Shakespearean Links

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Links related to Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists

Societies, Journals, Blogs, Groups, Mailing Lists, Conferences

Shakespeare Association of America (hosts an annual conference, seminars, etc.)
Shakesper (discussion list/ RSS feed)
British Shakespeare Association - Web site has a nice section of news
International Shakespeare Association
Journals
- English Literary Renaissance (contains annual review of recent scholarship)
- Studies in English Literature (through Project MUSE; contains annual review of recent scholarship)
- Early Modern Literary Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
- Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Shakespeare - Journal started by Taylor and Francis in 2005
- Shakespeare Bulletin - Specializing in performance and film criticism
- Shakespeare Magazine is aimed at teachers. News on the Rialto has updates on theatre, film, conferences, web sites, etc.
  - News on the Rialto Blog - The magazine is on hiatus, but you can still read the blog
- Shakespeare Newsletter - Published by Iona College
- Shakespeare Quarterly - Published by the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Shakespeare Studies - Published annually by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Shakespeare Survey - Published annually by Cambridge University Press
  - Online editions
- Upstart Crow- Published by Clemson University
Conferences: Call for papers and other opportunities
- Renaissance CFP
- Everything Early Modern Women
- Society for the study of Early Modern Women sponsored sessions
- Early Modern News
Blogs
- Blogging Shakespeare: Embracing Shakespearean Conversation in a digital age
- Tympan and Frisket: Early Modern Print Culture, Popular Culture, and ephemera
- Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog

Bibliographical Tools discussed in class

Periodical searches
- WCU Library's Literature databases
- MLA International Bibliography (ABELL integrated into it)
- WorldCat (Union Catalog)
- British Library Integrated Catalog (Print and Manuscript catalogs)
- Project Muse (current issues of scholarly journals)
- JSTOR (older issues of scholarly journals)
- Iter Gateway to Middle Ages and Renaissance (subscriptions can be purchased by individuals)
- Records of Early English Drama (REED)
- World Shakespeare Bibliography (great resource for works published from 1968-2006; supposed to be free for WCU students)
Bibliographies and reviews (limited to WCU-owned resources)
- Year's Work in English Studies (shows current trends)
- English Short Title Catalog (searchable online database of every title published between 1473 and 1800)
- Early Modern Drama Database (1574-1648) Searable by year, playwright, play, company, playhouse, etc.
- Early Modern Women Online: an annotated bibliography
- Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Centurt: An Annotated Bibliography (to 1990) (at ASU)
- Studies in English Literature (through Project MUSE; contains annual review of recent scholarship)
- World Shakespeare Bibliography (great resource for works published from 1968-2006; supposed to be free for WCU students)
Web sites (scholarly gateways)
- Center for Early Modern Studies
- Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
- Early Modern Hub (includes resources, blogging, and news)
- Voice of the Shuttle (many useful links)
Online courses
- English handwriting 1500-1700: An online course
- English Literature in Context tutorials
General Electronic Text archives
- Primary Sources: Early Modern Britain 15th to 18th centuries
- Renascence editions (texts from 1477 to 1799)
- Digital Scriptorium (medieval and renaissance manuscript images)
- Manuscriptorium.com--wonderful collection of facsimiles of great old books
- Corsair: Images from Medieval manuscripts (searchable)
- Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library
- University of Oxford Text archive
- Perseus Renaissance Materials
- Early Modern Literary Studies Electronic Texts
- Archive.org: Great site to find out of print books from Shakespeare's time
- British History online (searchable primary and secondary texts relating to medieval through modern history; includes acts of the Privy Council, sortable by period, region, and more).
Specialized Electronic Text Archives
- British Printed Images to 1700
- Early English Books online (available through WCU libraries)
  - EEBO Text Creation Partnership (transcriptions of EEBO works at U. Michigan)
- Early Modern books (1500 to 1600)online (U Penn)
- Database of Early English Playbooks An easy-to-use and highly customizable search engine of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660, DEEP provides a wealth of information about the original playbooks, their title-pages, paratextual matter, advertising features, bibliographic details, and theatrical backgrounds.
- Emblems
  - English emblem book project
  - Gordon Collection of emblem books
  - Open emblem portal
  - Philomythie, or, Philomythologie [electronic resource-WCU only] : wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely.
  - Topsell's Animals (U of Houston exhibit)
  - Dutch Emblems
  - Glasgow Emblem Site
- Broadsides and libels
Other specialized archives
- Henslowe/Alleyn Project (has images of all Philip Henslowe's (Admiral's/ Prince Henry's Men entrepreneur) and Edward Alleyn's (lead actor and shareholder) diaries, contracts, correspondence, etc.)
- Thomas Middleton (the Oxford Project--accompanies 2010 edition of collected works)
- 1544 Cosmographia by Munster
- Parliament Roles of Medieval England
- The Parnassus Plays (refers to Shakespeare)
- Rare bookroom (early texts of Shakespeare, Ben Franklin, herbals and zoological studies, etc.)
- Bible--early editions
- Translation: Renaissance Cultural Crossroads is an annotated searchable list of texts translated out of and into English before 1641
- Cornell Witchcraft Collection

