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General Resources in Renaissance & 17th-C. Lit.
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies ("library and research centre devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700") (U. Toronto)
Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts 
Electric Renaissance Timelines (E. L. Skip Knox, Boise State U.)
English Literature & Religion ("large bibliographical database about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century") (William S. Peterson, U. Maryland, College park)
English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition (large-scale archive of literary texts in the era of Spenser, including primary texts, biography, and criticism; "the 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers — imitators and emulators, critics and biographers — engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks"; "the archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world") (David Hill Radcliffe, Virginia Tech U.)
Folger Shakespeare Library 
Ian's English Calendar (dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays") (Ian McInnes, Albion C., Albion, MI)
Interactive Early Modern Literary Studies (online supplement to the EMLS print-journal; includes scholarly works in progress, virtual seminars, forthcoming articles, links to online resources in the early modern field, and conference materials)
Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse (BCMSV) ("contains detailed information about the individual items of English verse contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts belonging to Leeds University Library") (Oliver Pickering)
A Local Habitation and a Name: Social Sites of Renaissance Lyrics (includes transcriptions and annotations of Renaissance lyrics, place descriptions based on historical research, fictive dialogues concerning the place, and related graphics and recordings) (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State U.)
Luminarium: Renaissance Pages (Aniina Jokinen)
16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Homepage of Anniina Jokinen's 16th Century Renaissance Literature Pages 
Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature 
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature: Background Information 
Early 17th-Century English Literature (1603-1660)
Homepage of Anniina Jokinen's 17th Century Renaissance Literature Pages  
Additional Sources for 17th-Century English Literature (Anniina Jokinen)
Essays and Articles in Early 17th-Century English Literature (Anniina Jokinen)
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century (searchable database, edited by Herbert J.C. Grierson)(batleby.com)
Online Renaissance Resources (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Primary Sources: Eyewitness Accounts of People and Events in Tudor England (selected sources, including letters, poems, and journals) (englishhistory.net)
Renaissance (article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sonnet Central: Renaissance Resources (Eric Blomquist)
Elizabethan Sonneteers 
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Sonnets 
U. Michigan Early Modern Colloquium 
Women Writers Project ("long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding") (Brown U.)
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Authors and Works
Anonymous Works and Ballads
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England (e-texts, within the Project Gutenberg site) (Robert Bell)
Shake Loose the Border (site devoted to the 16th-century Anglo-Scottish border, with emphasis on ballads and broadsides; numerous links to primary sources; within the Legends site) (Paula Katherine Marmor)
Joseph Sobran, The Mystery of Emaricdulfe (essay on the 1595 sonnet sequence Emaricdulfe, possibly authored by Shakespeare)
Gammer Gurton's Needle: Etext (hypertext version of Gammer Gurton's Needle) (Electronic Text Center, U. Viginia).
Pre-1600 English Ballads (project aimed at producing texts of ballads, along with sheet music) (Greg Lindall)
Sir Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon Sermones Fideles sive Interiora Rerum (printed 1638) (hypertext edition, in Latin, along with introduction, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
The New Atlantis (The Art Bin)
Shake-n-Bacon (extensive page of resources relating to the contention that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works) (Paul J. Dupuy, Jr.)
Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning (bibliographies, galleries, articles, and other resources on Bacon; with a special interest in Bacon's conjectural alternative identities - as Shakespeare, as the son of Elizabeth I) (Lawrence Gerald)
Sir Francis Bacon (Anniina Jokinen)
Barnabe Barnes Sonnets by Barnabe Barnes (Sonnet Central)
Nicholas Breton Selected Poems of Nicholas Breton (Representative Poetry Online page) (U. Toronto)
Sir Thomas Browne
The Sir Thomas Browne Homepage (James Eason, U. Chicago)
The Garden of Cyrus 
Hydriotaphia 
Samuel Johnson, Life of Brown (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths 
John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
The Holy War (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
International John Bunyan Society 
Pilgrim's Progress (U. Penn)
Pilgrim's Progress (Institute of Practical Bible Education: The Electronic Public Library)
Thomas Campion
Beauty Is But a Painted Hell (Steve Lindberg)
The Latin Poetry of Thomas Campion: A Hypertext Edition (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
Thomas Campion (Anniina Jokinen)
When To Her Lute Corrina Sings (Jan Billington)
Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew (U. Toronto)
Thomas Carew (Anniina Jokinen)
Elizabeth Cary
Elizabeth Cary Bibliography (U. Waterloo)
William M. Hamlin (Washington State U.) "Elizabeth Cary's Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason" (essay) (2003)
The Tragedy of Mariam Homepage (biographical and source information) (Rachel Williams, U. Georgia)
Charles Cotton "The Retirement" (transcription, glosssary, and an essay by Saunders on the Dove River) (Rebecca Saunders, East Tennessee State U.)
Abraham Cowley
Selected Works of Abraham Cowley (Anniina Jokinen, Luminarium)
Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive (Daniel Kinney, U. Virginia)
Richard Crashaw Selected Poetry of Richard Crashaw (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (Anniina Jokinen)
Selected Poems (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Sir William Davenant
Selected Poems by Sir William D'Avenant (provides biographical information and a link to Davenant's Preface to Gondibert, an Heroick Poem, 1651/1673) (U. Toronto)
Theatre Database Information Page for Sir William Davenant (biographical information for Sir William Davenant in the context of theater history) (Theatre Database)
John Davies Sir John Davies (bio and selections) (Anniina Jokinen)
John Davies of Hereford Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
John Donne
General Resources
John Donne Page (The Poetry Archives)
John Donne Page (Anniina Jokinen)
The John Donne Society (info about conferences, links, and more) (Montclair State U.)
Writings
Death's Duel (sermon) (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
Selected Poetry of John Donne (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (Anniina Jokinen)
Selected Poetry (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
William Drummond
Hampton Court: Andrew Marvell and William Drummond (poem transcriptions, plus audio, along with an essay on Hampton Court) (Linda Johnson, East Tennesse State U.)
William Drummond Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Edward Dyer Selected Poetry of Sir Edward Dyer (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (Anniina Jokinen)
Selected Poetry of Elizabeth I (U. Toronto)
George Etherege Selected Poetry of Sir George Etherege (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Florimène at the Court of Charles I ("an animated interactive exploration and reconstruction of Inigo Jones' great court masque. The Web version provides a sampling of the program, giving the reader a sense of the organization and content of the reconstruction") (John R. Wolcott)
Edward Forsett Pedantius (1581) (original Latin texts) (The Latin Library)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Fulke Greville (Anniina Jokinen)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Robert Greene Selected Poetry of Robert Greene (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Richard Hakluyt Discourse of Western Planting, 1584 (Hypertext version of Richard Hakluyt's 1584 text by AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History) (U. Kansas)
Thomas Hariot
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: An Archive Edition (Academic Affairs Library, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings (Harriot's drawings of his telescopic observations, 1609-1610) (Albert Van Helden)
Thomas Hariot (Anniina Jokinen)
William Harrison Description Of Elizabethan England (1577) (e-text of these works from Holinshed's Chronicles, within Fordham U.'s Internet Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
George Herbert
George Herbert (Anniina Jokinen)
Selected Poetry of George Herbert (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (Anniina Jokinen)
Robert Herrick Page (The Poetry Archives)
Selected Poetry (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Richard Hooker Homepage (bio and selections) (Anniina Jokinen)
John Hoskyns Selected Poetry of John Hoskyns (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Anniina Jokinen)
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (U. Toronto)
Sonnets by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Sonnet Central)
Ben Jonson
General Resources
Ben Jonson (Anniina Jokinen) 
Poetry & Drama
Criticism [Show]
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme [Show]
Panorama [Show]
Selected Poems (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Timber (U. Toronto)
Anne Killigrew Selected Poetry of Anne Killigrew (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Aemilia Lanyer
Aemilia Lanyer Page (includes biography and bibliography) (Kari Boyd McBride, U. Arizona)
Selected Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer (U. Toronto)
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (Anniina Jokinen)
Richard Lovelace Page (The Poetry Archives)
Selected Poetry of Richard Lovelace (U. Toronto)
John Lyly
John Lyly (Anniina Jokinen)
Selected Poetry of John Lyly (U. Toronto)
Richard Lynche Selected Poems of Richard Lynche. (Sonnet Central)
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe (Anniina Jokinen)
Peter Farey's Marlowe Page (links to full texts of plays, biographical information, and more) (Peter Farey)
The Knitting Circle: Christopher Marlowe (bio, bibliography, and some links) (South Bank U.)
