majestie. [First printing, with four-line publisher's imprint: "AT LONDON / Printed by Valentine Simmes for Richard Bonian, and / are to be sold at his Shop in Paules Church- / yard. Anno 1611."]
• Salve Devs . . . Written by Mistris Aemilia Lanyer . . . . [Second printing, with five-line imprint: "AT LONDON / Printed by Valentine Simmes for Richard Bonian, and are / to be sold at his Shop in Paules Churchyard, at the / Signe of the Floure de Luce and / Crowne. 1611."] [Short version of dedications: STC 15277; long version of dedications, STC 15277.5]
• Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. Ed. Danielle Clarke. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000. [original spelling] The Poems of Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Emilia Lanier. Ed A. L. Rowse. London: Cape, 1976; New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. [original spelling] The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Ed. Susanne Woods. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. [original spelling]
• Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary, The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Ed. Diane Purkiss. London: William Pickering, 1994. [modernized spelling]
• Salve Devs . . . Written by Mistris Aemilia Lanyer . . . . The Early Modern Englishwoman,1500-1700: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Vol. 10: The Poets, I: Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght and Diana Primrose. Ed Suzanne Woods, Betty S. Travitsky, and Patrick Cullen. Burlington, VT: Ashgate P, 2002. [facsimile]

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Excerpts of Lanyer's Work in Anthologies

• A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now. Ed. Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone. New York: Schocken Books, 1992.
• The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose. Ed. Alan Rudrum, et al. Ontario: Broadview P, 2000.
• The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items. Ed. Alastair Fowler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. [modernized spelling version of "The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology. Ed. Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson, with Meg Bateman, Kate Chedgzoy, and Julie Saunders. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. ["Eves Apology" from the "Salve Deus" and "The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• English Women's Poetry. Ed. R. E. Pritchard. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990. ["The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• English Women's Voices, 1540-1700. Ed. Charlotte F. Otten. Miami: Florida International UP,1992. [brief mention of Lanyer]
• The Female Spectator: English Women Writers Before 1800. Ed. Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koon. Bloomington: Indiana UP; Old Westbury, NY: Feminist P, 1977. [modernized spelling versions of "The Author's Dream to the Lady Mary"; selection from "The Passion of Christ" from the "Salve Deus"]
• Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse. Ed. Germaine Greer, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone. London: Virago, 1985. ["The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse. Ed. Alastair Fowler. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. [modernized spelling versions of "To the Lady Arabella"; excerpt from "To the Lady Anne"; "Eves Apologie" from the "Salve Deus"]
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1. 6th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al. New York: Norton, 1993. [modernized spelling versions of "Eves Apologie" from the "Salve Deus"; "The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English. Ed. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. New York: Norton, 1985. [modernized spelling versions of "Eve's Apology" from the "Salve Deus"]
• The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance. Ed. Betty Travitsky. Westport, CN: Greenwood P. 1981. ["Salve Deus" ll. 1-175, 760-840, 985-1135, 1185-1272, 1825-1840]
• The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse, 1509-1659. Ed. David Norbrook and H. R.Woudhuysen. 1992. ["The Description of Cooke-ham" and excerpt from "Salve Deus"]
• Poetry by English Women: Elizabethan to Victorian. Ed. R. E. Pritchard. Manchester: Carcanet, 1990; New York: Continuum, 1993. ["The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• Renaissance Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael Payne and John Hunter. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. ["The Description of Cooke-ham"]
• Renaissance Women: Constructions of Femininity in England. Ed. Kate Aughterson. London: Routledge, 1995.
• Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Ed. Terence Dawson and Robert Scott Dupree. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. [modernized spelling version of "The Description of Cookham"]
• Women Poets of the Renaissance. Ed. Marion Wynne-Davies. London : J.M. Dent, 1998. [modernized spelling versions of "To the Queenes Most Excellent Majestie," "To All Vertuous Ladies in Generall," "To the Ladie Susan," "The Authors Dream  to the Ladie Marie," "To the Ladie Anne," "Salve Deus" lines 1-272, 745-1136, 1289-end, and "Cooke-ham"]
• Women Writers in Renaissance England. Ed. Randall Martin. London: Longman, 1997. [modernized spelling versions of "To the Virtuous Reader" and a substantial portion of the "Salve Deus"]

