#Dictionary TermCross References
1Baconian theoryShakespeare play
2BradleyanShakespeare play, kinds of literary criticism
3Choruselements of literature, drama, Greek drama, Shakespeare play
4Globe TheatreRenaissance drama, Shakespeare play
5JeremiadShakespeare play
6PetrarchismRenaissance poetry, Syatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare
7Royal Shakespeare CompanyShakespeare play
8Senecan tragedydrama genre, tragedy, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Mmiddleton, Rowley
9Shakespearean sonnetsonnet, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Surrey
10Ur-textbibliography, textual criticism, Shakespeare
11Venus and Adonis stanzastanza, Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry
12alliterative verseShakespeare sonnet
13anachronismShakespeare drama
14bardolatryShakespeare play
15blazonpoetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip sidney, Thomas Lodge, Shakespeare sonnet
16burlesqueliterary genre, satire, Shakespeare play, Renaissance drama, Francis Beaumont, travesty
17buskindrama, tragedy, Ben Jonson poetry, Shakespeare play
18caricatureelements of literature, drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Massinger, Ben Jonson
19choric, choral characterelements of literature, drama, Greek drama, Shakespeare play
20chronicle playdrama, Renaissance drama, Marlowe, Shakespeare play
21comedydrama genre, comedy, Renaissance literature, Renaissance criticism, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Ben Jonson, British literary history
22comedy of mannersdrama genre, Shakespeare play
23comic reliefelement of drama, plot, tragedy, Shakespeare play, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster
24commedia dell'artecomedy, drama history, Renaissance drama, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare play
25conceitstylistic 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
26conflictplot, element of drama, Shakespeare play
27courtly loveRenaissance poetry, Renaissance drama, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare sonnet
28crisisplot, Shakespeare play
29decorumelement of literature, Renaissance lit., John Skelton, John Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play
30dirgepoetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Philip Sidney, Henry King, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, John Webster
31discoveryplot, Shakespeare play
32dumb showdrama/general, element of drama, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Peele, Shakespeare play, Greene, Webster, Middleton
33end-stopped linerhythm, meter, Shakespeare play, textual criticism
34epiphonemastylistic device, rhetorical device, element of poetry, Shakespeare sonnet
35epyllionpoetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare poem, Marlowe poem, Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont
36erotic poetrypoetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Chapman
37fancy and imaginationRenaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Francis Bacon, Sidney, British literary history
38farcedrama genre, comedy, general literary history, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson, Marlowe
39feigningliterary theory, Plato, Aristotle, Renaissance literary criticism, Shakespeare play
40foliobibliography, Shakespeare play
41ghost storyprose fiction genre, Renaissance drama, Kyd, Shakespeare play, Webster, general literary history
42harangueelement of drama, Shakespeare play, plot
43heroic coupletstanza form, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hall, Drayton, Fletcher, Beaumont, Donne, Waller, Denham
44humanismRenaissance lit., Shakespeare play
45incantationstylistic device, rhetorical device, element of poetry, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Renaissance drama
46inductionRenaissance drama, Renaissance poetry, Shakespeare play
47invectiveelement of literature, Renaissance lit., Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Lodge, Marston, Jonson
48low comedyliterature genre, comedy, drama genre, Shakespeare play
49lyricpoetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan
50masquedrama genre, Renaissance drama, Jonson, Shakespeare play, Dekker, John Ford, Milton, Sidney, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, Carew, Fletcher, Campion, Beaumont, Middleton
51merismusstylistic device, rhetorical device, Shakespeare play
52monorhymerhyme, Shakespeare play
53motiondrama genre, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson
54obligatory sceneelement of drama, plot, Shakespeare play
55oxymoronstylistic device, rhetorical device, figurative language, SHakespeare play, Renaissance lit., Milton, Wyatt, Crashaw, Renaissance poetry, paradox
56pantalooncharacterization, comedy, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play
57paradoxstylistic device, rhetorical device, Renaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Milton, Browne, Donne, Marvell, British literary history, metaphysical, new criticism, deconstructionist literary criticism
58paragoneRenaissance lit., Shakespeare play, Sidney
59paralipsisstylistic device, rhetorical device, Shakespeare play
60parodysatire, literary genre, literature genre, Renaissance lit. Shakespeare play, Siuckling, Donne, Milton, British literary history
61pathoselement of literature, Shakespeare play
62quidproquoelement of drama, comedy, Shakespeare play, Jonson play
63revenge tragedytragedy, drama genre, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, tragedy of blood
64rhetorical questionrhetorical device, stylistic device, Sidney, Shakespeare play
65rhymerhyme, Shakespeare
66soliloquyelement of drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Marlowe play, Webster
67songpoetry 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.
68sonnetsonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry
69sonnet cyclesonnet, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne
70stichomythiaelement of drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Milton
71stock characterelement of literature, characterization, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson play
72suspenseplot, Shakespeare play
73synathroesmusstylistic device, rhetorical device, shakespeare play
74systropherhetorical device, stylistic device, Shakespeare play
75telescoped metaphorcomplex metaphor, Shakespeare play, imagery, metaphor
76tetralogydrama, Shakespeare
77themeelement of literature, Shakespeare
78time playdrama, drama genre, element of drama, Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, Graham Greene
79tragi-comedydrama, drama genre, Renaissance lit., Italian lit., John Fletcher, Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, French lit., 19th century lit., 20th century lit.
80trilogydrama, ancient Greek lit., Shakespeare, Schiller, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, novel, Joyce Cary, tetralogy
81university witsRenaissance lit., British Renaissance lit., Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Lyly, Lodge, Peele, Shakespeare
82villainplot, 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
83vulgaritystylistic 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