Renaissance Attitudes Towards Faustus as a Magician (student project site, with links, articles, on the background to Faustus) (U. Georgia)
Christopher Marlowe Selected Poems Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
The Marlowe Society (bio, news, links)
Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell Homepage (e-texts) (The Poetry Archives)
Appleton House: Andrew Marvell (poem transcription, notes, and an essay on Appleton House) (Angela Caraway, East Tennessee State U.)
Hampton Court: Andrew Marvell and William Drummond (poem transcriptions, plus audio, along with an essay on Hampton Court) (Linda Johnson, East Tennesse State U.)
Selected Poems (U. Toronto)
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton Page (deep, well-designed page with full-text hypertext versions of Middleton's works) (Chris Cleary)
John Milton
General Resources
John Milton (Anniina Jokinen)
The Milton-L Home Page (Kevin J.T. Creamer) [Show]
Milton Page (The Poetry Archives)
Milton Quarterly 
Milton Reading Room (includes texts of works with annotations that appear in a small frame at the bottom) (Thomas Luxon and students, Dartmouth C.)
Milton Review (Roy Flannagan, Ohio U., & Kevin J.T. Creamer U.Richmond)
Criticism
Vincent Blasi (U. Virginia)  (National Humanities Center)
Daniel W. Doerksen (U. New Brunswick), "Milton and the Jacobean Church of England" (1995) (Early Modern Literary Studies)
John Spencer Hill (U. Ottawa) John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet.  (links to a hypertext edition of Hill's 1979 critical book on Milton's life and works) (Early Modern Literary Studies )
Fran Sendbuehler (U. Montreal)  (online version of an essay "presented in an abbreviated form at GEMSC, [Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies] at Rochester, NY, November 5, 1994")
Multimedia Resources
"The Iconography of Paradise Lost" (links to various illustrations of Paradise Lost) (George Klawitter, St. Edwards U.)
Milton Photos, 2004 (pictures taken in 2004 of parts of the City of London relevant to the life and study of John Milton) (Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth C.)
Poetry
"How soon hath Time, the Subtle Thief of Youth" (U. Toronto)
"I did but Prompt the Age to Quit their Clogs" (U. Toronto)
"Lycidias" (U. Toronto)
"Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint" (U. Toronto)
"On the Late Massacre in Piemont" (U. Toronto)
"On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (U. Toronto)
Paradise Lost [Show]
Paradise Regained [Show]
Selected Poetry of John Milton (U. Toronto)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
"To Cyriak Skinner" (U. Toronto)
A Local Habitation and a Name: Social Sites of Renaissance Lyrics (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State U.)
"To the Lord General Cromwell" (U. Toronto)
"When I Consider How my Light is Spent" (U. Toronto)
Prose
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Dartmouth College)(Milton Reading Room, Thomas Luxon)
Sir Thomas More
Homepage (Anniina Jokinen)
Thomas Nashe
Selected Poems (U. Toronto)
Thomas Nashe (Anniina Jokinen)
George Peele Selected Poetry of George Peele (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
George Puttenham The Arte of English Poesie  (hypertext, within the Electronic Text Center archive) (U. Virginia)
Francis Quarles Homepage (site devoted to texts and background of Quarles) (Anniina Jonkinen)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Selected Poetry (U. Toronto)
Sir Walter Ralegh (Anniina Jokinen)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Thomas Randolph Selected Poetry of Thomas Randolph (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Caesar Ripa
Adam McLean General Information on Caesar Ripa and Iconologia. Site presents information about the Iconologia in the context of the history of alchemy.