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Entries on Lanyer in Reference Works and Anthologies

• A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580-1720. Ed. Maureen Bell, George Parfitt, and Simon Shepherd. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
• The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. Marion Wynne-Davies. London: Bloomsbury, 1995.
• British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Continuum, 1989.
• The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Lorna Sage, with Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
• A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Ed. Anita Pacheco. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
• A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. "Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham" and Jonson's "To Penshurst." Nicole Pohl. Maldon, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
  
• Dictionary of British Women Writers. Ed. Janet Todd. London Routledge, 1979.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 121: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets. 1st series. Ed. M. Thomas Hester. Detroit, MI: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1992.
• Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Ed. C. S. Nicholls. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
• English Women's Voices 1540-1700. Ed. Charlotte F. Otten. Miami: Florida International UP, 1992.
• The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clement, and Isobel Grundy. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1990.
• Index of Dedications and Commendatory Verses in English Books Before 1641. Franklin B. Williams. London: Bibliographical Society, 1962.
• Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse. Ed. Germaine Greer, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone. London: Virago, 1985.
• The Literary Encyclopedia. "Aemilia Lanyer." Susanne Woods. 28 April 2004. The Literary Dictionary Company.
  
• The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
• Renaissance Women Online. "Contextual Materials for "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" by Aemilia Lanyer." Susanne Woods. Brown University Women Writers Project.
• Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Ed. Terence Dawson and Dupree. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
• Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England. Ed. Kathy Lynn Emerson. TrRobert Scott oy, NY: Whitston, 1984.
• Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Patterson Hannay. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000.
• The Whole Duty of a Woman: Female Writers in Seventeenth-Century England. Ed. Angeline Goreau. Garden City, NY: Dial P, 1984.

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Articles and Books Addressing Lanyer's Life and Work

• Balla, Angela. Immaterial Evidence: Piety and Proof in Early Modern England (Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton). Diss. U Michigan, 2003. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2004. AAI3106011. aballa@umich.edu
• Ballaster, Ros. "Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips." Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690. Ed. Gordon McMullan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 234-52. (brief mention)
• Barnstone, Aliki. "Women and the Garden: Andrew Marvell, Emilia Lanier, and Emily Dickinson." Women and Literature 2 (1982): 147-67.
• Barroll, Leeds. "Looking for Patrons." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 29-48.
• Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1987.
• Bennett, Evelyn Nora. Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Early Modern Poet. Diss. Dalhousie U, 2002. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2002. DANQ75717.
• ---. [under Bennett, Lyn.] Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne UP, 2004.
• Benson, Pamela Joseph. "The Stigma of Italy Undone: Aemilia Lanyer's Canonization of Mary Sidney." Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy. Ed. Pamela Joseph Benson and Victoria Kirkham. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2005. 146-75.
• ---."To Play the Man: Aemilia Lanyer and the Acquisition of Patronage." Opening the Borders: Inclusivity in Early Modern Studies; Essays in Honor of James V. Mirollo. Ed. Peter C. Herman. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999. 243-64.
• Berry, Boyd. "'Pardon . . . though I have digrest': Digression as Style in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 212-33.
• Bevington, David. "A. L. Rowse's Dark Lady." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 10-28.
• Bowen, Barbara. "Aemilia Lanyer and the Invention of White Womanhood." Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens. Ed. Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 274-303.
• --. "Beyond Shakespearean Exceptionalism." Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching,
•  Performance. Ed. Lloyd Davis. Neward, DE: U of Delaware P, 2003. 209-21.
• Calderón López, Maria Isabel. "'Cooke-Ham': El Apartado Paraíso Lírico de Aemilia Lanyer." Exilos Femeninos. Ed Pilar Cuder Domínguez. Huelva, Spain: Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer, 2000. 305-14.
• Campbell, Gardner. "The Figure of Pilate's Wife in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Renaissance Papers 1995: 1-13.
• Clare, Janet. "Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation." Renaissance Forum 1 (1996). Online.
• Clarke, Danielle. The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing. Edinburgh: Pearson, 2001
• Clifford, Anne (Herbert), Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery. The Memoir of 1603 and The Diary of 1616-1619. Ed Katherine O. Acheson. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Editions, 2007. [The book's Appendix A: Aemilia Lanyer, "To the Lady Anne, Countess of Dorset" and "The Description of Cooke-ham (191-206) discusses the poems at some length along with a modicum of criticism and reprints both poems in full.]
  