Links useful for Imagery Analysis and Class assignments

Shakespeare's grammar and rhetoric (Bardweb)
Scanning shakespeare's verse (examples) (Bardweb(
Shakespeare's pronunciation (Internet Shakespeare editions)
Shakespeare's imagery (metaphors and similes) (shakespeare online)

Reference

Records of Early English Drama at Toronto
DEEP (Database of Early English Playbooks)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) good for etymologies
Elizabethan holidays
Names from Greek and Roman mythology
Shakespeare Concordance: Look up any word to see where and often Shakepeare uses it
Commonest words in plays (Wolfram Alpha) and other searches
Shakespeasre's Words (Also has themes and topics such as allusions and references to historical persons)
Shakespeare Lexicon: Look up the meaning of any word or phrase
Early Modern Chronology (from the 1400s)
Biographical index to drama before 1660
Holinshed Project (historian who was a major source for Shakespeare)
Origins.net (a subscription site for ancestry research, but contans good information about about English archives and records)
British History online (largest collection of primary sources relating to English history; includes letters, diaries, proceedings, ambassador's papers, and lots more)
- Acts of the Privy Council
- Aldermen of the City of London
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic (Edward,Mary, Elizabeth)
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic (first years of James I to 1610; other years available by subscription)
- Calendar of State papers foreign (Edward VI through 1589)
- Calendar of State Papers Ireland (1586-1601)
- Calendar of State Papers, Scotland (1547-88)
- Calendar of State Papers, Spain (reign of Elizabeth)
- Calendar of State Papers, Venice
- Calendar of State Papers Colonial, 1513-1616
- Calendar of State Papers of Robert Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury
- Henry VIII Letters and papers
- House of Commons Journal
- Some Livery Company Records
- Medical Practioners' Records 1550-1640
- Parliamentary Debates of Elizabeth 1 1559-1601
- Port and Trade book for early Elizabethan London
- Property holding in London until 1666
- Spanish Company records, 1604-6
- Stowe's Survey of London and London Chronicles (Henry VIII thru Mary I)
- Treasury papers
- Trinity House transactions 1609-35 (in charge of River Thames traffic)
Connected Histories (brings together a range of searchable early modern records)

General/ Meta sites

Bardweb (includes many resources and this great bibliography, which could benefit from subheadings)
Records of Early English Drama at Toronto
British History online (searchable primary and secondary texts relating to medieval through modern history; includes acts of the Privy Council, sortable by period, region, and more).
Eurodocs records from 1486-1688 (primary sources for English history)
- Tudorhistory.org
Luminarium.org (one of the best sites for medieval, early modern, and restoration texts and authors)
Earlymodernweb.org (a great resource with links to primary sources as well as medical tracts, laws, and a host of other subjects)
Archive.org: Great site to find out of print books from Shakespeare's time
ERIC (English Renaissance in Context)
World Shakespeare Library (great resource for works published from 1968-2006; costs $60 annually)
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare Resource Center
Shakespeare Online
Folger Shakespeare Library
PlayShakespeare
The British Monarchs
The British Church
In Search of Shakespeare (PBS site has links to existing documents about WS's life and a list of the "players"
Renaissance Interactive
The Shakespeare Post (news about Shakespeare, including media releases, scholarship, etc.)

