Literary Resources -- Renaissance

• Mailing lists and calls for papers
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Renaissance and Seventeenth Century
• Course Syllabi
• Shakespeare is well served by:
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (Terry Gray, Palomar) -- The best of the lot: extensive and scholarly. O si sic omnes!
  • Usenet newsgroup humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare -- A good form for discussion. Authorship discussions can sometimes overwhelm others.
  • Shakespeare Homepage (MIT)
  • Furness Shakespeare Library (Univ. of Pennsylvania) -- "A collection of primary and secondary sources, including both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts, theatrical production, and criticism, Furness Library resources are now being selectively scanned and mounted here to make them available for class and research use and to draw attention to the richer resources available in the Library as a whole." Very scholarly. O si sic omnes!
  • Shakespeare Internet Sites (Michael Best, Victoria) -- "A sampling of resources and scholarly uses of the medium of the Internet, concentrating on early modern literary studies." Dozens of well organized and annotated links to early modern resources.
  • Shakespeare & Renaissance Home Page (Alan Baragona, VMI) -- A few dozen links, associated with a VMI class.
  • The Shakespeare Web -- "An interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works." Unscholarly.
  • Shakespeare Page (Clark Holloway) -- Includes a complete facsimile of Much Ado about Nothing (2nd folio, 1632), along with images, essays, and commentary by Johnson.
  • A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Ian Delaney) -- A study guide to the play for A-level students (upper-level high school). Includes text, review questions, links, a discussion group, and related texts (Saxo Grammaticus, Belleforest, T. S. Eliot, and others). Not for scholars, but a useful introduction for beginners.
  • Approaches to Shakespeare (David Worrall, St. Mary's Strawberry Hill) -- Pages for a course on Shakespeare, with extensive contextual materials and useful links on Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.
  • Shakespeare-Genootschap van Nederland en Vlaanderen (Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries) -- Information on the Society in Dutch and English.
  • Renaissance Texts Research Centre: Shakespeare and the Globe (Chantal Miller-Schütz, Reading, UK) -- A guide to the new Globe, with links to other Shakespeare resources.
  • Internet Shakespeare Editions (Michael Best, Victoria) -- "The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet. ... The Library itself will contain fully refereed materials only, and in due course will be the core of the Editions; at present, however, there are no fully developed texts yet available."
  • Shakespeare Database Project (Münster) -- Information on the database, but no access to it.
  • World Shakespeare Bibliography (TAMU) -- Information on the bibliography, available commercially.
  • Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand Inc. -- Information on the Centre.
  • Shakespeare Birthplace Trust -- Mostly information for tourist. Requires frames; very graphics-heavy.
  • Shakespeare Institute Library (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) -- Information on the library and its collections.
  • The Authorship Question:
    • The Shakespeare Authorship Page (Terry Ross and David Kathman) -- "Dedicated to critically examining claims that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him." Impressively scholarly.
    • Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page -- "The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare."
    • The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook (Mark Alexander) -- "This SOURCEBOOK aims to provide direct and comprehensive access to evidence and arguments related to the Shakespeare authorship controversy as it applies to Shakspere of Stratford and Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. As much as possible, we will provide uncluttered access to original texts and documents with a clear presentation of Stratfordian and Oxfordian interpretations." In spite of the protestations, there's a marked leaning toward Oxfordianism.
    • Shake-n-Bacon -- Extensive "proof" that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works.
    • Who Wrote the Works? -- On Baconian cyphers in Shakespeare.
    • Marlowe Lives! (David More) -- "Elizabethan poet-dramatist Christopher Marlowe was not killed in 1593, but banished; he continued writing under the pseudonym 'William Shakespeare.'"
    • The Shakespeare Question (R. W. Bivens-Tatum) -- An overview of the authorship question, with links to the major sites on authorship (including orthodox Stratfordian sties).
    • Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning -- Contains extensive information on Bacon -- sometimes scholarly, sometimes not -- with an agenda to promote Bacon's claims to the Shakespeare canon.
• Other Renaissance sites:
  • Early Modern Literary Studies (Alberta) -- Extensive and authoritative information on all aspects of Renaissance studies.
  • Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen) -- Beautifully designed collection of author pages.
  • Early Modern England Source (EMES) -- Plentiful information on meetings and seminars.
  • CERES: Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service -- A good set of links and a newsletter on Renaissance scholarship.
  • Renaissance Texts (John Tinkler, Towson) -- A brief guide to on-line resources.
  • Centers:
    • The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto) -- Information on the Centre.
    • Centre for Renaissance and Medieval Studies (Glasgow) -- Information on the Centre.
  • Drama:
    • The Early Modern Drama Database (Columbia) -- A chronological list of all public performances of drama in London from 1576 to 1642. Still in progress.
    • "Native Dyes": Race and Politics in the Jacobean Masque (Chad Edward Weidner and Karolien Walravens, Univ. of Bayreuth) -- A collaborative essay on three masques: Jonson's Masque of Blackness, Middleton's Triumphs of Honour and Virtue, and Chapman's Memorable Masque. A single illustrated document (not hypertextual).
    • Florimène at the Court of Charles I (Washington) -- Information on, and a sample of, "an animated exploration and reconstruction of Inigo Jones' great court masque." Free software.