• Coiro, Ann Baynes. "Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and Class Position in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer." Criticism 35 (1993): 357-76.
• Comilang, Susan Carol. English Noblewomen and the Organization of Space: Gardens, Mourning Posts, and Religious Recesses. Diss. George Washington U, 2002. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2002. DA3032741
• Cook, Patrick. "Aemilia Lanyer's 'Description of Cooke-ham' as Devotional Lyric."  Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2001. 104-18.
• Cornell, Christine Anne. Unparadised Women: Royal Mistresses in Early Modern English Literature. Diss. Dalhousie U, 1994. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1996. DANN98826.
• David, Alfred. Teaching wih The Norton Anthology of English Literature: A Guide for Instructors. New York: Norton, 1993.
• De Lafontaine, H. C., ed. The King's Musick: A Transcript of Records Relating to Music and Musicians (1460-1700). London: Novello, 1909. Reprint New York: Da Capo P, 1973.
• DiPasquale, Theresa M. "Woman's Desire for Man in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99 (2000): 356-78. dipasqtm@whitman.edu
• Duerden, Richard Y. "Crossings: Class, Gender, Chiasmus, and the Cross in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." The Tradition of Metaphysical Poetry and Belief. Ed. Richard Y. Duerden and William Shullenberger.  Literature and Belief 19 (1999): 131-52. ryd@email.byu.edu
• Evans, Robert C., and Anne C. Little, eds. "The Muses females are": Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill P, 1995.
• Ezell, Margaret J. M. Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
• Farmer (Penne), Amy Lynn. The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth Century England. Diss. U of Illinois, Urbana, 2000. Ann Arbor,: UMI, 2000. 989989.
• Findlay, Alison. A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. [brief analysis 21-23]
• Flowers, Theresa. Bound By Words: Representations of Subjectivity in the Renaissance Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer. Undergrad. Thesis Univ. of Derby. teresa@flowers171.ndo.co.uk
• Frazer, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1984. Rpt. New York: Random House, 1985.
• Furey, Constance M. "The Real and Ideal in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36 (2006): 561-84.
• ---. "The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer. Harvard Theological Review 99 (2006): 469-86.
  
• Goldberg, Jonathan. "Canonizing Aemilia Lanyer." Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. 16-41.
• Grossman, Marshall. "The Gendering of Genre: Literary History and the Canon." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 128-42.
• ---., ed. Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998. Marshall_GROSSMAN@umail.umd.edu
• Guibbory, Achsah. "The Gospel According to Aemilia: Women and the Sacred in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Sacred and Profane: Secular and Devotional Interplay in Early Modern British Literature. Ed. Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd, and Alasdair MacDonald. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit UP, 1996. 105-26. Rev. and rpt. in Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 191-211.'
• Hageman, Elizabeth H. "Women's Poetry in Early Modern England." Women and Literature. Ed. Helen Wilcox. 190-208.'Hammond, Pamela S. Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. [brief mention of Lanyer's work]
• Hammons, Pamela S. "The Gendered Imagination of Property in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Women's Verse." CLIO 34.4 (Summer 2005): 395-418.
  
