SOURCES FOR THE WHORE OF BABYLON

Bible, The. 'Revelation.' Read in Tyndale's trans., or in Coverdale's version of it, or in the Great Bible of 1539.

Holinshed, Raphael. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577). 1583 edtn.

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (1590).

Stowe, John. The Annals of England (1592).

True Discourse of the Army which the King of Spain Assembled in Lisbon, A. Anon. trans. (1588).

(perhaps) True Report of Sundry Horrible Conspiracies to Have Taken Away the Life of the Queen's Majesty, A (1594).

REFERENCE : Marianne Gateson Riely, ed. The Whore of Babylon by Thomas Dekker: A Critical Edition. New York: Garland, 1980.