Edition: SelimusSelimus: Bibliography

Editions Collated

The first part of the tragicall raigne of Selimus, sometime Emperour of the Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 12310a. ESTC S124196. DEEP 203.
Allott, Robert. Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets. London: Nicholas Ling, Cuthbert Burby, and Thomas Hayes, 1600. STC 379. ESTC S1431.
Grosart, A.B., ed., The First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus. The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene. Vol. 14. New York: Russell & Russell, 1881–1886. 189–291.
Grosart, A.B., ed., The Tragical Reign of Selimus. London: J.M. Dent, 1898.
Bang, Willy, ed. The Tragical Reign of Selimus. Malone Society Reprints, 1908.
Hopkinson, A.F., ed. The Tragical Reign of Selimus Sometime Emperor of the Turks. London: M.E. Sims & Co., 1916.
Jacquot, Jean. Ralegh’s Hellish Verses and the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus. Modern Language Review 48:1 (1953): 1–9.
Riad, Nadia Mohamed. A Critical Old-Spelling Edition of The Tragicall Raigne of Selimus. Queen’s University. PhD dissertation, 1994.
Vitkus, Daniel J., ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Works Cited

Allott, Robert. Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets. London: Nicholas Ling, Cuthbert Burby, and Thomas Hayes, 1600. STC 379. ESTC S1431.
The famous victories of Henry the fifth. Thomas Creede, 1598. STC 13072. Queen’s Men Editions. ESTC S106379. DEEP 252.
The first part of the tragicall raigne of Selimus, sometime Emperour of the Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 12310a. ESTC S124196. DEEP 203.
The lamentable and true tragedie of M. Arden of Feuersham in Kent. London: Edward White, 1592. STC 733. ESTC S106279. DEEP 142.
The lamentable tragedie of Locrine. London: Thomas Creede, 1595. STC 21528. ESTC S106301. DEEP 210.
The life and death of Iacke Straw, a notable rebell in England. London: Thomas Pavier, 1604. STC 23357. ESTC S111291. DEEP 167.
A most pleasant comedie of Mucedorus. London: William Jones, 1598. STC 18230. ESTC S106305. DEEP 258.
The True Tragedie of Richard the third: Wherein is showne the death of Edward the fourth, with the smothering of the two yoong Princes in the Tower: With a lamentable ende of Shore’s wife, an example for all wicked women. And lastly, the coniunction and ioyning of the two noble Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. As it was playd by the Queenes Maiesties Players. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 21009. ESTC S111104.
Ashton, Peter. A shorte treatise vpon the Turkes chronicles. London: Edward Whitechurch, 1546. STC 11899. ESTC S103126.
Baldwin, William, George Ferrers, and Thomas Chaloner. A myrrour for magistrates. London: Edward Whitchurch, 1563. STC 1248. ESTC S100551.
Barbour, Richmond. Before Orientalism: London’s Theatre of the East, 1576–1626. Cambridge University Press, 2003. WSB aal241.
Berek, Peter. Locrine Revised, Selimus, and Early Responses to Tamburlaine. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 23 (1980): 33–54.
Berek, Peter. Tamburlaine’s Weak Sons: Imitation as Interpretation Before 1593. Renaissance Drama 13 (1982): 55–82.
Blayney, Peter W.M. The Publication of Playbooks. A New History of English Drama. Ed. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Tucker Brooke, C.F. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Clarendon Press, 1908.
Budra, Paul. A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition. Toronto University Press, 2000. WSB aab1485.
Cambini, Andrea. Two very notable commentaries the one of the originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno. Trans. John Shute. London: Humphrey Toye, 1562. STC 4470. ESTC S107293.
Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Clarendon Press, 1923; rpt. 1967.
Chapman, George. The tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1654. Wing C1952. ESTC R19355. DEEP 1086.
Çipa, H. Erdem. The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Crawford, Charles. Edmund Spenser, Locrine, and Selimus. Notes & Queries. Series VII (1919): 61–63, 101–103, 142–144, 203–205, 261–263, 324–325, 384–386.
Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. WSB aaz406.
Dessen, Alan C., and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642. Cambridge University Press, 1999. WSB aaa585.
