| # | Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| 1 | Baconian theory | Shakespeare play |
| 2 | Bradleyan | Shakespeare play, kinds of literary criticism |
| 3 | Chorus | elements of literature, drama, Greek drama, Shakespeare play |
| 4 | Globe Theatre | Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play |
| 5 | Jeremiad | Shakespeare play |
| 6 | Petrarchism | Renaissance poetry, Syatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare |
| 7 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Shakespeare play |
| 8 | Senecan tragedy | drama genre, tragedy, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Mmiddleton, Rowley |
| 9 | Shakespearean sonnet | sonnet, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Surrey |
| 10 | Ur-text | bibliography, textual criticism, Shakespeare |
| 11 | Venus and Adonis stanza | stanza, Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry |
| 12 | alliterative verse | Shakespeare sonnet |
| 13 | anachronism | Shakespeare drama |
| 14 | bardolatry | Shakespeare play |
| 15 | blazon | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip sidney, Thomas Lodge, Shakespeare sonnet |
| 16 | burlesque | literary genre, satire, Shakespeare play, Renaissance drama, Francis Beaumont, travesty |
| 17 | buskin | drama, tragedy, Ben Jonson poetry, Shakespeare play |
| 18 | caricature | elements of literature, drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Massinger, Ben Jonson |
| 19 | choric, choral character | elements of literature, drama, Greek drama, Shakespeare play |
| 20 | chronicle play | drama, Renaissance drama, Marlowe, Shakespeare play |
| 21 | comedy | drama genre, comedy, Renaissance literature, Renaissance criticism, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Ben Jonson, British literary history |
| 22 | comedy of manners | drama genre, Shakespeare play |
| 23 | comic relief | element of drama, plot, tragedy, Shakespeare play, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster |
| 24 | commedia dell'arte | comedy, drama history, Renaissance drama, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare play |
| 25 | conceit | stylistic device, rhetorical device, figurative language, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Thomas Wyatt, Shakespeare play, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare sonnet, Henry Constable, Andrew Marvell, emblem, emblem book, George Wither, typolog |
| 26 | conflict | plot, element of drama, Shakespeare play |
| 27 | courtly love | Renaissance poetry, Renaissance drama, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare sonnet |
| 28 | crisis | plot, Shakespeare play |
| 29 | decorum | element of literature, Renaissance lit., John Skelton, John Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play |
| 30 | dirge | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip Sidney, Henry King, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, John Webster |
| 31 | discovery | plot, Shakespeare play |
| 32 | dumb show | drama/general, element of drama, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Peele, Shakespeare play, Greene, Webster, Middleton |
| 33 | end-stopped line | rhythm, meter, Shakespeare play, textual criticism |
| 34 | epiphonema | stylistic device, rhetorical device, element of poetry, Shakespeare sonnet |
| 35 | epyllion | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare poem, Marlowe poem, Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont |
| 36 | erotic poetry | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Chapman |
| 37 | fancy and imagination | Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Francis Bacon, Sidney, British literary history |
| 38 | farce | drama genre, comedy, general literary history, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson, Marlowe |
| 39 | feigning | literary theory, Plato, Aristotle, Renaissance literary criticism, Shakespeare play |
| 40 | folio | bibliography, Shakespeare play |
| 41 | ghost story | prose fiction genre, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Shakespeare play, Webster, general literary history |
| 42 | harangue | element of drama, Shakespeare play, plot |
| 43 | heroic couplet | stanza form, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hall, Drayton, Fletcher, Beaumont, Donne, Waller, Denham |
| 44 | humanism | Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play |
| 45 | incantation | stylistic device, rhetorical device, element of poetry, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Renaissance drama |
| 46 | induction | Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare play |
| 47 | invective | element of literature, Renaissance lit., Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Lodge, Marston, Jonson |
| 48 | low comedy | literature genre, comedy, drama genre, Shakespeare play |
| 49 | lyric | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan |
| 50 | masque | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Jonson, Shakespeare play, Dekker, John Ford, Milton, Sidney, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, Carew, Fletcher, Campion, Beaumont, Middleton |
| 51 | merismus | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Shakespeare play |
| 52 | monorhyme | rhyme, Shakespeare play |
| 53 | motion | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson |
| 54 | obligatory scene | element of drama, plot, Shakespeare play |
| 55 | oxymoron | stylistic device, rhetorical device, figurative language, SHakespeare play, Renaissance lit., Milton, Wyatt, Crashaw, Renaissance poetry, paradox |
| 56 | pantaloon | characterization, comedy, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play |
| 57 | paradox | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Milton, Browne, Donne, Marvell, British literary history, metaphysical, new criticism, deconstructionist literary criticism |
| 58 | paragone | Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Sidney |
| 59 | paralipsis | stylistic device, rhetorical device, Shakespeare play |
| 60 | parody | satire, literary genre, literature genre, Renaissance lit. Shakespeare play, Siuckling, Donne, Milton, British literary history |
| 61 | pathos | element of literature, Shakespeare play |
| 62 | quidproquo | element of drama, comedy, Shakespeare play, Jonson play |
| 63 | revenge tragedy | tragedy, drama genre, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, tragedy of blood |
| 64 | rhetorical question | rhetorical device, stylistic device, Sidney, Shakespeare play |
| 65 | rhyme | rhyme, Shakespeare |
| 66 | soliloquy | element of drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Marlowe play, Webster |
| 67 | song | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Campion, Suckling, Herrick, Lovelace, Jonson, Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Dekker, Beaumont&Fletcher, Jonson play, Suckling play, Shirley, British literary history, Rest&18thc Brit. lit. |
| 68 | sonnet | sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry |
| 69 | sonnet cycle | sonnet, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne |
| 70 | stichomythia | element of drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Milton |
| 71 | stock character | element of literature, characterization, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson play |
| 72 | suspense | plot, Shakespeare play |
| 73 | synathroesmus | stylistic device, rhetorical device, shakespeare play |
| 74 | systrophe | rhetorical device, stylistic device, Shakespeare play |
| 75 | telescoped metaphor | complex metaphor, Shakespeare play, imagery, metaphor |
| 76 | tetralogy | drama, Shakespeare |
| 77 | theme | element of literature, Shakespeare |
| 78 | time play | drama, drama genre, element of drama, Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, Graham Greene |
| 79 | tragi-comedy | drama, drama genre, Renaissance lit., Italian lit., John Fletcher, Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, French lit., 19th century lit., 20th century lit. |
| 80 | trilogy | drama, ancient Greek lit., Shakespeare, Schiller, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, novel, Joyce Cary, tetralogy |
| 81 | university wits | Renaissance lit., British Renaissance lit., Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Lyly, Lodge, Peele, Shakespeare |
| 82 | villain | plot, character, Renaissance lit., medieval lit., drama, medieval drama, Renaissance drama, Machiavelli, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Dekker, Ben Jonson, Barnaby Barnes, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle, Tourneur, John Webster, Middleton, Rowley |
| 83 | vulgarity | stylistic device, element of literature, Renaissance lit., Shakespeare, Crashaw, 18th century lit., poetry, Samuel Richardson, MacKenzie, Lord Chesterfield, decorum, Thomas Parnell, Poe, Swinburne, Balzac, Dickens, Hardy, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell |