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Core Books and Articles: Verified Retrieval Register

Verified Ready source map packet

Core books and articles

Source-control purpose

This is a retrieval register, not an evidence argument. Inclusion verifies a bibliographic identity and public route; it does not mean the source supports a Neville attribution claim. Promotion into a chapter requires a topic-specific page reference, accurately delimited claim, and primary-source control where appropriate.

Verified bibliography

Research laneBibliographic identityPublic routeUse status
Henry V and FranceDavid Womersley, “France in Shakespeare's Henry V,” Renaissance Studies 9 (1995), 442-459DOIverified identity; use exact pages
Richard II and censorshipCyndia Susan Clegg, “‘By the choise and inuitation of al the realme’: Richard II and Elizabethan Press Censorship,” Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (1997), 432-448DOIverified identity; do not reduce to a generic “censorship” claim
Parliament and political verseMichelle O'Callaghan, “‘Talking Politics’: Tyranny, Parliament, and Christopher Brooke's Ghost of Richard the Third,” Historical Journal 41 (1998), 97-120JSTORverified identity; network/context source
Hoskyns and CoryateJulian T. S. Neuhauser, “Sirenaicks, Guilds and a New Coryate Manuscript,” Review of English Studies 74 (2023), 31-46DOIverified identity; documentary network source
Donne and manuscript circulationDaniel Starza Smith, John Donne and the Conway Papers (Oxford, 2014)Oxford Academicverified identity; manuscript-circulation method and evidence
Thorpe and BillingbearJohn Summerson, “The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe,” Walpole Society 40 (1964-1966)JSTORverified identity; plan catalogue and attribution
Thorpe and ParisRosalys Coope, “John Thorpe and the Hôtel Zamet in Paris,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), 671-679, 681JSTORverified identity; architectural-transmission hypothesis
Neville's later Italian travelAndrew Casson, “The republican Henry Neville's trip to Italy,” Notes and Queries 64 (2017), 450-455DOIverified identity; person/date firewall required
Hoskyns manuscript canonPeter Beal, “John Hoskyns,” CELMFolger CELMverified public catalogue route
Lady Nevell identity and manuscriptJohn Harley, “My Lady Nevell Revealed,” Music & Letters 86 (2005), 1–15Oxford Academicrelevant argument and identification pages checked
Wotton correspondenceLogan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vols. (1907)Internet Archive, vol. 1Siena and Neville-secretaryship pages checked
Camden's Neville accountWilliam Camden, Annales, Part II (Leiden, 1625)USTC 1028004Latin Neville episode image-collated
Chamberlain correspondenceNorman Egbert McClure, ed., The Letters of John Chamberlain, 2 vols. (1939)Internet ArchiveNeville notices checked against selected manuscript images
Henslowe's iron-office ledgerW. W. Greg, ed., Henslowe's Diary (1904)Internet Archiveintroductory Hogge/iron-office pages checked
Italian political source fieldGiovanni Botero, Della ragion di stato (Venice, 1589)Internet Archiverelevant magistracy/disguise chapters inspected in exact edition
Robert Sidney correspondenceMargaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael G. Brennan, eds., Domestic Politics and Family AbsenceRoutledgeLetter 252 page checked
Savile and TacitusJan Waszink, “Henry Savile's Tacitus and the English Role on the Continent: Leicester, Hotman, Lipsius,” History of European Ideas 42 (2016), 303–319DOIarticle body checked for travel and political-intellectual context

Quoted source passage

The legacy bibliography described its scope as:

“traditional Shakespeare scholarship rather than authorship question materials”

That remains a useful selection principle, but the old list is no longer itself the citation. Each entry above is routed to an independently identifiable publication.

Promotion rules

  1. Cite the publication, not this register.
  2. Record the exact page or catalogue entry used.
  3. Separate the author's documented conclusion from this project's inference.
  4. For manuscript claims, pair secondary scholarship with the archive witness
  5. or a human edition.

  6. Mark an item “unread” until the relevant pages have actually been checked;
  7. title-level relevance is not evidence.

Citations and public access

The table contains the citations and public access routes. Paywalled DOI or JSTOR landing pages are acceptable bibliographic identities, but they do not prove that the article body has been reviewed. Topic packets must state whether the relevant pages were inspected.