• Hannay, Margaret Patterson. Silent But For the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1985.
• Harp, Gerald Scott. Sense Metaphors of Cognition in Early Modern Texts. Diss. U of Iowa, 2002. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2002. DA3050805.
• Herz, Judith Scherer. "Aemilia Lanyer and the Pathos of Literary History." Representing Women in Renaissance England. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 121-35. jherz@vax2.concordia.ca
• Hodgson, Elizabeth M. A. "Prophecy and Gendered Mourning in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 43 (2003): 101-16.
• Holmes, Michael Morgan. Early Modern Metaphysical Literature: Nature, Custom and Strange Desires. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• ---. "The Love of Other Women: Rich Chains and Sweet Kisses." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 167-90.
• Hull, Suzanne W. Chaste, Silent and Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640. San Marino: Hunting Library, 1982.
• Hutson, Lorna. "Why the Lady's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun." New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts. Ed. Isobel Armstrong. London: Routledge, 1992. 154-75. Also in Women, Texts & Histories, 1575-1760. Ed. Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss. London: Routledge, 1992. 13-38.
• Jenkins, Hugh. "Petitions for Absolute Retreat: Genre and Gender in the Country-House Poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Finch." Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1998.
• Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Assimilation With a Difference: Renaissance Women Poets and Literary Influence." Yale French Studies 62 (1981): 135-53.
• ---. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric 1520-1640. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
• Katz, David S. The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1994.
• Kennedy, Gwynne. Just Anger: Representing Women's Anger in Early Modern England. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2000. [brief discussion]
• Keohane, Catherine. "'That Blindest Weakenesse Be Not Over-Bold': Aemilia Lanyer's Radical Unfolding of the Passion." ELH 64 (1997): 359-89.
• Krontiris, Tina. "Women of the Jacobean Court Defending Their Sex." Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance. London: Routledge, 1992. 102-20.
• Lamb, Mary Ellen. "Patronage and Class in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Ed. Mary E. Burke, Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1999. 38-57.
• Larson, Katherine R. "Reading the Space of the Closet in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2 (2007): 73-94.
  
• Lasocki, David. "Professional Recorder Playing in England, 1540-1740." Early Music 10 (1982): 23-29.
• ---. "The Anglo-Venetian Bassano Family as Instrument Makers and Repairers." Galpin Society Journal 38 (1985): 112-32.
• ---. The Bassanos: Anglo-Venetian and Venetian." Early Music 14 (1986): 558-60.
• ---, and Roger Prior. The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1995.
• Lee, Jin-Ah. "Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: Feminized Jesus and Renaissance Woman's Writing." Journal of English Language and Literature 45 (1999): 11-34. [Abstract in English; article in Korean]
• Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. "Of God and Good Women: The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer." Silent But For the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works. Ed. Margaret Patterson 
  
