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English
Renaissance in Context (ERIC)
The Furness Shakespeare Collection at the University
of Pennsylvania offers digital reproductions of various editions of the
works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and dozens of others.
The site also offers a set of tutorials for studying Shakespeare in a
historical context.
Luminarium:
16th-Century Renaissance English Literature
This site on Shakespeare and the Renaissance, built
by Anniina Jokinen, offers information and critical essays on several
genres, as well as biographies of individual authors.
Shakespeare
and the Renaissance
Canada's University of Victoria provides links to
a wide variety of online Renaissance resources, particularly in the area
of Shakespeare studies.
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
Terry Gray of Palomar College created this thorough,
annotated guide to the internet's scholarly offerings on Shakespeare and
his contemporaries.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century
Part of the Voice of the Shuttle site run by Alan
Liu, this page provides links to a variety of journals, criticism, newsgroups,
and listservs.
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Renaissance
Electronic Texts
The University of Toronto offers a searchable archive
of the full text of several English Renaissance books and manuscripts,
as well as links to other sites.
Perseus
Collection: Renaissance
Part of the Perseus Project at Tufts University,
this contains a collection of works by Hakluyt, James I, Bacon, and Sidney,
as well the complete works of Marlowe and Shakespeare. A few secondary
sources are also available.
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The
Elizabethan World Picture
Although Eugene Tillyard's interpretation of the
Elizabethan period is now often seen as overly simplistic, this remains
a classic and useful text for understanding English Renaissance ideas
and culture.
The
First Elizabeth
Carrolly Erickson's biography
of Elizabeth I provides useful background for readers of the literature
written during her reign.
The
Literature of Renaissance England
This anthology, edited by
John Hollander and Frank Kermode, is an excellent introduction to the
major works of the period.
Renaissance
Self-Fashioning
Stephen
Greenblatt's classic work considers selfhood and culture in the work of
Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, Tyndall, and Wyatt.
William
Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
Samuel
Schoenbaum's comprehensive and scholarly biography of Shakespeare includes
facsimile reproductions of several documents from the period.
Women,
"Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period
This
anthology, edited by Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, offers interdisciplinary
perspectives on race and gender in Renaissance literature.
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