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Early Modern Studies Links

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING EARLY MODERN LITERATURE

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES)

includes an online course on English handwriting as well as links to journals, databases, and electronic texts

McGill University's Shakespeare Resources

links to Shakespeare festivals, electronic texts and journals, and related Shakespeare sites

University of Toronto's Records of Early English Drama (REED)

links from the project to resources for dance, music, and theater

Early Modern English Dictionaries Database

restricted to academic researchers and librarians; registration required for access

Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660

useful particularly for researching less popular playwrights

Luminarium's Medieval and Renaissance Literature

biographical information, quotations, full-text resources, and other related materials on authors from the Middle Ages through the 17th Century

 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING EARLY MODERN LIFE AND TIMES

Shakespeare's Life and Times

From the University of Victoria, Canada on the writer and his world. Details on Shakespeare's biography as well as women writers, civil courts, prisons, food, life at court and much more.

Early Modern Resources

Lists of electronic resources including everything from The Country House Database to the Bodleian's online collection of broadside ballads. Searchable by period, region, or topic.

Life in Elizabethan England

A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603. An entertaining site less academic more for writers and re-enacters but containing the intriguing details of everyday life.

LINKS TO CENTERS, LIBRARIES AND RELATED SOURCES FOR RESEARCHERS

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University

Folger Shakespeare Library

Newberry Library

The Globe Theatre

Reformation Studies Institute at St. Andrews