Louis Booker Wright

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According to Wikipedia, Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Middle-class culture in Elizabethan England (1938) (184)
The History and Present State of Virginia (1947) (130)
The Reading of Plays during the Puritan Revolution (1934) (55)
The historie of travell into Virginia Britania (1612) (1955) (51)
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. (1942) (36)
The development of the theatre (1937) (31)
The cultural life of the American colonies, 1607-1763 (1957) (30)
Religion and Empire: The Alliance between Piety and Commerce in English Expansion, 1558-1625 (1944) (24)
The first gentlemen of Virginia : intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class (1940) (23)
The Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America (1965) (20)
Propaganda against James I's "Appeasement" of Spain (1943) (20)
Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England. (1960) (19)
William Perkins: Elizabethan Apostle of "Practical Divinity" (1940) (18)
Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660. (1944) (17)
Ancients and moderns (1982) (17)
Culture on the Moving Frontier (1955) (16)
Theater in the ante bellum South, 1815-1861 (1968) (14)
The First Gentlemen of Virginia (1982) (12)
A True Relation of the State of Virginia Lefte by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May Last 1616 (1971) (12)
Advice to a Son: Precepts of Lord Burghley, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Francis Osborne@@@The Complete Gentleman, The Truth of Our Times, and The Art of Living in London (1964) (9)
Animal Actors on the English Stage Before 1642 (1927) (9)
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus (1984) (8)
The first Americans in North Africa;: William Eaton's struggle for a vigorous policy against the Barbary pirates, 1799-1805, (1969) (8)
The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization (1607-1763). (1947) (6)
The Purposeful Reading of Our Colonial Ancestors (1937) (6)
The Elizabethans' America : a collection of early reports by Englishmen on the New World (1966) (6)
American Jewry: Documents Eighteenth Century (1959) (6)
South Carolina: A Bicentennial History (1976) (5)
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1946) (5)
Will Kemp and the Commedia Dell' Arte (1926) (5)
Juggling Tricks and Conjury on the English Stage before 1642 (1927) (5)
The Art of Letter Writing: An Essay on the Handbooks Published in England During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1944) (5)
Puritans in the South Seas. (1936) (5)
The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia--His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712 (1963) (5)
A POLITICAL REFLECTION IN PHILLIP'S PATIENT GRISSELL (1928) (5)
Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786; Being the Travel Diary and Observations of Robert Hunter, Jr., A Young Merchant of London (1944) (5)
The Noble Savage of Madagascar in 1640 (1943) (4)
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA (1939) (4)
The Elizabethan Middle-Class Taste for History (1931) (4)
Gold, glory, and the gospel : the adventurous lives and times of the Renaissance explorers (1971) (4)
Early Tudor Drama (1969) (4)
The Elizabethan Journals: Being a Record of Those Things most talked of During the Years 1591-1603; Compromising An Elizabethan Journal, 1591-4, A Second Elizabethan Journal, 1595-8, A Last Elizabethan Journal, 1599-1603 (1940) (4)
Culture on the Moving Frontier. (1958) (4)
TRANSLATIONS FOR THE ELIZABETHAN MIDDLE CLASS (1932) (4)
The Scriptures and the Elizabethan Stage (1928) (4)
English Interpreters of the Iberian New World from Purchas to Stevens: A Bibliographical study, 1603-1726 (1977) (4)
Advice To A Son (1962) (4)
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (1942) (3)
Essays Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth (1952) (3)
The Founding Fathers and "Splendid Isolation" (1943) (3)
Letters of Robert Carter 1720-1727: The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman. (1941) (3)
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SOME BELATED MORALITIES. (3)
The Arts in America: The Colonial Period (1975) (3)
Alexander Spotswood: Portrait of a Governor. By Walter Havighurst. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. ix + 118 pp. Illustration, note on sources, and index. $3.95.) (1968) (3)
Oak from an Acorn: A History of the American Philosophical Society Library, 1770-1803 (1978) (3)
