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Keyword english
- Aemilia Lanyer, 17th-C English Woman Poet
- http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/lanyer/lanyer.htm
- This site, dedicated to the English poet Aemilia Lanyer, includes a biography, works fromSalve Deus Rex Judaeorumand a Lanyer Listserv:
- keywords: aemilia, lanyer, english
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Lanyer, Aemilia
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Alarums and Defeats:Henry VIon Tour
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/hampalar.htm
- Hampton-Reeves, Stuart. "Alarums and Defeats:Henry VIon Tour."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (1999). Hampton-Reeves provides a reading, based on a production ofHenry VIby the English Shakespeare Company, examining regional and national identity as well as a sense of lost community:
- keywords: community, company, english, 1H6, henry, identity
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry VI
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Art of English Poesie
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/poesie.html
- Thomas Campion'sObservations on the Art of English Poesiehas been transcribed and added to theRenascence Editionscollection by Risa Bear:
- keywords: art, campion, collection, english, poesie, renascence, richard, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Campion, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Boccaccio- http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml
- Brown University'sDecameron Webhas Boccaccio's text in both English and Italian, as well as many other informative and easy to find features:
- keywords: boccaccio, english
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Boccaccio
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Charles Knight's Shakespeare
- http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/
- Charles Knight's Shakespearefeatures high-quality renderings of the 38 engravings from theImperial Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works(1873). Includes accompanying English and Dutch texts and there are a number of sound recordings for the English texts, along with an overview of Charles Knight's working life:
- keywords: edition, english, life, sound
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Don King's Shakespeare
- http://www.montreat.edu/dking/Shakespeare/English301.htm
- Study materials from Don King's Shakespeare course at Montreat College. Special emphasis on the major tragedies and comedies:
- keywords: college, english, king
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies
- http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-330/
- Rebecca Bushnell's course at U. Penn,English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies, has posted some wonderful visual resources, as well as many maps and portraits:
- keywords: course, english, maps, renaissance, portrait
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- English Literary History
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/
- English Literary History (ELH)is a refereed journal that focuses on the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature.Project Museprovides free access to some of this journal's articles, however, most require a subscription:
- keywords: articles, english, history, journal
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Erasmus's Praise of Folly
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=erasmus&PagePosition=1
- The praise of Folie. Moriae Encomium, a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. (Moriae encomium. English). [Imprinted at London]: in Fletestrete in the House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, [1549] Anno. M.D.LXIX. View this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: english, erasmus, library, london, praise, folly
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Erasmus
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Introducing Early Modern English Documents
- http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/mambo/CERRA/MEMED/
- The Centre d'Etudes et Recherche sur la Renaissance Anglaise in Montpellier presents theMontpellier Early Modern English Documents. This is a "collection of electronic texts prepared for the online community of Renaissance scholars":
- keywords: early, modern, english, e-texts
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English- http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/
- LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, c.1480-1702. Unfortunately, you or your institution must have a subscription:
- keywords: database, dictionaries, english, encyclopedia, lexicon
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Dictionaries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism- http://www.geocities.com/litpageadd/moultongeneral.html
- Moulton, Charles Wells.Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, 1901. Text provides a collection of commentaries and criticism from the Early Modern Period through to the late nineteenth century:
- keywords: collection, criticism, english, library
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries
- http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01toc.html
- There is a special issue ofEMLSdevoted to discoveries made with the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) at the University of Toronto at:
- keywords: database, dictionaries, early modern, english, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1567)
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=ovid&PagePosition=1
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.. The XV. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis. (Metamorphoses. English). London : William Seres, 1567. This text is made available through theFurness Collection:
- keywords: english, library, london, metamorphoses, ovid, william
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Records of Early English Drama (REED)- http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html
- Records of Early English Drama (REED), from the Centre for Research in Early English Drama at the University of Toronto, provides useful links to early drama and other Medieval sites:
- keywords: drama, english, medieval
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Renaissance Architecture - Great Buildings Online
- http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/renaissance.html
- This site links to a number of pages with examples of Renaissance architecture, including English work as well as Continental. Unfortunately, some images are only available on CD-ROM:
- keywords: architecture, english, buildings
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Architecture
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Renascence Editions- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
- Check theRenascence Editionsat the University of Oregon for works printed in English, 1477-1799; well-represented authors include Milton, Spenser, Sidney and the prolific Anonymous:
- keywords: english, milton, renascence, spenser
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Shakespeare Lectures- http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lectures.htm
- Johnson, Ian. Lectures:Studies in ShakespeareMalaspina University-College, Nanaimo, Spring 2002. Course lectures on numerous Shakespeare plays includingHenry IV, Part 1,Henry V,As You Like It,Twelfth Night,Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth,The Tempest,Antony and Cleopatra,Richard II, andRichard IIIas well as Shakespeare background material:
- keywords: ant, anthony, cleopatra, ayl, as you like it, lectures, english, ham, hamlet, 1h4, h8, henry, lr, king, lear, mac, macbeth, r2, r3, richard, tempest, tmp, twelfth night, tn
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
Shakespeare and the Players- http://shakespeare.emory.edu/players_index.cfm
- Shakespeare and the Playersis a fascinating survey through postcards of the many now unfamiliar English and American actors who played Shakespeare's characters for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences:
- keywords: english, american, actors, postcards, players
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- SparkNotes
- http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/
- Sparknotes.comoffers introductory summaries, character descriptions, and brief discussions of themes and motifs for each of Shakespeare's plays. Sections such as "Key Facts" are useful to review before reading. This is a commercial site, so some materials are not available unless you sign up:
- keywords: english, review, summaries
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Surfing for Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature on the Web
- http://surfing-for-shakespeare.webs.com/
- Surfing for Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature on the Web includes links to literature, online texts, authors, magazines, sources and documents, references, and more. The site is maintained by Carlo M. Bajetta from the Université de la Vallée d'Aoste.
- keywords: english, resources, links
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- Texas A&M University Department of English: World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- http://www-english.tamu.edu/wsb/
- The World Shakespeare Bibliographyis available at this site. It can only be accessed by subscription, but the Bibliography is an essential tool for serious researchers, and the rates of subscription are unusually reasonable:
- keywords: bibliography, english
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- The Arte of English Poesie
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PutPoes.html
- The Arte of English Poesieby George Puttenham is available through theElectronic Text Centerat the University of Virginia:
- keywords: george, puttenham, english, poesie
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Puttenham, George
- valid as of 2005-09-13

