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Shakespeare Studies Links
Early Mod Research Links
OTHER ENGLISH LIT LINKS
Useful links
for students of medieval
and early modern literature
Click here for my STUDY GUIDES
to various readings in my courses.
Click here for my dedicated list of
Early Modern Research Links
(And before you begin studying, enjoy this satiric video on the
perils of internet research:
Professor
Wikipedia, via CollegeHumor.com)
(and another funny video about figurative language and its dangers)
New! I've
posted my Early
Modern Holiday Calendar -- start planning what you'll buy your sweetheart
for St. Swithin's Day! And find out why the women get to handcuff the men
on Hock-Tide!
GENERAL BRITISH
LIT:
Luminarium:
a beautiful and exhaustive guide to literature in our period
The Voice
of the Shuttle: another broad but well-maintained listing of literature links
in all periods
Literary
Locales: pictures of famous places in British Lit
Helpful Timelines of
English History from the BBC
Some downloadable
student guides to Early English Literature
Silva Rhetoricae (The
Forest of Rhetoric) -- your definitive guide to rhetorical terms and figures of
speech; indispensable for students of Early Modern Literature
For language addicts: an online
Etymology List -- the origins
of thousands of words.
A helpful website on
"How to Read a Poem"
A helpful
discussion of the elements and humors
A
genealogy of the Kings and Queens of England, focusing on how the lines of
succession get passed from family to family
A detailed map of
Early Modern London, if you need to know where Chaucer and Shakespeare hung
out.
Very valuable
British
History site, with links to digitized primary documents.
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE:
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University -- possibly the most comprehensive resource for medieval lit studies
Godecookery.com -- one of my personal favorites -- a wonderful site with well-researched material on Early Modern life -- especially food and feasting - and lots of pictures and graphics.
Fordham University's Medieval Sourcebook -- internet texts of medieval works.
An excellent links page with
sites about
Courtly Love
The
Geoffrey Chaucer Page's discussion of Courtly Love
The actual text of
Andreas
Capellanus' Art of Courtly Love
Beowulf
for Beginners, a wonderful introductory site hosted by the University of
Aberdeen
Beowulf an Steorarum
(Beowulf in Cyberspace), a longstanding site with lots of goodies, including a
parallel Old/Modern English text.
Some good
sound
files of Beowulf spoken in Old English
A useful links collection for Anglo-Saxon England, from ORB: the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
CHAUCER:
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - a rich source of links to online texts and resources
The text
of CT with an interactive glossary - uses frames, but
this is the best one I've seen for reading the actual Middle English
Harvard University's superb explanatory
notes for the Canterbury Tales
More
Prologue study notes
A parallel
Middle English/ Modern English text of the Prologue
A
modern translation of the Wife of Bath's Tale
Another
modern-translation Canterbury Tales site
A must-have! An
interlinear
translation of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
A study guide and outline for
The Booke of Margery Kempe
ARTHURIAN LIT:
A site with notes
to Marie de France's Lanval
Another site with
good background
info on Lanval and Arthurian Lit
A wonderful general site for Arthurian studies: The
Camelot Project
A list of web
resources for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Some original
illustrations for SGGK
A good,
student-authored section-by-section
synopsis with analysis
A plot
summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
MEDIEVAL DRAMA:
A page of links to study sites on Medieval
Drama
A gallery of photos from productions
of Medieval Drama by the Medieval & Renaissance Players of Toronto
More Medieval
Drama production photos by Theatre Marot (Netherlands)
A helpful study guide
for Everyman
The Miracle Players -- an Italian Theatre group with a fun site about their
production of Everyman
A terrific overview of
The
Development of English Drama, Medieval-Renaissance, by Prof. Jennifer Mooney
of Virginia Tech.
DANTE'S INFERNO:
A really useful
Study
Guide from Prof. Diane Thompson.
A lovely
multi-media Study Guide at the University of Texas.
More good
study questions from Dr. L. Kip Wheeler
EARLY MODERN LITERATURE:
GENERAL:
Renaissance:
the Elizabethan World: -- Indispensable! The place
to go if you want to know what life was like in Shakespeare's England.
Contains the fantastic Compendium of Common Knowledge, a lively and interesting source of
information about Renaissance life, politics and history. Includes
a wonderful bibliography.
Virtual Renaissance -- a delightful site developed by grade-school students that allows you to imagine life in 16th c. England
The Early Modern England Source Site
The "Early Modern Resources" page -- Dr. Sharon Howard's excellent collection of links to online scholarship in a number of topics.
A fabulous timeline for Elizabethan/Jacobean political history
Just for fun: The Tudor Times
Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas -- A beautiful site with resources about the Voyages of Exploration
Sonnets.org -- the one-stop shop for sonnet fans
Need to know what a "nugging dress" is? Want to impress your friends with archaic obscenities? Check out the online copy of the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
And yes, there are Early Modern blogs --
Earmarks: Early Modern Culture (now titled "Serendipities")
Carnivalesque
Early Modern Notes (more news items than blog)
MARLOWE:
SparkNotes.com's
somewhat helpful guide to Dr. Faustus
Another summary
of Dr. Faustus
More helpful discussion
notes on Dr. Faustus by Dr. Clare Kinney at U. Virginia -- and another
set of notes by the same author
SPENSER:
Synopses
of The Faerie Queene
The Edmund Spenser
Home Page
Brother Anthony's
helpful summaries
A page devoted to Sidney and the sonnet tradition by former CMU English prof Catherine Don Diego
A Ben Jonson page from San Antonio College
Shakespeare Studies at CMU Links page
RESTORATION/18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE:
PARADISE LOST LINKS:
SparkNotes -- helpful Study Guide
A partial Outline
of the Text from Mary Ann Andrade, Collin County Community College
Images of Paradise Lost
from
William Blake and others:
Study Guide: The Fall: Books 9-10 (Prof.
Desmet-UGA)
A Virtual Tour of Restoration London, by
Molly Brown, author of a historical novel set in the period
A site
dedicated to Restoration (the film) -- with links to resources on
politics, society, medicine, etc.
18th Century Resources
-- a comprehensive list of links
"The Rape
of the Lock" Home Page
Gulliver's
Travels Homepage
JANE AUSTEN:
A Great Page for Jane Austen Fans: The
Republic of Pemberley
The Jane Austen Society of North
America (JASNA)
Persuasions -- the
Journal of Jane Austen Studies
