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A survey from Caedmon to contemporary work, organised by period and genre.
A refereed journal in Early Modern English literary and historical scholarship, with all articles from March 1996 to 2004.
Synopses of major plays. From Professor An Sonjae of Sogang University, Seoul.
Offers news related to Old English, a dictionary, and an annotated list of links to Old English texts, translations, and online resources.
Provides Old English texts and modern English translations of poems and prose works with apocalyptic themes.
Index of resources related to Victorian literature. Includes separate sections for Elizabeth Gaskell, the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Dickens.
British Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose texts in PDF format. Authors include Arnold, Carlyle, Froude, Newman, Pater, and Wilde.
Includes biography and works.
1885 essay on the Elizabethan sonnet.
Includes links to online texts, biographical and bibliographical information, and links to related resources on the internet.
Images of artwork and text from a 1642 edition of Religio Medici. From Glasgow University Library Special Collections.
Compares Cary's play to its source, Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews.
Geraldine Wagner argues that Cavendish "considered textuality a means to subjectivity: one in which there is . . . no sovereign head, but many multi-bodied, competing loci of potential agency."
An excerpt from Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed (1621).
Article on the author's relationship with his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osborne, in the context of Aesthetic Realism.
Essays on techniques and themes in Thackeray's writing, as well as a biography and information on his Victorian context.
Biography and works of the Victorian poet.
Personal website of the internationally acclaimed poet, critic and author.
A review of the novel, with an account of a rally of homage to its author in Liverpool, 1977. [On Socialistworld.net]
Hyperlinked biography of the author, from Wikipedia.
Detailed biography of Radcliffe, by Rictor Norton.
Middle English text with two parallel modern English translations.
Modern English translation. Also includes an introduction, notes, and bibliography.
Displays Old English, Middle English, and Modern English versions of each verse.in Luke 2:1-19.
The authoritative dictionary of Middle English words.
Includes links to online texts, biographies, essays, articles, and other web resources.
Modern English translation by Bill Stanton together with Middle English text.
Sound recording of lines 64-125 (life in Hrothgar's hall). The recording is accompanied by the Old English text and textual notes.
Section of one page showing the Latin text of Luke 23:27-34 and the Old English gloss of this text. Following this image are a transcription of both the Latin text and the Old English gloss and a Modern English translation of the Latin text.
"An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary" by Joseph Bosworth, edited and enlarged by T. N. Toller. Each page of the main volume and supplement volume is available in HTML, TIFF, and PNG formats.
A list of some 500 Old English words which can be regarded as a literary core vocabulary. Each word is followed by its part of speech and its modern English definition.
Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At University of Calgary.
Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Modern English translation. Includes analysis and interpretation of the poem.
Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
Excerpt from Old English text, with words hot-linked to glossary.
Contains online resources for the study of Anglo-Saxon charters. Work in progress.
Andrew Rabin's student edition of five Old English lawsuits concerning women. Includes detailed introduction, notes, and glossary.
The complete dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, with casting grids and graphs for scene selection and analysis.
Database of early modern lexicons and useful for reading Renaissance drama which does not have extensive glosses
A source for reliable, expertly edited and encoded Shakespeare texts based on the Folger Shakespeare editions in print.
Primary goal isdetermining who the Shakespeare writer was and exploring why he wrote anonymously and pseudonymously.
A Shakespeare quiz.
An academic organization promoting the study of the works of William Shakespeare.
A paper by Ian Lancashire of the Department of English University of Toronto.
Robert C. Evans reviews the Howard Erskine-Hill book.
Glen Mynott reviews the G.K. Hunter book.
Michael Scott reviews the Robert Shaughnessy book.