The exact dates of the Renaissance period can differ from one scholar to the next, but generally took place during from the late 15th to the early 17th century. The sub-periods include: Early Tudor (1485-1558), Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-1625), Caroline (1625-1649), & the Commwealth (1949-1660). Literature of the Renaissance typically appeared in the poem and drama form. Authors from this period, are often association with the rediscovery of the classics by the Greeks and Romans. Well known writers of this period include, but not limited to, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton (http://www.online-literature.com/periods/renaissance.php). Below are some Website that may help you in your research.
Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England by 
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by 
English Literature by 
The English Renaissance, 1500-1620 by 
Iconographic Research in English Renaissance Literature by 
An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Drama by 
Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature by 
English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory by 
Frame, Glass, Verse by 
Refiguring the Sacred Feminine by 
Sidney's the Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by 
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser by 
The Cambridge Introduction to Christopher Marlowe by 
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton by 
The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature by 
The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost by 
Spenser's Supreme Fiction by 
The Development of the Sonnet by 