• ---. "The Lady of the Country House Poem." The Fashioning and Functioning of the British Country House. Ed. Gervase Jackson-Stops, Gordon J. Schochet, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Elisabeth Blair McDougall. Hanover: National Gallery of Art, 1989. 261-75.
• ---. "Old Renaissance Canons, New Women's Texts: Some Jacobean Examples." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 138 (1994): 397-406.
• ---. "Rewriting Patriarchy and Patronage: Margaret Clifford, Anne Clifford, and Aemilia Lanyer." The Yearbook of English Studies 21 (1991): 87-106.---. "Seizing Discourses and Reinventing Genres." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 49-59.
• ---. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Longfellow, Erica. "Ecce Homo: The Spectacle of Christ's Passion in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 59-91. e.longfellow@kingston.ac.uk
• Loughlin, Marie H. "'Fast ti'd unto them in a golden Chaine': Typology, Apocalypse, and Women'st Genealogy in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 133-79.<>
• Marder, Louis. "The Dark Lady: Demise of a Theory." Shakespeare Newsletter 23 (1973): 24.
• Matchinske, Megan. "Credible Consorts: What Happens When Shakespeare's Sisters Enter the Syllabus?" Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 433-50.
• Matheson, Sue. "Religious Reconstruction of Feminine Spirituality: Reading Past the Praise in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Conducting Spirituality. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2004. 51-68.
• McBride, Kari Boyd. Country House Discourse in Early Modern England: A Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy. Aldershot: Ashgate P, 2001.
• ---. Engendering Authority in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Diss. U Arizona, 1994. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1994. 9426325.
• ---. "Gender and Judaism in Meditations on the Passion: Middleton, Southwell, Lanyer, and Fletcher." Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2001. 17-40.
• ---. "Remembering Orpheus in the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 38 (1998): 87-108.
• ---. "Sacred Celebration: The Patronage Poems." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender,Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 60-82.
• ---, and John C. Ulreich. "Answerable Styles: Biblical Poetics and Biblical Politics in the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer and John Milton." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001): 333-54.
• ---, and John C. Ulreich. "'Eves Apologie': Agrippa, Lanyer, and Milton." "All in All": Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective. Ed. Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt. Selinsgrove: Susquahanna UP, 1999. 100-11.
• McGrath, Lynette. "'Let Us Have Our Libertie Againe': Amelia Lanier's 17th-Century Feminist Voice." Women's Studies 20 (1992): 331-48.
• ---. "Metaphoric Subversions: Feasts and Mirrors in Amelia Lanier's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." LIT 3 (1991): 101-13.
• ---. Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.
• Miller, Noami J. "(M)other Tongues: Maternity and Subjectivity." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 143-66. nmiller@ccit.arizona.edu
• ---. "Ruling Women in Jacobean England." Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Newark: Associated UP, 2000. 247-67.
• Miller, Shannon. "'Mirrours More then One: Edmund Spenser and Female Authority in the Seventeenth Century." Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. 125-47.
• Moon, Hi Kyung. "Gender, Class and Patronage: Aemilia Lanyer's Country-House Poem, 'The Description of Cooke-ham.'" Feminist Studies in English Literature 9 (2002): 95-118.
• Morin-Parsons, Kel. "Loose My Speche": Anne Locke's Sonnets and the Matrilineal Protestant Poetic. Diss. U of Ottawa, 2001. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2002. DANQ66176.
• Morton, Lynn Moorhead. "Vertue Cladde in Constant Love's Attire" : The Countess of Pembroke as a Model for Renaissance Women Writers. Dissertation. University of South Carolina. 1993.
• Mueller, Janel. "The Feminist Poetics of Aemilia Lanyer's 'Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.'" Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. Ed. Lynn Keller and Christianne Miller. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993. 208-36. Rev. and rpt. in Aemilia Lanyer: Gender Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 234-54.