Miscellaneous Topics

Animals
- Emblems/ Fables:
  - Philomythie, or, Philomythologie [electronic resource-WCU only] : wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely.
Art, Humanism, Music
- English Renaissance MIDIs
- Classical MIDI : Renaissance - Raborn & Winters
- Early Music Midi Files - Curtis Clark
- Mulliner Book MIDI files - David Cooke
- English Baroque MIDI files - David Cooke
- Classical MIDI Archive: Composers born before the 17th century - Pierre R. Schwob
- English Baroque music (midis )
Authorship Question
- Shakespeare Fellowships Shakespeare Authorship site
- Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: Intro to authorship question
Bodies:
- Helkiah Crooke: Micocosmographia, or A Description of the Body of Man
Dress, Food, Everyday Life
- Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws
- History of Costume
- Tudor Dress: A Portfolio of Images
- Virtual Renaissance Town
- Illustrated: Renaissance Backgrounds
British History
- The British Monarchs
- The British Church
- The wars of the roses
Government
- Parliamentary rolls of Medieval England
Holidays
- Elizabethan holidays
- Liturgical calendar (figures the dates for any year you input)
Images
- British printed images to 1700
- Bodleian Broadside ballads
Kingship, Patronage, and Succession
- Stuart succession project (still in formative stages)
  - First act of successon (1534) (rejects Mary in favor of Elizabeth)
    - 1534 Oath of allegiance (subjects compelled to accept succession act, above)
  - Second act of succession
  - Third act of succession
- Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy (1534; names him head of church of England)
- Machiavellli's The Prince

Sonnet 20 (Earl of Southampton)
Florimène at the Court of Charles I: the Court Masque - UWashington
Triumphs, Progresses, Pageants, Festivals and Processionals

Elizabeth

Gender, Sex, and Marriage

The Hammer for Witches (and here's a nice illustrated online edition)
the Castlehaven scandal and 17th c. "libels"
Female anatomy acc. to the 16th century
Femina: Medieval Women's Index
Education of Girls during Shakespeare's Time
Life of Women in Tudor England
Women's Rights in 17th century England
Education of Women: Norton
Gallery of Images: Women with Books
Norton: Women's Public Speech

James

Luminarium's James I page

Law
- Selden Society publications (this group publishes early modern trial transcripts)
Maps
- Print map of Elizabethan london
- Map of Elizabethan London
  - Detail: Bankside (South of Thames)
Popular culture
- Renaissance popular culture (a site created by Duke students)
Pronunciation in Shakespeare's Time
- Some recordings (Sonnets and116, opening to R&J, and excerpt from T&C)
- Paulmeier.com
  - Original pronuciaton with embedded sounds
Race and Otherness
- Martin Luther on "the jews"
- Shakespeare' Colors: An article about race in WS's plays
- Jonson's Masque of Blackness
- Gary Taylor on whiteness and blackness
Religion
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Guild Chapel
  - wall paintings
Rhetoric
- Peacham,Henry: Garden of Eloquence
Science and the Marvelous
- Astrology
  - Simon Forman and Richard Napier: The Casebooks Project
  - Oxford Dictionary of Natonal Biography entry: Forman
- Wonder Cabinet of 1599 in Naples
- Giambattista della Porta's "Natural Magick", 1584
- 16th Century Science - UTexas Students
- The Medieval Universe - UVictoria
- Renaissance Science and Health - Maggie Pierce Secara
- The Galileo Project - Rice University
- Elizabethan Cosmology - Bruce P. Hayden
- Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist - Museum of Science, Boston
- Alchemy Virtual Library
- Universities in the Renaissance - University of Northern British Columbia
- Renaissance Science
- 17th c. prose style
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Topsell's The History of four-footed Beasts and Serpents
- Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia (or History of Vulgar Errors)
- A Thousand Notable Things (Thomas Lupton, 1579) and A Century of Inventions (Marquis of Worcester, 1655)
- Medieval Bestiary
- Hugh of Fouilloy's Medieval Book of Birds
- Munster's 1544 Cosmographia
- Prodigy books
  - Schenck von Granfenberg's Memorable Monsters
  - Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia
  - Monsters
  - Munster's 1544 Cosmographia
- Trade
  - Trade in the Renaissance

Shakespeare's Sources

Small Latin and Less Greek:T.W. Baldwin's searchable book about Shakespeare's education
Latin and Greek sources
Holinshed's Chronicles
Shakespeare's Holinshed: Chronicles and History plays compared
Some sources for individual plays:
- Henry V
  - Famous Victories of Henry V (1598)
  - Daniel -- Civil Wars (1598)
  - Fabyan: New Chronicles of England and France
  - Edward Hall's Union of Lancaster and York
Brief essays on the sources used for each play
Some links to primary texts
Plays in order (according to Oxford/ Norton) with sources
Commedia del arte