Dimmock, Matthew. New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2005. WSB aaq206.
Ferguson, W. Craig. Thomas Creede’s Pica Roman. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 23 (1970): 148–153.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923. Basic Books, 2005.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002. WSB aah397.
Freedbury-Jones, Darren. Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival. Routledge, 2022.
G., T. The tragedy of Selimus Emperour of the Turkes. London: John Crooke and Richard Sergier, 1638. STC 12310b. ESTC S103417. DEEP 204.
Gants, David. Creede, Thomas (b. in or before 1554, d. 1616), printer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Goldie, M. Crooke, Andrew (c. 1605–1674), bookseller. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Gosson, Stephen. The schoole of abuse. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1579. STC 12097.5. ESTC S103345.
Greene, Robert. The comicall historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon. London: Thomas Creede, 1599. STC 12233. ESTC S105900. DEEP 275.
Greene, Robert. The historie of Orlando Furioso. London: Cuthbert Burby, 1594. STC 12265. ESTC S105966. DEEP 189.
Greene, Robert. The honorable historie of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay. London: Edward White, 1594. STC 12267. ESTC S105968. DEEP 185. Queen’s Men Editions.
Greene, Robert. The Scottish historie of Iames the fourth. London: Thomas Creede, 1598. STC 12308. ESTC S105810. DEEP 255.
Greene, Robert, and Thomas Lodge. A looking glasse for London and England. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 16679. ESTC S109578. DEEP 174.
Greg, W.W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
Grogan, Jane. ’A warre commodious’: Dramatizing Islamic Schism in and after Tamburlaine. Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.1 (2012): 45–78.
Grosart, A.B., ed. General Index. The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene. Vol. 15. New York: Russell & Russell, 1881–1886. 1–185.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009. WSB aay77.
Hopkinson, A.F., ed. The Tragical Reign of Selimus Sometime Emperor of the Turks. London: M.E. Sims & Co., 1916.
Ingram, Anders. Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Jacquot, Jean. Ralegh’s Hellish Verses and the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus. Modern Language Review 48:1 (1953): 1–9.
Kyd, Thomas. Cornelia. London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby, 1549. STC 11622. ESTC S105698. DEEP 169.
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish tragedie. London: Edward White, 1592. STC 15086. ESTC S120308. DEEP 150.
Lesser, Zachary, and Peter Stallybrass. The First Literary Hamlet and the Commonplacing of Professional Plays. Shakespeare Quarterly 59.4 (2008): 371–420. WSB bbw741.
Lodge, Thomas. Wits miserie, and the worlds madnesse: discovering the devils incarnat of this age. London: Cuthbert Burby, 1596. STC 16677. ESTC S109635.
MacLean, Gerald M., and Nabil I. Matar. Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Marlowe, Christopher. The famous tragedy of the rich Iew of Malta. London: Nicholas Vavasour, 1633. STC 17412. ESTC S109853. DEEP 812.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Massacre at Paris. London: Edward White, 1594. STC 17423. ESTC S109865. DEEP 207.
Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. London: Richard Jones, 1590. STC 17425. ESTC S122101. DEEP 5017.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1594. STC 17441. ESTC S109880. DEEP 196.
Marlowe, Christopher. The tragicall history of D. Faustus. London: Valentine Simmes, 1604. STC 17429. ESTC S120173. DEEP 369.
Marlowe, Christopher. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second. London: Robert Robinson, 1594. STC 17437. ESTC S120996. DEEP 197.
Matar, Nabil I. Turks, Moors, & Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. Columbia University Press, 1999.
Maxwell, Baldwin. Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. King’s Crown Press, 1956.
McMillin, Scott. The Queen’s Men in 1594: A Study of Good and Bad Quartos. ELR 14.1 (1984): 55–69. WSB bm216.
McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays. Cambridge University Press, 1998. WSB aw359.
Melnikoff, Kirk. Jones’s Pen and Marlowe’s Socks: Richard Jones, Print Culture, and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature. Studies in Philology 102.2 (2005): 184–209.
