Editions

• The affectionate shepheard Containing the complaint of Daphnis for the loue of Ganymede. London : Printed by Iohn Danter for T. G[ubbin] and E. N[ewman] and are to bee sold in Saint Dunstones Church-yeard [sic] in Fleetstreet, 1594.
• Greenes funeralls. With Nicholas Breton. Printed at London : By Iohn Danter, and are to be sold at his house in hosier-lane nere holbourne-conduit, 1594.
• Cynthia VVith certaine sonnets, and the legend of Cassandra. At London : Printed for Humfrey Lownes, and are to bee sold at the vvest doore of Paules, 1595.
• The encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The praise of money. By Richard Barnfeild, graduate in Oxford. London : Printed by G. S. for Iohn Iaggard, and are to be solde at his shoppe neere Temple-barre, at the signe of the Hand and starre, 1598.
• Lady Pecunia, or The praise of money Also a combat betwixt conscience and couetousnesse. Togither with, the complaint of poetry, for the death of liberality. Newly corrected and inlarged, by Richard Barnfield, graduate in Oxford. London : Printed by W[illiam] I[aggard] and are to bee sold by Iohn Hodgets dwelling in Paules Churchyard a little beneath Paules Schoole, 1605.
• A louers newest curranto, or, The lamentation of a young mans folly to a pleasant new tune. Printed at London : For L.W., [ca. 1625].
• The Complete Poems. Ed. George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Toronto: Associated UP, 1990.
   

Excerpts of Barnfield's Work in Anthologies

 

Entries

• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 172: Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers. 4th series. Ed. David A. Richardson. Detroit: Gale, 1996.
• GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Ed. Claude J. Summers. "Richard Barnfield (1574-1620?)." George Klawitter. 19 July 2007.

 

Secondary Works

• Borris, Kenneth. "Critical Introduction: Barnfield's Reception and Significance." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 13-24.
• ---. "'Ile hang a bag and a bottle at thy back': Barnfield's Homoerotic Advocacy and the Construction of Homosexuality." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 193-248.
• ---. "R[ichard] B[arnfield]'s Homosocial Engineering in Orpheus His Journey to Hell." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 332-60.
• ---, and George Klawitter, ed. The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001.
• Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. London: Gay Men's P, 1982.
• Bredbeck, Gregory W. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1991.
• ---. "Tradition and the Individual Sodomite: Barnfield, Shakespeare, and Subjective Desire." Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context. Ed. Claude J. Summers. New York, London, and Norwood: The Haworth P, 1992. 41-68.
• Charles, Casey. "Barnfield's Lover's Discourse." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 174-92.
• Collier, John Payne. "Shakespeare and Barnfield." Notes & Queries, 2nd series, 2 (1856): 8-9.
• Crawford, Charles. "Richard Barnfield, Marlowe, and Shakespeare." Notes & Queries, 9th series, 8 (1901): 217-19, 277-79.
• Daughtery, Leo. "The Question of Topical Allusion in Richard Barnfield's Pastoral Verse." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 45-61.
• DiGangi, Mario. "'My Plentie Makes Me Poore': Linguistic and Erotic Failure in 'The Affectionate Shepheard.'" In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 149-73.
• Doyle, Andrew. "Richard Barnfield: The Overlooked Autograph." Notes & Queries 50.1 (March 2003): 70-74.
• Ellis, Jim. "Orpheus at the Inns of Court." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 283-304.
• Folkerth, Wes. "The Metamorphosis of Daphnis: The Case for Richard Barnfield's Orpheus." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 305-31.
• Frontain, Raymond-Jean. "'An Affectionate Shepheard sicke for Love': Barnfield's Homoerotic Appropriation of the Song of Solomon." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 99-114.
• Giantvalley, Scott. "Barnfield, Drayton, and Marlowe: Homoeroticism and Homosexuality in Elizabethan Literature." Pacific Coast Philology 16 (1981): 9-24.
• Guy-Bray, Stephen. Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: U of Toronto P, 2002.
• Hammond, Paul. Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2002.
• Hebel, J. William, et al, eds. "Notes on Richard Barnfield." In Tudor Poetry and Prose. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953. 1233-34.
• Henneman, J. B. "Barnfied's Ode: 'As It Fell Upon A Day.'" In An English Miscellany. Oxford, 1901.
• James, Wilfred P. "The Life and Work of Richard Barnfield." Ph.D. diss, Northwestern U, 1952.
• Klawitter, George. "Barnfield's Penelope Devereux, Exalted and Reviled." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 62-82.
• ---. "Richard Barnfield, 1574-1620." George Klawitter's Professional Homepage. 19 July 2007.
• ---. "Introduction." In Richard Barnfield: The Complete Poems. Ed. George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Toronto: Associated UP, 1990. 11-58.
• Malpezzi, Frances. "Barnfield's Variations on the Theme of Avarice in Lady Pecunia." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 251-62.
• McCarthy, Penny. Psyeudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
• McNeir, Waldo F. "Barnfield's Borrowings from Spenser." Notes & Queries 200 (1955): 510-11.
• Montrose, Louis Adrian. "Of Gentlemen and Shepherds: The Politics of Elizabethan Pastoral Form." ELH 50.3 (Autumn 1983): 415-59.
• Morris, Harry. "Richard Barnfield: The Affectionate Shepherd." Tulane Studies in English 10 (1960): 13-38.
• ---. "Richard Barnfield, 'Amyntas,' and the Sidney Circle." PMLA 74 (1959): 318-24.
• ---. Richard Barnfield, Colin's child. Tallahassee: Florida State UP, 1963.
• Norton, Rictor. "Affectionate Shepherds." In The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition. Gay History and Literature. 19 July 2007.
• ---. "Pastoral Homoeroticism and Barnfield, the Affectionate Shepherd." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 117-29.
• Pigg, Daniel F. "Barnfield's 'Certain Sonnets' 8." Explicator 57.1 (Fall 1998): 14-17.
• Prescott, Anne Lake. "Barnfield's Spenser: 'Great Collin' and the Art of Denial." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 85-98.
• Sinfield, Alan. Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Smith, Bruce R. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics. Chicago and London: The U of Chicago P, 1991.
• Summers, Claude J. "Homosexuality and Renaissance Literature, or the Anxieties of Anachronism. South Central Review 9.1 (Spring 1992): 2-23.
• Theodore, David. "'Gay is the right word': Montague Summers and the Replevin of Richard Barnfield." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 265-79.
• Whitworth, Stephen. "Passing for Mean: Barnfield and the Aristotlean Poetics of Copulation." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29.3 (Summer 1999): 71-86.
• Woods, Gregory. A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1998.
• Worrall, Andrew. "Biographical Introduction: Barnfield's Feast of 'all Varietie.'" In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 25-38.
• ---. "Richard Barnfield: A New Biography." Notes and Queries 39 (September 1992): 370-71.
• Yen, Julie W. "'If it be sinne to love a sweet-fac'd Boy': Rereading Homoerotic Desire in Barnfield's Ganymede Poems." In The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield. Ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London and Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2001. 130-48.