The Internet Renaissance Band- http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic
- Curtis Clarke's pageThe Internet Renaissance Bandpresents a number of English country dances:
- keywords: english, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14

The Modern English Collection- http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w
- This site at the University of Virginia allows you to search a number of early texts. Most of Shakespeare's plays can be found here in hypertext:
- keywords: collection, english
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12

The Norton Anthology of English Literature- http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature's (NEAL) siteNorton Topics Onlineprovides online documents that assist in contextualizing texts from the Renaissance as well as the Middle Ages, the Restoration, the Romantic period, the Victorian age and the twentieth century. An all-round excellent source, this site provides many contemporary materials, carefully edited and annotated:
- keywords: english, norton, anthology, texts, history
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900
- http://www.bartleby.com/101/
- The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch:
- keywords: english, oxford, verse
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=896
- The World Shakespeare Bibliography Onlineis made available by Texas A&M Unversity's Department of English through subscription only. The bibliography provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare:
- keywords: article, bibliography, electronic, english
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-10-21

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle- http://vos.ucsb.edu/
- Alan Liu'sVoice of the Shuttleprovides electronic texts of a large number of historical literary texts. The site attempts to place these texts in their societal context with sections on Art and Art History, Architecture, Literature (English and other languages), as well as many others:
- keywords: architecture, art, electronic, english, history
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm
- Longstaffe, Steve. "What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?"Renaissance Forum2.2 (Autumn 1997). Longstaffe explores different approaches toward English History Plays, including Shakespeare's.
- keywords: english, forum, history, renaissance, play
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Women Writers Resource Project
- http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
- TheEmory Women Writers Research Projectis home to a collection of texts by women "writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century." Access this collection at:
- keywords: collection, english, seventeenth, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14