Iconologia; or, Moral Emblems Site maintained by The English Emblem Project (Penn State U.)
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset Selected Poetry of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Charles Sedley Selected Poetry of Sir Charles Sedley (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
William Shakespeare
General Resources
ArdenNet: The Critical Resource for Shakespeare Studies [Show]
Chadwyck-Healey: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (prospectus for CD-ROM resource)
The Ever Reader (online magazine of the Shakespeare Oxford Society)
Folger Shakespeare Library 
Shakespeare Page (The Poetry Archives)
Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock ("introductory resource for anyone who is interested in the nature of Elizabethan anti-semitism: both in its historical context and, in particular, how it is reflected and embodied in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice") (Grant Stirling,
Shakespeare Database Project (Germany)
Shakespeare Quarterly 
Shakespeare Web 
Shakespeare and the Book (Columbia U. Libraries Exhibition)
The Authorship Issue
Shake-n-Bacon (extensive page of resources relating to the contention that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works)
The Shakespeare Mystery [Show]
The Shakespeare Question (links, bibliographies, and other resources related to six "contenders for the authorship of Shakespeare's works, including Shakespeare, Oxford, Bacon, Marlowe, Rutland, and Derby") (R.W. Bivens-Tatum, Princeton U.)
The Shakespeare Authorship Page: Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare (Dave Kathman and Terry Ross)
Criticism
Are There Ciphers In Shakespeare? (1993) [Show]
Brian Arkins (U. College, Galway / Saint David's U. College, Lampeter), Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies (1995) (Classics Ireland)
Misc.
Cass Foster's "Sixty-Minute Shakespeare" Series (info on for-sale series of condensed texts of the plays designed for high-school instruction) (Five Star Publications, Inc.)
Elizabethan Insults (fashion your own Shakespearean insults) (John M Vinopal)
The Hamlet Machine A cultural hypertext for Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy.
Organizations & Programs
Richard III Society 
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (maintains the five houses in or near Stratford-upon-Avon directly connected with the dramatist and his family)
Shakespeare Institute Library (U. Birmingham)
Shakespeare Festivals
Bard on the Beach '95 (summer Shakespeare festival in Vancouver)
Shakespeare Festival Pages (a lsit of list of Shakespeare festival pages and other sites) (Robert Goldstein / David Zuhr, Orlando/UCF Shakespeare Festival)
Visual Resources
Catherine M.S. Alexander What Did Shakespeare Look Like? (essay including various images of Shakespeare, within the shakespeare.org site)
Shakespeare Image Gallery (page within the Holloway Pages, offering a number of related sites) (Clark J. Holloway)
Shakespeare Illustrated (Boydell Gallery and other historical illustrations of the bard) (Harry Rusche, Emory U.)
Writings
Complete Works (hypertext on MIT server)
The Julius Caesar Site (Tufts U. / Perseus Project)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (hypertext, annotated) (J.B. Siedlecki, U. North British Columbia)
Scholarly Editions of Shakespeare for the Internet (under-construction archive of modern newly-edited, annotated, refereed versions "linked to electronic representations of the original quartos and Folio," including "supporting source material, a critical survey, a history of performance . . . lin
Search Engine for Collected Works (Matty Farrow, U. Sydney, Australia)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Sonnets (Index) 
TACTWeb Demo: Query Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (demo of the Web interface that allows a user to query a TACT text database) (John Bradley & Geoffrey Rockwell)
Twelfth Night (CMU server)
U. Victoria English Dept.'s Shakespeare Texts (designed for an online independent studies course, these texts are public domain Shakespeare plays available elsewhere on the net but here arranged to correspond to the lineation in the Signet Shakespeare editions; line numbers have been added)
Sir Philip Sidney
Defence of Poesie (hypertext version of British Museum copy of Ponsonby edition, 1595)
Selected Poetry (U. Toronto)
Sir Philip Sidney (Anniina Jokinen)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
John Skelton
Homepage (Anniina Jokinen)
John Skelton Selected Poetry of John Skelton (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
Edmund Spenser
General Resources
Edmund Spenser (Anniina Jokinen)
Edmund Spenser Home Page (English Dept., Cambridge U.)
