Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature

List of Entries

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Alabaster, William
• Allen, William
• Almanacs
• Andrewes, Lancelot
• Anger, Jane
• Anonymity
• Ascham, Roger
• Askew, Anne
• Aubrey, John
• Audland/Audley, Anne
• Avery, Elizabeth
• Aylmer, John

B

• Bacon, Anne (Cooke)
• Bacon, Francis
• Baldwin, William
• Bale, John
• Ballads
• Barclay, Alexander
• Barnes, Barnabe
• Barnfield, Richard
• Barry, Lording
• Basset, Mary Roper Clarke
• Baxter, Richard
• Bayly, Lewis
• Beaufort, Margaret
• Beaumont, Francis
• Beaumont, Sir John
• Benlowes, Edward
• Berkenhead, John
• Bible, the
• Biddle, Hester
• Birch, William
• Blundeville, Thomas
• Bodley, Thomas
• Boece, Hector
• Bolton, Edmund
• Book of Common Prayer, the
• Boorde, Andrew
• Boyle, Robert
• Brackley, Elizabeth
• Bradstreet, Anne
• Brandon, Samuel
• Breton, Nicholas
• Brewer, Anthony
• Broadsheets
• Brome, Alexander
• Brome, Richard
• Brooke, Christopher
• Browne, Thomas
• Browne, William
• Bryan, Francis
• Bryskett, Lodowick
• Buchanan, George
• Bullein, William
• Bunyan, John
• Burton, Robert

C

• Camden, William
• Campion, Thomas
• Carew, Thomas
• Cartwright, William
• Cary, Elizabeth
• Cary, Lucius, Lord Falkland
• Cary, Mary
• Cavendish, George
• Cavendish, Jane
• Cavendish, Margaret
• Cavendish, William
• Caxton, William
• Chaloner, Thomas
• Chapman, George
• Cheke, John
• Chettle, Henry
• Chidley, Katherine
• Chillingworth, William
• Churchyard, Thomas
• Chute, Anthony
• Clarkson, Laurence
• Cleveland, John
• Clifford, Anne
• Clinton, Elizabeth
• Colet, John
• Collins, An
• Commonplace books
• Constable, Henry
• Copeland, Robert
• Coppe, Abiezer
• Corbett, Richard
• Coryate, Thomas
• Cotton, Charles, the younger
• Cowley, Abraham
• Cox, Leonard
• Cranmer, Thomas
• Crashaw, Richard
• Crooke, Helkiah
• Crowley, Robert
• Cudworth, Ralph

D

• Daniel, Samuel
• Davenant, William
• Davies, Lady Eleanor
• Davies, Sir John
• Day, John
• De Vere, Edward, earl of Oxford
• Dekker, Thomas
• Delaval, Elizabeth
• Deloney, Thomas
• Denham, John
• Devereux, Robert, earl of Essex
• Digby, Kenelm
• Donne, John
• Douglas, Gawin
• Dowland, John
• Dowriche, Anne
• Drant, Thomas
• Drayton, Michael
• Drummond, William
• Dryden, John
• Dunbar, William
• Dury, John
• Dyer, Edward

E

• Edwards, Richard
• Edwards, Thomas
• Elizabeth I
• Elyot, Thomas
• Emblem books
• Evelyn, John

F

• Fage, Mary
• Fairfax, Edward
• Fanshawe, Lady Ann
• Fanshawe, Richard
• Farnaby, Thomas
• Fell, Margaret
• Fenner, Dudley
• Fenton, Geoffrey
• Ferrers, George
• Fisher, Payne
• Fitzgeffrey, Henry
• Fleming, Abraham
• Fletcher, John
• Fletcher, Phineas
• Florio, John
• Ford, John
• Fox, George
• Foxe, John
• Fraunce, Abraham
• Fulwell, Ulpian

G

• Gardiner, Stephen
• Gascoigne, George
• Gilbert, Humphrey
• Godolphin, Sidney
• Godwin, Francis
• Golding, Arthur
• Goodman, Christopher
• Googe, Barnabe
• Gorges, Arthur
• Gosson, Stephen
• Gouge, William
• Grafton, Richard
• Greene, Robert
• Greville, Fulke
• Griffin, Bartholomew
• Grimald, Nicholas
• Grymeston, Elizabeth
• Guilpin, Everard

H

• Habington, William
• Hake, Edward
• Hakluyt, Richard
• Hales, John
• Halkett, Anne
• Hall, Edward
• Hall, John, of Durham
• Hall, Joseph
• Harington, John, the elder
• Harington, John, the younger
• Harley, Lady Brilliana
• Harrington, James
• Harrison, William
• Hartlib, Samuel
• Harvey, Gabriel
• Harvey, Richard
• Harvey, William
• Haughton, William
• Hawes, Stephen
• Hayward, John
• Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
• Herbert, George
• Herbert, Mary (Sidney), countess of Pembroke
• Herrick, Robert
• Heywood, John
• Heywood, Thomas
• Higgins, John
• Hobbes, Thomas
• Hoby, Lady Margaret
• Hoby, Thomas
• Holinshed, Raphael
• Holland, Philemon
• Hooker, Richard
• Horman, William
• Hoskyns, John
• Howard, Anne, countess of Arundel
• Howard, Henry, earl of Surrey
• Howell, James
• Howell, Thomas
• Hughes, Thomas
• Hume, Alexander
• Hume, Anna
• Humphrey, Laurence
• Hutchinson, Lucy
• Hyde, Edward, earl of Clarendon

I

• No Entries

J

• James VI and I
• Jekyll, Elizabeth
• Jewel, John
• Jinner, Sarah
• Jocelin, Elizabeth
• Johnson, Cicely and Thurgood, Rose
• Johnson, Richard
• Jones, Inigo
• Jonson, Ben
• Jordan, Thomas

