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[1] Astington, John H. "The Whitehall Cockpit: The Building and the Theater." English Literary Renaissance 12.3. (Autumn, 1982): 301-318.

This article discusses the Cockpit (where A Chaste Maid in Cheapside was played) at length.

[2] Barker, R. H. Thomas Middleton. New York: Columbia UP, 1958.

This biography of Thomas Middleton outlines his life and the various types of plays Middleton worked on.

[3] Brittin, Norman A. Thomas Middleton. Ed. Sylvia E. Bowman. New York: Twayne, 1972.

This biography of Thomas Middleton also offers analysis of his plays as well as a very comprehensive timeline of events of Middleton's life and relates important events (ascension of a different monarch or plague) to his life and plays.

[4] Brown, Arthur. "Citizen Comedy and Domestic Drama."Jacobean Theater. Ed. J. R. Brown and Bernard Harris. Stratford-Upon-Avon 1. New York: St. Martin's, 1960.

Arthur Brown attempts to analyze theater after the reign of Elizabeth and focuses a chapter on Middleton: "Middleton's Experiments with Comedy and Judgement."

[5] Cressy, David. "Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England." The Journal of British Studies 35.4. (Oct, 1996): 438-465.

Cressy builds on an article by Jean E. Howard and argues a different point: that cross-dressing was not too transgressive.

[6] Doran, Madeleine. Endeavors of Art: A study of form in Elizabethan drama. Binghamton: Vail-Ballou, 1954.

Elizabethan drama has many genres, and Doran addresses many of them, including comedy.

[7] Gataker, Thomas. Two Marriage Sermons. London, 1620.

In this sermon Thomas Gataker addresses the positive aspects of having a wife and God's approval of a good wife and marriage.

[8] Gataker, Thomas. Paul’s Desire of Dissolution. London, 1620.

In this sermon Thomas Gataker outlines the supposed merits of dying at a funeral.

[9] Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 3^rd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Topics of interest in this book are the play houses themselves and the different semantic details of theater in Middleton's time, such as time of performances, performance conditions, etc.

[10] Hattaway, Michael. "Drama and Society." The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. 2^nd ed. Ed. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2003.

This essay outlines and describes in some detail various aspects of the interaction between drama and society, such as women and families and the city of London itself.

[11] Howard, Jean E. "Crossdressing, The Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England." Shakespeare Quarterly 39.4. (Winter, 1988): 418-440.

This article attempts to determine the extent of social disruption by people (not only actors) cross-dressing.

[12] Levenson, Jill. "Comedy." The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. 2^nd ed. Ed. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Jill Levenson addresses the techniques and style Middleton and other playwright employ in different comedies of the era.

[13] Middleton, Thomas. “A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.” Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. 2nd ed. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.

One of Middleton's most popular comedies, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside satirizes the values people in London placed on maids, whores, and the general economic value of chastity.

[14] Pyrnne, William. Histrio-Mastix. 2^nd ed. London, 1633. Early English Books Online. 30 Nov. 2006 <http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri: eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:15744:108>.

This piece by William Prynne emphasizes and attempts to explain why cross-dressing is an unnatural transgression against the Lord.

[15] Parrott, Thomas Marc, and Robert Hamilton Ball. A Short View of Elizabethan Drama. New York: Scribners, 1943.

Parrott and Ball examine and analyze various genres of Elizabethan Drama, including citizen comedy.

[16] Paster, Gail K. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

This book addresses the reasons for believing women to be inferior to men, as well as how their inferiority is represented (wetness and leaky).

[17] Paster, Gail K. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens: Georgia UP, 1985.

Gail K. Paster looks at London in Shakespeare's time (also during Middleton's time) and how this booming city was viewed in plays of the time.

[18] Rowland, Beryl. "Harpies." Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide. Ed. Malcolm South. Westport: Greewood, 1987.

Here mythological creatures ranging from unicorns to harpies and dragons are discussed in detail.

[19] Simon, Joan. "The Social Origins of Cambridge Students, 1603-1640." Past and Present 26. (Nov. 1963): 58-67.

This article looks at Cambridge Students in Middleton's time and where they stood on the social hierarchy.

[20] Summers, Claude J. "Homosexuality and Renaissance Literature, or the Anxieties of Anachronism." South Central Review 9.1. (Spring, 1992): 2-23.

The issues of homosexuality and homoeroticism are addressed in this article, both on the stage and off of it.

[21] Twyning, John A. “City Comedy.” A Companion to Renissance Drama. 2nd ed. Ed. Arthur F. Finney. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. 353-398.

Twyning writes about the genre of City Comedy as a form of criticism and satire.

 [22] Venn, John. Biographical History of Caius College. Vol 3. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1897-1901.

This article analyzes the data of students that graduated from Cambridge and is used to argue that more students graduated in great numbers from more diverse backgrounds, such as the merchants and tradesmen.