Literature: Renaissance Era

Renaissance Literary Resources (Compiled by Jack Lynch, Univ. of Pennsylvania).

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html

This page contains links to all facets of the Renaissance including many representing authors of the time such as John Milton, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Thomas Middleton, and much on William Shakespeare.

Renaissance Electronic Texts (Ian Lancashire from the Univ. of Toronto)

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html

This source provides a series of "editions of Renaissance books and manuscripts (with critical introduction),transcriptions of basic texts, and supplementary studies, published on the Internet as a free resource for students of the period."

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

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

This site was designed "to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature."  Find biographical information, critical essays (including material from the Early Modern Literary Studies), student essays which are noted as such (avoid these for a college paper!), and links to other related sources.

VMI's Shakespeare & Renaissance Homepage (John Leland and Emily Miller)

http://academics.vmi.edu/english/VMIShake.html

Shakespeare is well represented here. There is a link to online databases and resources through VIVA which you can use if you are connecting from a computer on campus.

Renaissance & 17th Century  (Allan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749

This "metapage" provides organization of links to General Resources, Authors and Works, Cultural and Historical Contexts, Criticism, Listservs, etc.  Links have not been updated recently, but many are good enough to warrent this addition. 

Renaissance Literature   (Academic Info:  English Literature)

http://www.academicinfo.net/englitren.html

This Gateway leads to Web pages on English Literature of the Renaissance.  Many sites above will also be found here, but there are always new ones to look for.

History of the Crusades:  The Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries  (University of Wisconsin History Collection)

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=header&id=History.CrusThree&isize=M

Life in Elizabethan England:  A Compendium of Knowledge 1588 - 1603, 8th ed. (Maggie Secara)

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html

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