Melnikoff, Kirk, ed. Robert Greene.Ashgate, 2011. WSB aaaa52.
Meres, Francis. Palladis tamia. London: Cuthbert Burby, 1598. STC 17834. ESTC S110013.
Muir, Kenneth. Who wrote Selimus? Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society 2.6 (1949): 375–376.
Murphy, Donna N. Locrine, Selimus, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge. Notes & Queries 56.4 (2009): 559–563.
Murphy, John Leo. Some Problems in the Anonymous Drama of the Elizabethan Stage. University of Oklahoma. PhD dissertation, 1963.
Ostovich, Helen, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. WSB aay90.
Pálosfalvi, Tamás. From Nicopolis to Mohács: A History of Ottoman-Hungarian Warfare, 1389–1526. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Peele, George. The loue of King Dauid and fair Bethsabe. London: Adam Islip, 1599. STC 19540. ESTC S110364. DEEP 280.
Pinciss, Gerald. Thomas Creede and the Repertory of the Queen’s Men 1583–1592. Modern Philology 67.4 (1970): 321–330.
Riad, Nadia Mohamed. A Critical Old-Spelling Edition of The Tragicall Raigne of Selimus. Queen’s University. PhD dissertation, 1994.
Ribner, Irving. Greene’s Attack on Marlowe: Some Light on Alphonsus and Selimus. Studies in Philology 52 (1955): 162–171.
Robertson, John MacKinnon. An Introduction to the Study of the Shakespeare Canon. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1924.
Rutter, Tom. Allusions to Marlowe in Printed Plays, 1594. Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade. Ed. Kirk Melnikoff and Roslyn L. Knutson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 199–213. WSB aaai758.
Salterne, George. Tomumbeius. Ed. Roberta Barker. Trans. Christopher McKelvie. The Philological Museum, 2011, http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/.
Shakespeare, William. The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster. London: Thomas Millington, 1594. STC 26099. ESTC S105347. DEEP 179.
Shakespeare, William. The most excellent and lamentable tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. Newly corrected, augmented, and amended. London: Thomas Creede, 1599. STC 22323. ESTC S111179. DEEP 234.
Shakespeare, William. The most lamentable Romaine tragedie of Titus Andronicus. London: John Danter, 1594. STC 22328. ESTC S106004. DEEP 171.
Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies: Published according to the true originall copies. London: William Jaggard, 1623. STC 22273. ESTC S111228. DEEP 5081.
Shakespeare, William. The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke. London: Thomas Millington, 1595. STC 21006. ESTC S102944. DEEP 212.
Shapiro, James. Shakespeare and the Jews. Columbia University Press, 1996.
Shaw, Stanford J. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. Macmillan Press, 1991; rpt. Springer, 2016.
Shoulson, Jeffrey S. Fictions of Conversion: Christians and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Syme, Holger S. Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the Venture of Printing Plays. Shakespeare’s Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography. Ed. Marta Straznicky. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 28–46. WSB aaac1.
Vitkus, Daniel J., ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England. Columbia University Press, 2000.
Vitkus, Daniel. Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570–1630. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. WSB aal194.
Walsh, Brian. Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History. Cambridge University Press, 2009. WSB aay460.
Werstine, Paul. Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 2013. WSB aaac5.
Whetstone, George. The English myrror. A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy. London: George Seton, 1586. STC 25336. ESTC S126805.
Wiggins, Martin, and Catherine Richardson. British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue. Volume 3, 1590–1597. Oxford University Press, 2012. WSB aaac69.
Wiles, David. Shakespeare’s Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse. Cambridge University Press, 1987. WSB ah160.
Wilson, Robert. A right excellent and famous comoedy called the three ladies of London. London: Roger Ward, 1584. STC 25784. ESTC S111805. DEEP 119.
Yamada, Akihiro. Thomas Creede: Printer to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Meisei University Press, 1994. WSB a763.