English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition (large-scale archive of literary texts in the era of Spenser, including primary texts, biography, and criticism; "the 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers — imitators and emulators, critics and biographers — engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks"; "the archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world") (David Hill Radcliffe, Virginia Tech U.)
Spenser Page (The Poetry Archives)
The Spenserian Stanza (brief information) (Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry, Emory U.)
Criticism
Dino Felluga (Stanford U.), Modern Theoretical Discourses (pedagogically-oriented set of explanations, definitions, and questions that applies concepts in contemporary literary theory to two sonnets from Spenser's Amoretti; covers New Historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and psychoanalysis)
Moral Fiction In Milton And Spenser [Show]
Poetry
The Faerie Queene (Richard Bear) (HTML version of FQ; under construction)
Selected Poetry (U. Toronto) 
Shepheardes Calender Hypertext Edition (text description of work-in-progress) (John Tolva)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
Edmund Spenser, A vewe of the present state of Ireland ("a scholarly edition of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge MS 188/221... Includes an introduction, textual notes, collaborative interpretive notes, and an archive of supplementary materials"; within the CERES site) (Andrew Zurcher, Cambridge U.)
Sir John Suckling
Selected Poetry of Sir John Suckling (U. Toronto)
Sir John Suckling Page (The Poetry Archives)
Chidiock Tichborne and Anonymous "Verses of Praise, and Joy" and "Tichborne's Elegy," on the Tower of London (poems, audio, and an essay by Owens on dialogue)(Brad Owens, East Tennessee State U.)
Thomas Traherne Selected Poetry of Thomas Traherne (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
William Tyndale
The Tyndale New Testament ("only surviving textually complete copy of a print-run of 3,000 (possibly even 6,000) from the press of Peter Schoeffer in Worms") (British Library)
William Tyndale: Translator and Reformer (Tyndale Society)
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan Selected Poetry of Henry Vaughan (Representative Poetry Online) (U. Toronto)
George Wither
George Wither A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (compiled by the English Emblem Project (Penn State U.)
Representative Poetry Online Selected Poetry of George Wither (U. Toronto)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Selected Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (U. Toronto)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (Anniina Jokinen)
Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
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Cultural and Historical Contexts
Homepage of Elizabethan Accents (Ren Faire)
John Price, "Ancient Rome and English Renaissance Theatre" (considers the influence Ancient Rome exerted over the Renaissance theatre)
Jessica A. Browner, "Wrong Side of the River: London's Disreputable South Bank in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century" (1994) (Essays in History)
An Early Modern Holiday Calendar for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (Kristen McDermott, Central Michigan U.)
William Camden Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha (1615 and 1625) (hypertext edition, in Latin and in English, with the Bacon annotations, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
Early Modern English Source (organization homepage, with links to research resources page and to relevant scholarly events)
East India Company (National Computer Board, Singapore)
Emblem Books
Alciato's Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in Latin and English (William Barker, Mark Feltham, and Jean Guthrie, Memorial U. Newfoundland)
The English Emblem Book Project (large repository of emblem books; presents facismile pages, some clickable to to show the text associated with each emblem) (Penn State U.)