  • Poetry and Ballads:
    • Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (Bartleby) -- Texts of poems by Butler, Carew, Cleveland, Cowley, Crashaw, Davenant, Donne, Godolphin, Herbert, King, Lovelace, Marvell, Milton, Philips, Quarles, Suckling, Vaughan, Wotton, and others.
    • Pre-1600 English Ballads (Greg Lindahl) -- Transcription and analysis of early ballads.
  • Renaissance Electronic Texts (Toronto) -- "A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period." Only a few texts are on-line so far.
  • GGRENir (Heinrich C. Kuhn) -- Very extensive "Internetography on Renaissance intellectual history," collecting hundreds of annotated links on learning and the arts, 1348-1648. Searchable in many ways.
  • Journals:
    • Exemplaria -- A full-text on-line journal of theory in Medieval and Renaissance studies.
    • Renaissance Forum (Hull) -- Full-text on-line journal.
  • Geistesgeschichte (Schwerpunkt: der Renaissance) (Heinrich C. Kuhn) -- Links to pages on Renaissance intellectual history. Annotations in German.
  • A Local Habitation and a Name: Social Sites of Renaissance Lyrics (Jeffrey Powers-Beck and students, East Tennessee State Univ.) -- "This seminar project ... attempts to recover the connections between historical places and lyrics, to show the poems' attachments to material places and their social environs." Heavily annotated poems, including maps and sound files of the poems being read aloud.
  • The Gunpowder Plot Pages -- "These pages chronicle the plot, its celebration, and the period." More popular than scholarly.
  • Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) (Rutgers) -- "Its aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815 C.E." Contains information on historical prices and currency exchange.
  • Montpellier Early Modern English Documents (MEMED) -- Just a few E-texts of obscure Renaissance texts. Carefully edited, in modern spelling.
  • Medieval & Renaissance History (NYU) -- A few dozen links on medieval and Renaissance culture and history.
  • Renaissance Florence (Michael Papio, Holy Cross) -- A well-designed course page on Renaissance humanism, with useful links.
  • The Forest of Rhetoric (Gideon Burton, BYU) -- "A guide to the terms of classical and Renaissance rhetoric." Admirably thorough, with extensive cross-references and examples. Requires frames.
  • Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) -- Information on the searchable database.
  • EDICTA: Early Dictionaries/Dictionnaires Anciens (Toronto) -- Information on the project "to publish electronic and computer-assisted editions of early dictionaries of English, French and Latin" and research on them.
  • Andrea Alciato:
    • Alciato's Book of Emblems (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland) -- Illustrated Latin and English edition with extensive commentary.
  • Sir Thomas Browne:
    • Sir Thomas Browne (James Eason, Univ. of Chicago) -- Electronic texts of Browne's works.
  • Margaret Cavendish:
    • Margaret Cavendish Bibliography (James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona Univ.) -- Selected recent publications. No annotation.
  • Miguel de Cervantes:
    • The Don Quixote Exhibit (Johns Hopkins) -- On-line exhibition.
  • Abraham Cowley:
    • The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive (Daniel Kinney, Virginia) -- Texts, portraits, and page images.
  • Desiderius Erasmus:
    • Erasmus of Rotterdam Society -- Information on the Society and tables of contents of the journal.
  • Aemilia Lanyer:
    • Aemilia Lanyer (Kari Boyd McBride, Univ. of Arizona) -- Biography, good bibliography (no annotations), E-texts, information on the Lanyer listserv.
  • Christopher Marlowe:
    • The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Perseus Project, Tufts) -- "This site provides an edition of Marlowe's works that begins to transcend the limits of print publication and exploit the flexibility of an electronic medium."
  • Richard Lovelace:
    • The Richard Lovelace Page -- Links to E-texts. Unscholarly: "Sir Richard Lovelace wrote very few poems, but they were all beautiful. Here are all that I know to be on the web. With his charm and nobility of character, Lovelace won the hearts of not only the ladies, but also the men of his troubled time. He still wins the odd heart today."
  • Thomas Middleton:
    • The Plays of Thomas Middleton (Chris Cleary) -- Many annotated E-texts (in modern spelling), with links to some scholarship.
  • John Milton:
    • Milton-L Home Page (Kevin Creamer, Richmond) -- A site to support Kevin Creamer's excellent mailing list. Includes chronologies, E-texts, book reviews, events, &c.
    • Milton Review (Kevin Creamer, Richmon) -- On-line review of Milton studies.
    • John Milton Reading Room (Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth) -- Good, reliable E-texts of Milton's works, some with commentary and textual variants, along with a Selected Bibliography of Criticism, 1987-1996.
    • Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources (R. G. Siemens, Univ. of Alberta) -- iEMLS reproduces Siemens's extensive bibliography, with useful commentary, from The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd ed. Over 300 items. Mighty impressive.
  • Michel de Montaigne:
    • Montaigne Studies (Chicago) -- Information on the journal, including tables of contents, with links to other sites.
  • Edmund Spenser:
    • Edmund Spenser Home Page (Richard Beear, Oregon) -- "Seeks to collect any and all Net materials pertaining to the works and life of Edmund Spenser." Splendid collection of texts and links.