Prosopography

Andrew Griffin

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme Locating the Queen’s Men (2009) and has co-edited The Making of a Broadside Ballad (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama: Biography, History, Catastrophe, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the anonymous The Chronicle History of King Leir (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.

Helen Ostovich

Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder and general editor of Queen’s Men Editions. She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge), and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several works by Ben Jonson, in Four Comedies: Ben Jonson (1997); Every Man Out of his Humour (Revels 2001); and The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1602 and F1623 (2015); The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for Richard Brome Online, revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; The Ball, for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); The Merry Wives of Windsor for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and The Dutch Courtesan (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book collections, most recently Magical Transformations of the Early Modern English Stage with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to essays; video; link to Queen’s Mens Ediitons and YouTube: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/index.htm, 2015. Recently, she was guest editor of Strangers and Aliens in London ca 1605, Special Issue on Marston, Early Theatre 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Beatrice Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Kirk Melnikoff

Kirk Melnikoff is Professor of English at UNC Charlotte and a past president of the Marlowe Society of America. His research interests range from sixteenth-century British Literature and Culture, to Shakespeare in Performance, to Book History. His essays have appeared in a number of journals and books, and he is the author of Elizabethan Book Trade Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (U Toronto P, 2018). He has also edited four essay collections, most recently Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade (Cambridge UP, 2018), and published an edition of Robert Greene’s James IV in 2020. He is currently co-editing a collection of early modern book-trade wills which will be published by Manchester UP, editing Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works project, and working on a monograph on bookselling in early modern England.

Mahayla Galliford

Project Manager, 2025-present; Assistant Project Manager, 2024-2025; Research Assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA (honours with distinction) in 2024, and an MA English in 2026. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Her SSHRC-funded MA thesis project focuses on transcribing, editing, and encoding early modern girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s May Masque in collaboration with LEMDO.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Nicole Vatcher

Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.) in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was women’s writing in the modernist period.

Peter Cockett

Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the iArts (Integrated Arts) program at McMaster University. He is the co-editor, with Melinda Gough, of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond (University of Toronto Press, 2025) which publishes the findings of their 2018 Performance as Research (PaR) workshop at the Stratford Festival Lab. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor of Queen’s Men Editions. His PaR directing credits include King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006), Clyomon and Clamydes (2010), and Three Ladies of London (2015) for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM). The process behind the 2006 productions is documented in depth on the project website Performing the Queen’s Men. For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players, he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.