• Nelson, Karen L. "Annotated Bibliography: Texts and Criticism of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 234-54.
• Ng, Su Fang. "Aemilia Lanyer and the Politics of Praise." ELH 67 (2000): 433-51.
• Ongaro, Giulio M. "New Documents on the Bassano Family." Early Music 20 (1992): 409-13.
• ---. "Sixteenth-Century Venetian Wind Instrument Makers and Their Clients." Early Music 13 (1985): 391-97.
• Otten, Charlotte F. English Women's Voices 1540-1700. Miami: Florida International UP, 1992. [brief mention of Lanyer]
• Parfitt, George. "Poetry By Women." English Poetry of the Seventeenth-Century. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1992.
• Parker, Patricia. What's in a Name: And More." Sederi XI: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses. Ed. Pilar Cuder Domínguez, Zenón Luis Martínez, Sonia Villegas López, Jorge Casanova García, Beatriz Domínguez García, and Auxiliadora Pérez Vides. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2002. 101-49. [brief discussion of Lanyer's Italian lineage]
• Pearson, Jacqueline. "Women Writers and Women Readers: the Case of Aemilia Lanier." Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Ed. Kate Chegdzoy, Suzanne Trill and Melanie Hansen. Keele, UK: Keele UP, 1996. 45-54.
• Phillippy, Patricia. "The Sisters of Magdalen: Women's Mourning and the Aesthetics of Embalming in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." English Literary Renaissance 31 (2001): 78-106.
• Powell, Brenda J. "'Witnesse thy wife (o Pilate) speakes for all': Aemilia Lanyer's Strategic Self-Positioning." Christianity and Literature 46 (1996): 5-23.
• Power-Smith, Michelle. "Aemilia Lanyer: Redeeming Women Through Faith and Poetry (part 1)." Suite101.com. 12 April 2000. <http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4166/36667>.
• ---. "Aemilia Lanyer: Redeeming Women Through Faith and Poetry (part 2)." Suite101.com. 12 April 2000. <http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/church_history/37144>.
• Prior, Roger. "Æmilia Lanyer and Queen Elizabeth at Cookham." Cahiers Elisabéthains: Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies 63 (2003): 17-32.
• ---."Jewish Musicians at the Tudor Court." Musical Quarterly 69 (1983): 253-65.
• ---. "More (Moor? Moro?): Light on the Dark Lady." Financial Times (London) 10 Oct 1987: 17.
• ---. "Second Jewish Community in Tudor London." Jewish Historical Studies 31 (1988-90): 137-52.
• ---. "The Passion of a Female Literary Tradition: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Huntington Library Quarterly 63 (2000): 435-46.
• ---. "Was Emilia Lanier the Dark Lady?" Shakespeare Newsletter 25 (1975): 26.
• Purkiss, Diane. "Introduction." Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary, The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. London: William Pickering, 1994. vii-xlvii.
• Ramsey, Paul. "Darkness Lightened: A. L. Rowse's Dark Lady Once More." The Upstart Crow 5 (1984): 143-45.
• ---. The Fickle Glass: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. New York: AMS P, 1979.
• Reed, Nancy Ellen Elizabeth. "Reclaiming the Garden: The Poetry of a Christian Feminist." Master's Thesis. 1992.
• Rienstra, Debra. "Dreaming Authorship: Aemilia Lanyer and the Countess of Pembroke." Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2001. 80-103.
• Richey, Esther Gilman. "Subverting Paul: The True Church and the Querelle des Femmes in Aemilia Lanyer." The Politics of Revelation in the English Renaissance. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998. 60-83.
• ---. "'To Undoe the Booke': Cornelius Agrippa, Aemilia Lanyer and the Subversion of Pauline Authority." English Literary Renaissance 27 (1997): 106-28.
• Roberts, Josephine A. "Diabolic Dreamscape in Lanyer and Milton." Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Patterson Hannay. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. 299-302.
• ---. "'My Inward House': Women's Autobiographical Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century." "The Muses females are." Ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little.129-37.
• ---. "'Thou maist have thy Will': The Sonnets of Shakespeare and his Step-Sisters." Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 407-23.
• Rogers, John. "The Passion of a Female Literary Tradition: Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Huntington Library Quarterly 63 (2000): 435-46.
• Roberts, Wendy Miller. "Gnosis in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 59.2 (Fall 2005): 11-28.
  
