Locke (Penguin, 1993), a full and careful presentation of many of his incidental writings on politics in Locke,

Essays,

ed. Mark Goldie (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and a valuable selection of Locke’s

Writings on Religion (ed. Victor Nuovo, Clarendon Press, 2002). Other published works of Locke are still most conveniently consulted in the 18th - or 19th - century editions of his

Collected Works.

Maurice Cranston’s

John Locke: A Biography (Longman, London, 1957) is informative but less vivid than Laslett’s Introduction to the

Two Treatises . There is a major modern biography of Shaftesbury by K. H. D. Haley,

The First Earl of Shaftesbury (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968), and a remarkable (if not invariably reliable) study of Locke’s role in Shaftesbury’s political enterprises in the late Richard Ashcraft’s

Revolutionary Politics

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