K

• Kempe, William
• Kendall, Timothy
• King, Henry
• Knolles, Richard
• Knox, John
• Kyd, Thomas

L

• Lanyer, Aemelia
• Latimer, Hugh
• Leigh, Dorothy
• Leland, John
• Leslie, John
• Letters in print
• Libels
• Lilburne, John
• Lilly, William
• Lindsay, David
• Lisle, William
• Lithgow, William
• Llwyd, Humphrey
• Llwyd, Morgan
• Lodge, Thomas
• Lodwick, Francis
• Lok, Anne
• Love, Mary
• Lovelace, Richard
• Lumley, Jane
• Lupton, Thomas
• Lyly, John

M

• Mair, John
• Major, Elizabeth
• Marginalia
• Markham, Gervase
• Marlowe, Christopher
• Marprelate, Martin
• Marshall, William
• Marston, John
• Martin, Dorcas
• Marvell, Andrew
• Massinger, Philip
• May, Thomas
• Medwall, Henry
• Melville, Elizabeth
• Melville, Elizabeth
• Mennes, John, and Smith, James
• Meres, Francis
• Middelton, Elizabeth
• Middleton, Thomas
• Mildmay, Grace
• Milton, John
• Moffett, Thomas
• Montagu, Walter
• More, Henry
• More, Margaret
• More, Thomas
• Morison, Richard
• Moryson, Fynes
• Moulsworth, Martha
• Moulton, Thomas
• Munday, Anthony

N

• Nashe, Thomas
• Nedham, Marchamont
• Neville, Frances
• Neville, Henry
• Newsletters
• Niccols, Richard
• Norden, John
• Northbrooke, John
• Norton, Thomas

O

• Ogilby, John
• Osborne, Dorothy
• Overton, Richard
• Owen, Jane
• Oxlie, Mary

P

• Pace, Richard
• Painter, William
• Palsgrave, John
• Parker, Henry
• Parker, Martin
• Parr, Katherine
• Paynell, Thomas
• Peacham, Henry
• Peele, George
• Peend, Thomas de la
• Percy, William
• Pettie, George
• Petty, William
• Phillips [Phillip], John
• Phillips, Katherine
• Platt, Hugh
• Ponet, John
• Poole, Elizabeth
• Porter, Henry
• Preston, Thomas
• Primrose, Diana
• Prynne, William
• Psalms and Psalters, metrical
• Pulter, Hester
• Purchas, Samuel
• Puttenham, George

Q

• Quarles, Francis

R

• Rainolds, John
• Ralegh, Walter
• Randolph, Thomas
• Rastell, John
• Ravenscroft, Thomas
• Recipe books
• Rich, Barnabe
• Rich, Mary
• Richardson, Elizabeth
• Rogers, John
• Roper, William
• Rowlands, Samuel
• Rowley, William
• Russell, Lucy

S

• Sackville, Thomas, earl of Dorset
• Sander, Nicholas
• Sandys, George
• Saxton, Christopher
• Scot, Reginald
• Scott, Alexander
• Selden, John
• Sermons
• Sexby, Edward
• Seymour sisters
• Shakespeare, William
• Shelton, Mary
• Shepherd, Luke
• Shirley, James
• Sidney, Philip
• Sidney, Robert, earl of Leicester
• Skelton, John
• Smith, Thomas
• Southwell, Anne
• Southwell, Robert
• Sowernam, Ester
• Speed, John
• Speght, Rachel
• Spenser, Edmund
• St German, Christopher
• Stafford, Dorothy (née Devereux)
• Stanbridge, John
• Stanley, Thomas
• Stanyhurst, Richard
• Starkey, Thomas
• Sterry, Peter
• Stow, John
• Streater, John
• Strode, William
• Stubbes, Philip
• Suckling, Sir John
• Sutcliffe, Alice
• Swetnam, Joseph
• Sylvester, Joshua

T

• Taylor, Jeremy
• Taylor, John
• Thimelby, Gertrude
• Thomas, William
• Thornton, Alice
• Tichborne, Chidiock
• Tofte, Robert
• Totney, Thomas [later Theaurau John Tany]
• Tourneur, Cyril
• Townshend, Aurelian
• Traherne, Henry
• Traherne, Thomas
• Trapnel, Anna
• Turbevile, George
• Tusser, Thomas
• Twysden, Anna
• Tyler, Margaret
• Tyndale, William
• Tyrwhit, Elizabeth

U

• Udall, Nicholas
• Underdown, Thomas
• Urquhart, Thomas

V

• Vaughan, Henry
• Vaughan, Thomas
• Verse miscellanies, manuscript
• Verse miscellanies, printed
• Verstegan, Richard

W

• Waller, Edmund
• Walton, Izaak
• Walwyn, William
• Warner, William
• Watson, Thomas
• Weamys, Anna
• Webbe, William
• Webster, John
• Weever, John
• Weston, Elizabeth Jane
• Wheare, Degory
• Wheathill, Anne
• Whetstone, George
• Whichcote, Benjamin
• White, Robert
• Whitney, Geoffrey
• Whitney, Isabella
• Whittinton, Robert
• Whythorne, Thomas
• Wight, Sarah
• Wild, Robert
• Wilkins, John
• Wilson, Robert
• Wilson, Thomas
• Winstanley, Gerrard
• Wither, George
• Wolley, Hannah
• Wotton, Henry
• Wright, Thomas
• Wroth, Mary
• Wyatt, Thomas

X

• No Entries

Y

• No Entries

Z

• No Entries