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Books

Allen, Percy. The Plays of Shakespeare and Chapman in Relation to French History. London: Archer, 1933.

Ashton, Harry. Du Bartas en Angleterre. 1908; Geneva: Slatkine, 1969.

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Britland, Karen. Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Cotgrave, Randall. A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611). Anglistica and Americana. Hildesheim: Georg Holms, 1970.

Dorval Patricia and Jean-Marie Maguin, ed. Shakespeare et la France. Paris: Société Française Shakespeare, 2000.

Ellrodt, Robert. Montaigne et Shakespeare: L’émergence de la conscience moderne. Paris: Corti, 2025.

Gillies, John. Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Gillies, John, and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds. Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.

Helgerson, Richard. Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.

Hillman, Richard. French Origins of English Tragedy. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2010.

Hillman, Richard. French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic: Three Case Studies. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2015.

Hillman, Richard. Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

Hillman, Richard. The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2020.

Hiscock, Andrew. Authority and Desire: Crises of Interpretation in Shakespeare and Racine. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Hoenselaars, A.J. Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: A Study of Stage Characters and National Identity in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; Associated Presses, 1992.

Jolly, Margrethe. Shakespeare’s French Connection: How the History, Literature and Culture of France Permeate the Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2024.

Jondorf, Gillian. Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969.

Kirk, Andrew M. The Mirror of Confusion: The Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama. Garland Studies in the Renaissance 6; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1928. New York: Garland, 1996.

Lambin, Georges. Voyages de Shakespeare en France et en Italie. Genève: E. Droz, 1962.

Lee, Maurice, Jr. James I and Henri IV: An Essay in English Foreign Policy 1603-1610. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970.

Lee, Sidney. The French Renaissance in England: An Account of the Literary Relations of England and France in the Sixteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1910.

Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica. Re-Imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Maxwell, Ian. French Farce and John Heywood. Melbourne and London: Melbourne UP in association with Oxford UP, 1946.

Mceachern, Claire. The Poetics of English Nationhood: 1500-1612. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Melehy, Hassan. The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Morse, Ruth, ed. Shakespeare, les français, les France. Cahiers Charles V 45 (2008).

Parmelee, Lisa Ferraro. Good Newes from Fraunce: French Anti-League Propaganda in Late Elizabethan England. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 1996.

Prescott, Anne Lake. French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

Prescott, Anne Lake. Imagining Rabelais in the English Renaissance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Richmond, Hugh. Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1981.

Riemer, Seth Daniel. National biases in French and English drama. New York: Garland, 1990.

Robertson, John. M. Montaigne and Shakespeare, and Other Essays on Cognate Questions. 2nd ed. London: Black, 1909.

Saenger, Michael. Shakespeare and the French Borders of English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Salmon, J.H.M. The French religious wars in English political thought. Oxford: Clarendon, 1959.

Schelling, Felix Emmanuel. Foreign Influences in Elizabethan Plays. New York:, AMS Press, 1971 [1923].

Seward, Desmond. Henry V: The Scourge of God. New York: Viking Penguin, 1987.

Smith, Robert Metcalf. Froissart and the English Chronicle Play. Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, New York: Blom, 1965.

Sutherland, Nicola Mary. The Massacre of St Bartholomew and the European Conflict 1559-1572. London: Macmillan, 1973.

Taylor, George Coffin. Shakspere's Debt to Montaigne. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Villey, Pierre. Montaigne et François Bacon. Geneva: Slatkine, 1973.

Williams, Deanne. "Coming to Terms: The Trouble with French in Early Modern England." Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 2000. DAI No.: DA9986220.

Williams, Deanne. The French fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Witherspoon, Alexander Maclaren. The Influence of Robert Garnier on Elizabethan Drama. Yale Studies in English, 65. 1924; rpt. Hamdon, CT: Archon Books, 1968.

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Articles in journals and book articles

Briggs, Julia. "Marlowe's Massacre at Paris: A Reconsideration." Review of English Studies 34 (1983): 257-278.

Bruster, Douglas. "Shakespeare’s Lady 8." Shakespeare Quarterly 66.1 (2025): 47-88.

Cottegnies, Line. "Les jésuites lisent Shakespeare: Pratiques de lecture ‘Réservée’ dans un collège jésuite anglais du XVIIe siècle [The Jesuits Read Shakespeare: Reading Practice ‘Reserved’ in a Seventeenth-Century English Jesuit College]." La Haine de Shakespeare [Shakespeare’s Hatred]. Ed. Élisabeth Angel-Perez and François Lecercle. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris Sorbonne, 2025. 15-34.

Cottegnies, Line. "The Saint-Omer Folio in Its Library." Cahiers Élisabéthains 93.1 (2025): 13-32.

Cotterill, Rowland. "The Structural Role of France in Shakespeare's First and Second Historical Tetralogies." Renaissance Studies 9.4 (1995): 460-76.

Ellrodt, Robert. "Self-Consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare." Shakespeare Survey 28 (1975): 37-50.

Gadaleto, Michael. "Shakespeare’s Bastard Nation: Skepticism and the English Isle in King John." Shakespeare Quarterly 69.1 (2025): 3-34.

Goy-Blanquet, Dominique. "‘This Realm Is an Empire’: Tales of Origins in Medieval and Early Modern France and England." Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Ed. Janice Valls-Russell et al. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2025. 65-85.