William Painter and the Vogue of Chaucer as a Moral Teacher (1933) (3)
THe Folger Library -- Two Decades of Growth -- an Informal Account (1968) (3)
Colonial Developments in the Reign of James I (1973) (3)
The Westward Advance of the Atlantic Frontier (1948) (2)
Shakespeare for Everyman (1964) (2)
Introduction to a Survey of Renaissance Studies (1941) (2)
An Essay upon the government of the English plantations on the continent of America (1701) (1946) (2)
Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727;: The commercial interests of a Virginia gentleman (1970) (2)
William Byrd I and the Slave Trade (1945) (2)
English Colonization of North America (1968) (2)
The Elizabethan's America (1966) (2)
The "Gentleman's Library" in Early Virginia: The Literary Interests of the First Carters (1937) (2)
The colonial search for a southern Eden (1953) (2)
Everyday life in the age of enterprise, 1865-1900 (1967) (2)
Humanistic Education and the Democratic State (1943) (2)
The American heritage history of the Thirteen Colonies (1967) (2)
ELIZABETHAN SEA DRAMA AND ITS STAGING. (2)
Intellectual History and the Colonial South (1959) (2)
Some Early "Friends" of Libraries (1939) (1)
The Moving Frontier: North America Seen Through the Eyes of Its Pioneer Discoverers (1973) (1)
The Folger Library as a Research Institution (1952) (1)
American heritage : an anthology and interpretive survey of our literature (1955) (1)
Stage Duelling in the Elizabethan Theatre (1927) (1)
For the Study of the American Cultural Heritage (1944) (1)
A Note on Dramatic Piracy (1928) (1)
William Byrd of Virginia: The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings (1958) (1)
Heywood and the Popularizing of History (1928) (1)
Tudor and Stuart History. A Report of the Folger Library Conference on Needs and Opportunities. Held in Celebration of the Fourth Centenary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth I. (1959) (1)
Tradition and the Founding Fathers. (1976) (1)
The Male-Friendship Cult in Thomas Heywood's Plays (1927) (1)
Beverley's History ... of Virginia (1705): A Neglected Classic (1944) (1)
Magna Carta and the Tradition of Liberty (1976) (1)
William Eaton, Timothy Pickering, and Indian Policy (1946) (1)
Everyday life in colonial America (1965) (1)
Technology in Western Civilization. Vol. 1, The Emergence of Modern Industrial Society, Earliest Times to 1900. Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., Eds. Oxford University Press, New York, 1967. 814 pp., illus. $8.50 (1967) (1)
Pious Reading in Colonial Virginia (1940) (1)
VARIETY-SHOW CLOWNERY ON THE PRE-RESTORATION STAGE. (1)
Of books and men (1976) (1)
Life on the American frontier (1941) (1)
The Utility of the Special Research Library (1957) (1)
The private collector and the support of scholarship : papers read at a Clark Library seminar, April 5, 1969 (1969) (1)
First American Campaign in North Africa (1944) (1)
A Working Library of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century History (1960) (1)
Book Review: George Mason, Gentleman Revolution by Helen Hill Miller (1976) (0)
The Significance of Religious Writings in the English Renaissance (1940) (0)
Education in Renaissance England. Kenneth Charlton (1966) (0)
William Byrd's Opposition to Governor Francis Nicholson (1945) (0)
THOMAS HEYWOOD'S LATER REPUTATION (1928) (0)
Purpose and adventure in book-collecting : an address before the library patrons of Occidental College (1956) (0)
Puritans in the South Seas (1936) (0)
Book Reviews: Washington. Capital City, 1879-1950. Volume Two. By Constance McLaughlin Green (1965) (0)
The Hand-Produced Book . David Diringer. Philosophical Library, New York, 1953. 603 pp. Illus. $15 (1954) (0)
Literature in the Colonial South (1947) (0)
An Obligation to Shakespeare and the Public (1963) (0)
The Life and Death of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. By G. B. Harrison. (New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1937. Pp. xi, 359. $3.00.) (1938) (0)
The Pelican Shakespeare.@@@Richard II.@@@I Henry IV.@@@2 Henry IV@@@Henry V. (1958) (0)
Shakespeare's England (1965) (0)
Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization: Music in Elizabethan England.@@@Shakespeare's Theatre and the Dramatic Tradition.@@@The Life of William Shakespeare.@@@The Bible in English, 1525-1611.@@@English Dress in the Age of Shakespeare.@@@The English Church in the Sixteenth Century. (1959) (0)
A New Manifest Destiny in the Pacific: An American View (1943) (0)
The Democratic experience : a short American history (1963) (0)
A Note on R. W. Chambers (1967) (0)