Bibliography

A most pleasant comedie of Mucedorus. London: William Jones, 1598. STC 18230. ESTC S106305. DEEP 258.
Allott, Robert. Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets. London: Nicholas Ling, Cuthbert Burby, and Thomas Hayes, 1600. STC 379. ESTC S1431.
Ashton, Peter. A shorte treatise vpon the Turkes chronicles. London: Edward Whitechurch, 1546. STC 11899. ESTC S103126.
Baldwin, William, George Ferrers, and Thomas Chaloner. A myrrour for magistrates. London: Edward Whitchurch, 1563. STC 1248. ESTC S100551.
Bang, Willy, ed. The Tragical Reign of Selimus. Malone Society Reprints, 1908.
Barbour, Richmond. Before Orientalism: London’s Theatre of the East, 1576–1626. Cambridge University Press, 2003. WSB aal241.
Berek, Peter. Locrine Revised, Selimus, and Early Responses to Tamburlaine. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 23 (1980): 33–54.
Berek, Peter. Tamburlaine’s Weak Sons: Imitation as Interpretation Before 1593. Renaissance Drama 13 (1982): 55–82.
Blayney, Peter W.M. The Publication of Playbooks. A New History of English Drama. Ed. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Budra, Paul. A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition. Toronto University Press, 2000. WSB aab1485.
Cambini, Andrea. Two very notable commentaries the one of the originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno. Trans. John Shute. London: Humphrey Toye, 1562. STC 4470. ESTC S107293.
Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Clarendon Press, 1923; rpt. 1967.
Chapman, George. The tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1654. Wing C1952. ESTC R19355. DEEP 1086.
Crawford, Charles. Edmund Spenser, Locrine, and Selimus. Notes & Queries. Series VII (1919): 61–63, 101–103, 142–144, 203–205, 261–263, 324–325, 384–386.
Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. WSB aaz406.
Dessen, Alan C., and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642. Cambridge University Press, 1999. WSB aaa585.
Dimmock, Matthew. New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2005. WSB aaq206.
Ferguson, W. Craig. Thomas Creede’s Pica Roman. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 23 (1970): 148–153.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923. Basic Books, 2005.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002. WSB aah397.
Freedbury-Jones, Darren. Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival. Routledge, 2022.
G., T. The tragedy of Selimus Emperour of the Turkes. London: John Crooke and Richard Sergier, 1638. STC 12310b. ESTC S103417. DEEP 204.
Gants, David. Creede, Thomas (b. in or before 1554, d. 1616), printer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Goldie, M. Crooke, Andrew (c. 1605–1674), bookseller. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Gosson, Stephen. The schoole of abuse. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1579. STC 12097.5. ESTC S103345.
Greene, Robert, and Thomas Lodge. A looking glasse for London and England. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 16679. ESTC S109578. DEEP 174.
Greene, Robert. The comicall historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon. London: Thomas Creede, 1599. STC 12233. ESTC S105900. DEEP 275.
Greene, Robert. The historie of Orlando Furioso. London: Cuthbert Burby, 1594. STC 12265. ESTC S105966. DEEP 189.
Greene, Robert. The honorable historie of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay. London: Edward White, 1594. STC 12267. ESTC S105968. DEEP 185. Queen’s Men Editions.
Greene, Robert. The Scottish historie of Iames the fourth. London: Thomas Creede, 1598. STC 12308. ESTC S105810. DEEP 255.
Greg, W.W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
Grogan, Jane. ’A warre commodious’: Dramatizing Islamic Schism in and after Tamburlaine. Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.1 (2012): 45–78.
Grosart, A.B., ed. General Index. The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene. Vol. 15. New York: Russell & Russell, 1881–1886. 1–185.
Grosart, A.B., ed., The First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus. The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene. Vol. 14. New York: Russell & Russell, 1881–1886. 189–291.
Grosart, A.B., ed., The Tragical Reign of Selimus. London: J.M. Dent, 1898.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009. WSB aay77.
Hopkinson, A.F., ed. The Tragical Reign of Selimus Sometime Emperor of the Turks. London: M.E. Sims & Co., 1916.
Ingram, Anders. Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Jacquot, Jean. Ralegh’s Hellish Verses and the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus. Modern Language Review 48:1 (1953): 1–9.
Kyd, Thomas. Cornelia. London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby, 1549. STC 11622. ESTC S105698. DEEP 169.
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish tragedie. London: Edward White, 1592. STC 15086. ESTC S120308. DEEP 150.
Lesser, Zachary, and Peter Stallybrass. The First Literary Hamlet and the Commonplacing of Professional Plays. Shakespeare Quarterly 59.4 (2008): 371–420. WSB bbw741.
Lodge, Thomas. Wits miserie, and the worlds madnesse: discovering the devils incarnat of this age. London: Cuthbert Burby, 1596. STC 16677. ESTC S109635.
MacLean, Gerald M., and Nabil I. Matar. Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. London: Richard Jones, 1590. STC 17425. ESTC S122101. DEEP 5017.
Marlowe, Christopher. The famous tragedy of the rich Iew of Malta. London: Nicholas Vavasour, 1633. STC 17412. ESTC S109853. DEEP 812.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Massacre at Paris. London: Edward White, 1594. STC 17423. ESTC S109865. DEEP 207.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1594. STC 17441. ESTC S109880. DEEP 196.
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