Literature

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.

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.

Canadian novelist, children's writer, short story author. Book excerpts and author biography.

Based in British Columbia. Biography, publications, news, upcoming readings, and excerpts from her books.

Very short synopses from his novels.

Born in Trinidad and now living in Canada, is the author of five novels and short story collections.

Biography and selected stories from some of her published works.

Collection of stories by the Ottawa-based writer.

Explores the musical dimension of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait, Joyce's poems, and Finnegans Wake, with essays on the literary context of the music and sound clips of songs.

Run by University College Dublin. One of the foremost gatherings in the Joycean calendar.