The Arts in Early American History by Walter Muir Whitehill, Wendell D. Garrett, and Jane N. Garrett (1965) (0)
Four famous Tudor and Stuart plays (1963) (0)
History: Dismal Science or Delight (1972) (0)
The Cultural life of the American colonies / by Louis B. Wright (1962) (0)
The Britain than Shakespeare knew (1964) (0)
Book Reviews: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878. By Constance McLaughlin Green. (1963) (0)
An Essay upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent of America (1701): An Anonymous Virginian's Proposals for Liberty under the British Crown, with Two Memoranda by William Byrd. (1945) (0)
This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest. By Robert Glass Cleland. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. xv + 361 + xx pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical notes, and index. $4.00.) (1950) (0)
Shakespeare celebrated : anniversary lectures delivered at the Folger Library (1967) (0)
NOTES ON THOMAS HEYWOOD'S LATER REPUTATION (1928) (0)
Book Reviews: The Southern Counties in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689, by Wesley Frank Craven (1949) (0)
The Americans: The Colonial Experiment (1959) (0)
A " Character " from Chaucer in a Seventeenth Century Satire (0)
The play's the thing : seventeen of Shakespeare's greatest dramas (1963) (0)
On "The States and the Nation" Series (1978) (0)
The Heart Prepared: Grace and Conversion in Puritan Spiritual Life. By Norman Pettit. [Yale Publications in American Studies, Number 11.] (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1966. Pp. ix, 252. $5.75) (1967) (0)
More Than a Library (1933) (0)
Newes from the New-World (1946) (0)
The Hand-Produced Book. David Diringer. Philosophical Library, New York, 1953. 603 pp. Illus. $15 (1954) (0)
William Byrd of Westover, An American Pepys (1940) (0)
American literature : an anthology with critical introductions (1966) (0)
A visual guide to Shakespeare's life and times (1975) (0)
The Colonial Civilization of North America (1950) (0)
The American tradition : national characteristics, past and present (1941) (0)
William Byrd's Defense of Sir Edmund Andros (1945) (0)
Shakespeare's theatre and the dramatic tradition (1958) (0)
Book Review: Patrick Henry, Patriot in the Making, by Robert Douthat Meade (1959) (0)
John Wesley: Scholar and Critic (1930) (0)
Garrett Mattingly, Historian and Man of Letters (1963) (0)
The Dispersal of the Phillipps Library. Phillipps Studies No. 5. A. N. L. Munby (1962) (0)
WILLIAM BYRD (VIRGINIA) (1960) (0)
New interpretations of American colonial history (1963) (0)
O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years. By Howard Mumford Jones. (New York: Viking Press, 1964. xiv + 464 pp. Plates, notes, and index. $8.50.) (1965) (0)
Notes on Fulgens and Lucres: New Light on the Interlude (0)
Richard Lee II, a Belated Elizabethan in Virginia (1938) (0)
The Elizabethans' America: A Collection of Early Reports by Englishmen on the New World. (1968) (0)
The Voice of the Old Frontier. By R. W. G. Vail, Director, New-York Historical Society, Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1949. Pp. xii, 492. $15.00.) (1950) (0)
A Shorthand Diary of William Byrd of Westover (1939) (0)
An Essay Upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent of America (1701): An Anonymous Virginian's Proposals for Liberty Under the British Crown. (1946) (0)
Anglo-American cultural relations in the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries (1958) (0)
Othello; King Lear. (1959) (0)
The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799–1836. By John Davies. Edited by C. W. Newbury. Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1961. lvi, 392 pp. $7.50. (1962) (0)
John Skelton, Laureate. By WILLIAM NELSON. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1939. Pp. vi, 266. $3.00.) (1940) (0)
The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England. Samuel Eliot Morison (1958) (0)
England's Eliza. Elkin Calhoun Wilson (1940) (0)
David Beers Quinn. England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620. From the Bristol Voyage of the Fifteenth Century to the Pilgrim Settlement at Plymouth: The Exploration, Exploitation, and Trial-by-Error Colonization of North America by the English. (1975) (0)
Toward a New History of American Literature (1940) (0)
Gold, glory, and the gospel (1970) (0)
Obligation of intellectuals to be intelligent (1978) (0)
Governor Tryon and his palace (1955) (0)

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