• Rowse, A. L. Annotated Shakespeare. 2 vols. New York: C. N. Potter, 1978.
• ---. Prefaces to Shakespeare's Plays. London: Orbis, 1984.
• ---. "Revealed At Last, Shakespeare's Dark Lady." The Times 29 Jan 1973: 12. [See also ensuing correspondence 1 Feb: 17; 2 Feb: 15; 3 Feb: 15; 6 Feb: 15; 14 Feb: 15; 15 Feb: 19; 17 Feb: 15; 20 Feb: 15; 22 Feb: 17.]
• ---. "Shakespeare and the Musicians from Venice." Contemporary Review 268 (1996): 33-37.
• ---. "Shakespeare's Dark Lady." The Poems of Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Emilia Lanier. Ed. A. L. Rowse. London: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.
• ---, ed. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved. 2d ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
• ---. Shakespeare the Man. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
• ---. Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. Also published as Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age: Simon Forman the Astrologer. New York: Scribner, 1974.
• ---. What Shakespeare Read--and Thought. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981.
• Ruffatti, Alessio. "Italian Musicians at the Tudor Court--Were They Really Jews?" Jewish Historical Studies 35 (1996-1998): 1-14.
• Sanford, Rhonda Lemke. "Dwelling in Possibility: Aemilia Lanyer and Female Recovery of Paradise" and "Textual History of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." A Sense of Place: Maps and Their Representations in English Renaissance Literature. Diss. U of Colorado at Boulder, 1998. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1994. 9919684. 146-83.
• Schleiner, Louise. "Discourse Analysis and Literary Study: Aemilia Lanyer's "Epistle" as Sample Text." Mosaic 30 (1997): 15-37.
• ---. Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994.
• Schnell, Lisa. "Breaking 'the rule of Cortezia': Aemilia Lanyer's Dedications to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997): 77-102.
• ---. "The Fetter'd Muse": Renaissance Women Writers and the Idea of a Literary Career. Dissertation. Princeton University. 1990.
• ---. "'So Great a Diffrence Is There in Degree': Aemilia Lanyer and the Aims of Feminist Criticism." Modern Language Quarterly 57 (1996): 23-35.
• --- "'So great a diffrence is there in degree': Aemilia Lanyer and the Critique of Aristocratic Privilege. In Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing. Ed Andrew Barnaby and Lisa Schnell. New York: Palgrave; Houndsmills: Macmillan, 2002. 91-122.
• Schoenbaum, Samuel. "Shakespeare, Dr Forman and Dr Rowse." Shakespeare and Others. London: Scholar P, 1985.
• ---. Shakespeare's Lives. New ed. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991.
• ---. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. 1997. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.
• Schoenfeldt, Michael. "The Gender of Religious Devotion: Amelia Lanyer and John Donne." Religion and Culture in Renaissance England. Ed. Claire McEachern and Debora Shuger.Los Angeles: U of California P, 1997. 209-33.
• Seelig, Sharon Cadman. "'To All Vertuous Ladies in Generall': Aemilia Lanyer's Community of Strong Women." Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2000. 44-58.
• Shea, Colleen. "Literary Authority as Cultural Criticism in Aemilia Lanyer's The Authors Dreame." English Literary Renaissance 32 (2002): 386-407.
• Siegfried, B. R. "An Apology for Knowledge: Gender and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation in the Works of Aemilia Lanyer and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Early Modern Literary Studies 6.3 (January 2001): 5.1-47 http://purl.oclc.org/emls/06-3/siegapol.htm.
  