Glasgow Centre for Emblem Studies (Alison Adams, U. of Glasgow)
Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge U.) English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course (includes lessons, an extensive introduction, images, bibliography, and more; within Cambridge U.'s CERES site)
William Harrison Description Of Elizabethan England (1577) (e-text of these works from Holinshed's Chronicles, within Fordham U.'s Internet Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Raphael Holinshed The Historie of Scotland, conteining the beginning, increase, proceedings, acts and gouernement of the Scotish nation  (facsimile reproductions from the 1585 Denham print) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
A Local Habitation and a Name: Social Sites of Renaissance Lyrics (homepgae for site offering individual pages on lyrics, each page including texts, glossary, and information about locale and social setting) (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State U.)
Mary Rose Homeport (virtual exhibition of the recovery of a sunken Tudor-period English warship) (Mary Rose Trust)
Tudor and Elizabeth Portraits (images, bibliography, and links) (Edward Buehler)
The Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub ("looks at how inns, taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the present day") (Steven Earnshaw, Sheffield Hallam U., UK)
Richard III and Yorkist History Server
Richard III Society (many full-text, pedagogical, and other resources that serve as a general introduction to the late medieval and Renaissance period; includes literary texts) (Richard III Society, American Branch)
Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes (introductory essay, along with edited transcriptions of several statutes) (Maggie Pierce Secara)
Tudors (and Stuarts) Page (historical information, illustrations) (Welford and Wickham Primary School, Berkshire, England)
Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England ("Renaissance dying speeches, other documents, and images, as well as current articles" dealing with public execution) (created by Zachary Lesser, Columbia U.; now maintained by Charlie Mitchell)
Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography (David Wilson-Okamura)
The Virginia Colony
The First Virginia Charter, 1606 (Philip Schwarz/American Revolution HTML Project)
Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606 (W. B. Leemhuis/American Revolution HTML Project)
The Second Virginia Charter, 1609 (Philip Schwarz/American Revolution HTML Project)
The Third Virginia Charter, 1612 (Philip Schwarz/American Revolution HTML Project)
Homepage of Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Information (includes bibliographies of scholarly resources) (Kirsti S. Thomas, St. Martin's C.)
Witchcraft in Europe and America (free citation search in Cornell U. rare book collection of early Modern works in the literature of witchcraft and demonology; full texts by subscription only) (Primary Source Media)
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Criticism (for specific criticism, see under individual authors)
English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, His Contemporaries and the Representation of Italy (essays by Michael J. Redmond)
Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature 
Essays and Articles in Early 17th-Century English Literature (Anniina Jokinen)
David Hurley (U. York, UK), Essays on the English Renaissance (link to essays by Hurley on Francis Bacon & Machiavelli; Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare; Bacon's theory of the imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients)
Hypertext and the English Renaissance: Studies in Media Transformation (John Tolva)
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi and Teaching Projects (Women Writers Project, Brown U.)
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Journals (Renaissance Literature)
Cahiers Elisabethains 
Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar (journal with full-text articles and responses)
Early Modern Literary Studies 1500-1700 
The Ever Reader (online magazine of the Shakespeare Oxford Society)
Milton Quarterly 
Milton Review (Roy Flannagan, Ohio U., & Kevin J.T. Creamer U.Richmond)
Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies (U. of Hull)
Shakespeare Quarterly 
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Listservs & Newsgroups (Renaissance Literature)
FICINO ("international electronic seminar and bulletin board for the circulation and exchange of information about the Renaissance and Reformation and the decades which precede and follow") (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies)
Milton-L Home Page 
Renaissance Listservs (from UPenn listserv index) (also see TILE.NET under General English Literature Resources above)
Renaissance Forum: E-Mail Information List 
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Conferences (Renaissance Literature)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
The Renaissance Computer (June 19-20, 1998, St. Andrews U., Scotland) 
Second Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society, Sept. 1-3, 1998, U. Stirling, Scotland 
Index of the Literature of the English Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century (links to texts, arranged by author) (Roger Blackwell Bailey, San Antonio C.)


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