Griffin, Aurélie. "The Princess of France: Difference and Dif(Fé)Rance in Love’s Labour’s Lost." The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens. Ed. Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 395-411.

Han, Younglim. "The Image of Cordelia as a Foreigner: From a Character of the History to the Tragedy." Shakespeare Review (Seoul) 53.3 (2025): 411-29.

Hillman, Richard. "La Création du monde et The Taming of the Shrew: Du Bartas comme intertexte." Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 15 (1991): 249-258.

Hillman, Richard. "Des Champs faëz de Claude de Taillemont au labyrinthe du Songe shakespearien, en passant par le Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne." Studi Francesi 48 (2004): 3-18.

Hillman, Richard. "Absence et Présence de la ville de Rouen dans deux pièces de Shakespeare traitant de la guerre de Cent Ans." Images de la Guerre de Cent Ans. Actes du Collogue de Rouen 21-23 mai 2000. Ed. Daniel Couty, Jean Maurice and Michèle Guéret-Laferté. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. 209-217.

Hillman, Richard. "Entre Shakespeare et Montaigne : quelque nouveaux tours d'escrime." Shakespeare et Montaigne, vers un nouvel humanisme. Actes du congrès organisé par la Société Française Shakespeare en Oxford-Warburg Studies collaboration avec la Société Internationale des Amis de Montaigne, Paris, le 13, 14 et 15 mars 2003. Ed. Jean -Marie Maguin and Pierre Kapitaniak. Paris: La Société Française Shakespeare, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université de Paris III- Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004. 135-153.

Hillman, Richard. "The Tragic Channel-Crossings of George Chapman, Part I: Bussy D'Ambois and The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron." Cahiers Élisabéthains 45 (2004): 25-43.

Hillman, Richard. "La Pucelle sur la scène littéraire et politique : le trajet Pont-à-Mousson - Londres." Shakespeare et l'Europe de la Renaissance. Actes du congrès organisé par la Société Française Shakespeare. Ed. Yves Peyré and Pierre Kapitaniak. 11. Paris: Société Française Shakespeare, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Paris III -- Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004. 131-150.

Hirota, Atsuhiko. "Two Triangles for Denmark: International Relations in Hamlet." Shakespeare Studies (Shakespeare Society of Japan) 53 (2025): 26-42.

Hopkins, Lisa. "Paris Is Worth a Mass: All's Well That Ends Well and the Wars of Religion." Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England. Ed. Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard. New York: Fordham UP, 2003. 369-81.

Kocher, Paul H. "Contemporary Pamphlet Backgrounds for Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, Part I." Modern Language Quarterly 8 (1947): 151-173.

Kocher, Paul H. "François Hotman and Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris." PMLA 56 (1941): 349- 368.

Kocher, Paul H. "Contemporary Pamphlet Backgrounds for Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, Part II." Modern Language Quarterly 8 (1947): 309-318.

Marsden, Jean I. "Theory." A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment. Ed. Elizabeth Kraft. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 49-67.

Martin, Randall. "Anne Dowriche's The French History, Christopher Marlowe, and Machiavellian Agency." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39 (1999): 69-87.

Mayer, Jean-Christophe. "The Saint-Omer First Folio: Perspectives on a New Shakespearean Discovery." Cahiers Élisabéthains 87 (2015): 7-20.

Mynott, Glen. "'We must not be more true to kings / Than Kings are to their subjects': France and the politics of the ancient constitution in Chapman's Byron plays." Renaissance Studies 9.4 (1995): 477-493.

Ovens, Michael. "France and the Norman Lamord in Hamlet." Cahiers Élisabéthains 87.1 (2025): 79-86.

Richmond, Hugh. "Ronsard and the English Renaissance." Comparative Literature Studies 7.2 (1970): 141-60.

Richmond, Hugh. "Shakespeare's Navarre." Huntington Library Quarterly 43.1 (1979): 193-215.

Richmond, Hugh. "'To be or not to be," and the Hymne de la Mort."  Shakespeare Quarterly 13.3 (Summer, 1962): 317-20.

Roberts, Penny. "Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris: a historical perspective." Renaissance Studies 9.4 (1995): 430-440.

Shenk, Linda. "Shakespeare’s Comic Topicality in Love’s Labour’s Lost." English Literary Renaissance 47.2 (2025): 193-217.

Stewart, Alan. "The Forms of News from France in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI." Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013. 49-69.

Suhamy, Henri. "Shakespeare and the French." Shakespeare and France. Ed. Holger Klein and Jean-Marie Maguin. Shakespeare Yearbook 5. Lewiston: Mellen, 1995. 7-23.

Tiffany, Grace. "Being English through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism." Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works. Ed. Beatrice Batson. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 23-44.

Venet, Gisèle. "Shakespeare et la France", Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 18 (2000): 209-228.

Waugaman, Elisabeth. "A Reassessment of the French Influence in Shakespeare." The Oxfordian 21 (2025): 155-76.

Whitver, H. Austin. "Erecting a Pyramid in France: Tomb Symbolism in 1 Henry VI." Journal For Early Modern Cultural Studies 15.3 (2025): 82-101.

Williams, Deanne. "Isabelle de France, Child Bride." French Connections in the English Renaissance. Ed. Catherine Gimelli Martin and Hassan Melehy. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 27-48.

Womersley, David. "France in Shakespeare's Henry V." Renaissance Studies 9.4 (1995): 442- 459.