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Renaissance: continental authors and texts

Renaissance Dante in Print
This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library.

Descartes' Meditations
Three editions, in English, Latin, & French.

Erasmus
His philosphy, his travels, his work, and his house.


Renaissance: authors and texts

16th Century Resaissance English Literature(1485-1603)
Links to many writers, their works, and essays and articles.

Milton-L
An archive of the discussion list, as well as a collection of web resources for Miltonists.

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
In addition to offering full text versions of Marlowe's plays, poetry, translations and miscellaneous works, this site allows users to lay different editions of texts side by side to compare textual variants.

The Works of the Bard
Provides line numbers. Users can request that hits be surrounded by a specified number of lines to show the word in context.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Contents include the complete works as well as a Shakespeare discussion area, search of the complete works, Shakespeare resources, a chronological listing of plays, and an alphabetical listing.

Shakespeare Resource Center
Contains basic historical and biographical information, play synopses, and a well organized list of other Shakespeare links.

The Rape of the Lock Homepage
Includes links to bacground material on Pope, versions of the poem, illustrations, and annotations.

Edmund Spenser Home Page
Materials pertaining to the works and life of Edmund Spenser. Published by Renascence Editions at the University of Oregon.

Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
A hypermedia edition of the envoy, epistle, general argument, and "Januarye" eclogue.

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Lady Mary Wroth
Text of the sonnet sequence from Lady Mary Wroth's the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania [1621].


Renaissance: text collections

The English Poetry, Full Text Database
English Poetry includes 4,450 works by 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century. This database is a commercial product held by us under a licensing agreement with its publisher, Chadwyck-Healey. At the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 1,500 works by around 450 named and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century. This database is a commercial product held by us under a licensing agreement with Chadwyck-Healey. At the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

Luminarium
16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603).

Michigan Early Modern English materials
Search 50,000 records.

Renaissance Electronic Texts
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.

The Modern English Collection
The electronic text center at the University of Virginia.

The English Poetry, Full Text Database
English Poetry includes 4,450 works by 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century. This database is a commercial product held by us under a licensing agreement with its publisher, Chadwyck-Healey. At the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 1,500 works by around 450 named and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century. This database is a commercial product held by us under a licensing agreement with Chadwyck-Healey. At the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

Michigan Early Modern English materials
Search 50,000 records.

Renaissance Electronic Texts
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.

The Modern English Collection
The electronic text center at the University of Virginia.


Renaissance: textual references

Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature


Renaissance: related materials

Iter: the Bibliography of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700)
The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), by creating online bibliographies.

British Library Exhibitions

Early Modern Literary Studies
Journal on-line. Refereed journal which gathers and maintains links to the most useful and comprehensive Internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, and discussion groups.

Proper Elizabethan Accents
Meant for the faire worker, but suitable for the scholar...



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