Shakespeare's Texts

Some tutorials on textual issues: The English Renaissance in Context
Issues with Original Text
- Shakespeare in Quarto at the British Library(allows you to compare different quarto texts)
- Shakespeare Quartos at the Bodlein Library, Oxford
- Facsimile of the First Folio (linked by play: Internet Shakespeare Editions
- Texts of the First Folio (and the texts that were left out)
- Chronology of Plays
- Hamlet Works (includes alternate texts, amazing search engine that allows you to look for commentary and actors, and just about everything else you need to know about Hamlet)
- Plays organized by degree of difference between folio and quarto (if any)
- Shakespeare's Canon and Chronology from William Shakespeare: A textual companion
- Shakespeare's sonnets: page through a 1609 edition of the poems at the Bodlein Library, Oxford
- Shakespeare's poems: a 1640 edition at the Warnock library, London
Online texts
- MIT's Complete Works
- Bartleby's online texts (based on 1914 Oxford edition)
- Shakespeare resources (mostly available only at UVA's Etext center)
- Open Source Shakespeare (intersting ways to search and compare texts; uses 1864 Globe edition)
Shakespeare's Language
- Shakespeare's coinages and phrases
  - A project on coinages done by students at Green Mountain Christian School (or Central School)
- Glossary (from AbsoluteShakspeare.com)
- Ian McKellen on blank verse
- scanning and variation
- Shakespeare's Editors
- Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare

Criticism Links

Shakespeare bibliographies (my undergraduates did these a few years ago)

Theater and Performance Links

Global Performance Archive (contains video of performances all over the world)
Shakespeare's theatre (links on music, dance, other production values)
Shakespeare Festivals
A lecture on Elizabethan theatre, including Shakespeare, by Thomas Larque
Specific theatres
- Elizabethan map with theatres (interactive)
- Illustrations of theatres (Shakespeare's Life and Times)
- The Globe
  - drawing of interior of Globe
  - exterior of Globe
  - Shakespeare's globe (staging & performance links)
  - Staging at the Globe
- Blackfriars Theater
- Swan Theatre in 1596
Costume
- Sumptuary Laws
Censorship
- Isle of Dogs (a controversial play that created a problem with censorship)
Actors
- In Search of Shakespeare: the Players (political and biographical figures)
- Robert Armin the comedian
  - Donald Sutherland in Make em Laugh
  - Shakespeare's actors

Genre and Plays

History, 2nd Tetralogy, and Henry IV
- The wars of the roses
- Henry IV in quarto
- My notes on Henry IV
- Lord of Misrule (wikipedia entry)
- Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech
- Andrews' Sermon at Richmond
- Isle of Dogs
  - Swan Theatre in 1596
- Map of Elizabethan London
  - Detail: Bankside (South of Thames)
- Quarto of Henry V
- Portrait in Whitehall of Edward VI (anamorphic)
- Jack Cade's rebellion (from Henry VI)
Comedy
- Commedia del arte
- The jig
- Kemp's jig (music) written by himself..
Tragedy
- Hamlet Works (includes alternate texts, amazing search engine that allows you to look for commentary and actors, and just about everything else you need to know about Hamlet)
Tragicomedy or Romance
- Masque Design
- Fountain designs by an associate of Jones
- Masque ballet
- Masque Guided Tour
- Clips of a recreated masque
- Ben Jonson Masque Costumes
- A PowerPoint overview
- Tempest 3.3 Antimasquers
- Tempest 4.1 Iris and Ceres (masquers)
- Caliban's Antimasque (by Kevin Pask)
- Inigo Jones
  - Queens House Greenwich
  - Banqueting House Whitehall (Interior Shot) and Another interior Shot
  - Marlborough House Chapel
  - Covent Garden Chapel
  - Bridge in Wales
  - Spiral Staircase and Tulip Staircase
  - Stage design for Florime
  - Set design for House of Fame
- Musical Analogies
  - Beyond the sea video
  - Mama Mia video
  - American in Paris finale
- Renaissance Music Composed for Shakespeare
  - Morley's It was a lover and his lass (w. male singers)
  - Morley's April is in my mistress' face

Teaching Links

Globe Theater's Playing Shakespeare Links
Folger Teaching Resources (includes lesson plans, recordings, books, etc.)
Hamlet on the Ramparts (all kinds of links and teaching resources associated with Hamlet's first encounter with the ghost)
Shakespeare in the Classroom

Diversions

Shakespearean Insult Generator
Gender Genie
3 minute Hamlet (fixed)
- text
- youtube
- Animaniacs do Yorick and MSND
Beatles do MSND
Stephen Greenblatt on Colbert Report

Presentations

Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 19-aug-20