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People/CharactersNicholas Breton

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Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold
The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith
Life in Elizabethan England by A. H. Dodd
Life in Shakespeare's England by John Dover Wilson
Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times by R. E. Pritchard

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