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by Laurie Osborne.
Scene-indexed HTML of the complete works. Search feature and biographical information.
Resources include lesson plans and study guides.
Features comedy, history, tragedy and poetry.
Explore the fascinating and sometimes strange life of Francis Bacon and read his "Essays."
Electronic edition.
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.
Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
Sermons, poems, and Devotions. Downloads in PDF, HTML, or plain text.
Yumiko Yamada suggests that while many studies of Cervantes make connections to Shakespeare, the connection to Jonson deserves more critical attention.
An essay by Kathleen A. Prendergrast on Jonson's changing attitudes towards his fellow playwrights, the theater as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist.
Online publication A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale.
Sven Grzebeta's analysis of Hornby's books as "pop literature."
Benjamin Slade's critical edition of Beowulf, together with a facing-page translation, explanatory notes, glossary, supplemental texts and translations, background material, and links.
Complete text of Beowulf as it appears in the Friedrich Klaeber edition. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Translation by Clarence Griffin Child.
Each line of the Old English text is interleaved with a corresponding line from Francis B Gummere's modern English translation
Translation by Francis B. Gummere. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Old English poem in which each Latin verse of the psalm is followed by an Old English paraphrase.
Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Craig Williamson's introduction provides extensive background information organized into eight topical divisions.
Old English texts of Riddles 45, 76, 25, 23, and 27. Includes Modern English translations by Craig Williamson, textual notes, and commentaries.
Old English texts of Riddles 5, 8, 29, 30a, 35, and 46. Each word in each text is linked to a modern English definition.
Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
Electronic edition by Tim Romano. Includes images of the folios, transcription of the Old English text, glossary, introduction, modern English translation, and commentary.
Modern English translation of the Latin version. By Ann E. Watkins.
Lengthy biography produced by the magazine Orthodox England. Gives a detailed account of Alfred's life and achievements.
Excerpt from the Old English text (years 754-755). Each word is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.
A list of names and topics in the Chronicle. The entry for each item includes a link to the year or years in which the item appears in the James Ingram translation. From the Online Medieval and Classical Library.
The Joseph H. Stodder review, "Three Apocryphal Plays in Los Angeles."
Selection of articles on the authorship question.
William Stanley's environment is used to build a case for authorship of Shakespeare's works.
Includes discussion, teacher's guide, web resources and a related report.
A computer-aided analysis of the commonalities of style in de Vere and Shakespeare.
Peter Morton analyzes Andrew Field's The Lost Chronicle of Edward de Vere (1990), and Absent Thee from Felicity (1975), by Rhoda Henry Messner.
Analyzes the anti-Stratfordian position that William Shakespeare was too prosperous, contented and bourgeois a figure ever to have written poems like Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
A listing of book and play titles derived from the words of William Shakespeare.
Gary Kuchar does not believe that adequate attention has been paid to the rhetorical and intertextual elements that work to effect a reader's frustration.
Elizabeth Burow-Flak reviews the Cynthia Lewis book.
Its coverage is exhaustive up to 1999, by José Ramón Díaz-Fernández.
Excerpt from the Old English text. Each word is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.
Information on Shelley, Frankenstein and the Gothic period.
Complete text.
In modern English indexed by theme and topic.
Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text, summary, author information, and a search feature.
Scene-indexed and searchable.
Scene-indexed and searchable.
Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text. Search feature, author information, and summary.