• Smith, Barbara, and Ursula Appelt. Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
• Silcox, Mary V. "Aemilia Lanyer and Virtue." Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Patterson Hannay. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. 295-98.
• Sondergard, Sidney L. "'When this sweet of-spring of thy body dies': Aemilia Lanyer's Polemical Passion."  Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers.  Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 2002. 87-99.
• Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford: Countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery (1590-1676). Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997. [very brief mention]
• Sterling, Eric. "Women Writers of the English Renaissance: A Chronology of Texts and Contexts." "The Muses females are." Ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little. 281-310.
• Tait, Simon. "Unmasked--The Identity of Shakespeare's Dark Lady." 7 Dec 2003. The Independent. http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article81490.ece. Accessed 9 Nov 2005.
  
• Travitsky, Betty S. "The Possibilities of Prose." Women and Literature. Ed. Helen Wilcox. 34-66.
• ---, and Adele F. Seeff, eds. Attending to Women in Early Modern England. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.
• Trill, Suzanne. "Feminism versus Religion: Towards a Re-Reading of Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 25 (2001): 67-80.
• ---. "Reflected Desire: The Erotics of the Gaze in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens. Ed. Claire McManus. London: Palgrave, 2003. 167-92.
• Ulreich, John C., and Kari Boyd McBride. "Answerable Styles: Biblical Poetics and Biblical Politics in the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer and John Milton." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001): 333-54.
• ---, and Kari Boyd McBride. "'Eves Apologie': Agrippa, Lanyer, and Milton."'All in All': Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective. Ed. Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt. Selinsgrove: Susquahanna UP, 1999. 100-11.
• Walker, Kim. Women Writers of the English Renaissance. New York: Twayne, 1996.
• Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.
• ---. "Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of Authorship." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Ed. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany: State U of New York P, 1993. 51-71.
• ---. The Shapes of Desire: Politics, Publication and Renaissance Texts. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania. 1989.
• Wayne, Don E. "'A More Safe Survey': Social-Property Relations, Hegemony, and the Rhetoric of Country Life." Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S. K. Heninger Jr. Ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Weisner, Merry E. "Women's Defense of Their Public Role." Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives. Ed. Mary Beth Rose. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1986.
• White, Micheline. "A Woman with St. Peter's Keys?: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the Priestly Gifts of Renaissance Women." Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 45 (2003): 323-41. mwhite2@ccs.carleton.ca
• Wilcox, Helen. "'Whom the Lord with love affecteth': Gender and the Religious Poet, 1590-1633. 'This Double Voice': Gendered Writing in Early Modern England. Ed. Danielle Clarke and Elizabeth Clarke. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. 185-207.
• ---, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Wood, Michael. Shakespeare. New York: Basic Books, 2003. [popular account that assumes Lanyer's identity as the dark lady of the sonnets]
• Woodbridge, Linda. "Dark Ladies: Women, Social History, and English Renaissance Literature." Shakespeare Review spring 1997. [very brief mention of Lanyer]
• Woods, Susanne. "Aemilia Lanyer." Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Patterson Hannay. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. 155-63.
• ---. "Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson: Patronage, Authority, and Gender." Ben Jonson Journal 1 (1994): 15-30.
• ---. Anne Lock and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking." Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Newark: Associated UP, 2000. 171-84.
• ---. "Introduction." The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. xv-xlii.
• ---. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
• ---. "Lanyer and Southwell: A Protestant Woman's Re-Vision of St. Peter." Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way. Ed. Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2004. 73-86.
• ---. "Vocation and Authority: Born to Write." Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman. 83-98.
• ---. "Women at the Margins in Spenser and Lanyer." Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. 101-14.
• Wright, Louis B. "The Reading of Renaissance Englishwomen." Studies in Philology 28 (1931): 139-57.

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Work Forthcoming, Unpublished Work, and Work in Progress

• Burow-Flak, Elizabeth. University of Texas at Austin. "Lanyer: Communing With Patron Saints." Saints, Seventeenth-Century Women Devotional Writers, and Writing the Textual Body. Dissertation in process. bflak@mail.utexas.edu
• ---. "Mystical Economies: Aemilia Lanyer and the Communion of Female Patronage." Paper delivered at Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Dallas Texas, October 1995.
• DiPasquale, Theresa M. "'Shee onely': The Priesthood of Woman and the Womanhood of the Church in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Saving Graces: Woman and the Redemption of Man in Seventeenth-Century Poetry. dipasqtm@whitman.edu
• Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie. “The Renaissance Prophetess:  Paradise According to Aemilia Lanyer.” wendy-hoofnagle@kvcc.edu
• Malcolmson, Christina. "Early Modern Women Writers and the Gender Debate: Did Aemilia Lanyer Read Christine de Pisan?" cmalcolm@bates.edu
• McBride, Kari Boyd, and John C. Ulreich. "Radical Conformity: Aemilia Lanyer and the Book of Common Prayer." kari@u.arizona.edujcu@u.arizona.edu
• Sanford, Rhonda Lemke. "Private Property and Privation: Aemelia Lanyer and Female Recovery of Paradise." Private Matters in Seventeenth Century England. Modern Language Association Conference, 2003. San Diego. Rhonda.Sanford@colorado.edu

Fictionalized Accounts

• Cowell, Stephani. The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare. New York: Norton, 1997.
  
• Cuneo, Anne. Objets de splendeur: Mr. Shakespeare amoureux: un récit. Yvonand: B. Campiche, 1996. Published in German as Dark Lady. Ein Roman um Shakespeares Große Liebe. Zürich: Gebundene Ausgabe, 1998.
• Lewis, Roy Harley. The Manuscript Murders. London: Robert Hale, 1981; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
• Tiffany, Grace. Will. New York: Berkley Books, 2004.
  

This bibliography has benefited greatly from comparison with Karen L. Nelson's annotated bibliography in Aemilia Lanyer:
Gender, Genre, and the Canon, ed. Marshall Grossman. Thanks also to Charlene Ball for suggesting additions.