Lexicons of Early Modern EnglishThis link opens in a new windowLexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.
Oxford Bibliographies - Renaissance and ReformationThis link opens in a new windowThis resource offers annotated bibliographies and research guides on the Renaissance and Reformation. It approaches the period from the 14th through 17th centuries through a combination of several disciplines including history, the arts, and literature.
The Routledge guide to William ShakespeareOffers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans
British Literary Manuscripts Online--Medieval and RenaissanceBritish Literary Manuscripts Online
presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable.
JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowJSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
MLA International BibliographyThis link opens in a new windowIndex to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
Early English Books Online [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowFrom the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. Allows for exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
Early English Books Online: Text Partnership [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowThe Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files. In combination, the text and image editions of these works provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources [Full Text]This link opens in a new windowA collection of digitized editions of texts concerning economic, political, legal, and ecclesiastical history, such as treasury accounts, chronicles, papal registers, etc. Most are from England, Ireland, and Scotland, although some are from Milan and the New World.
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the PresentThis link opens in a new windowOrlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present includes biographical and writing career entries on British women writers, selected non-British or international women writers, and selected British and international men. Also includes dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts).
State Papers OnlineThis link opens in a new windowState Papers Online, 1509-1714 is online resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe. The collection creates a new backbone for research and teaching in politics, government, social economic and religious history. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.
Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640)This link opens in a new windowThe Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 has evolved into a still-growing list of scholarship about 738 recovered writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical. It identifies many hitherto unknown writers, including among them not only already familiar figures, but also women refugees such as the recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators, and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
Oxford Shakespeare [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowOnline version of the 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare which ranks among the most authoritative published this century. The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse constitute the literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
World Shakespeare Bibliography [Selected Articles in Full Text]This link opens in a new windowProvides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1968 and early 2003. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 92 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The database is updated at regular intervals. Over the course of a year, coverage will move forward at least one year and backwards at least three years.
Electronic EnlightenmentThis link opens in a new windowElectronic Enlightenment (EE) offers access to the extensive correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
Grand TourThis link opens in a new windowThe Grand Tour is a digital collection of accounts of the English abroad c1550-1850. This collection includes letters, diaries and journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches, and architectural drawings and maps. These cover topics including daily life in the eighteenth century, European political and religious life, British diplomacy, life at court, and social customs on the Continent. There is a wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Rome, Florence, and Geneva, including written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning.
OSU's Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesThe Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary center in the College of Arts and Sciences dedicated to the study of history, culture, society, technology, and the arts from late Antiquity to the early modern era.
Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe Folger Shakespeare Library has the world's largest collection of materials relating to Shakespeare and his works, from the 16th century to the present day, as well as a world-renowned collection of books, manuscripts, and prints from Renaissance Europe.
Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive (MIT)Welcome
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.
The Shakespeare Quartos ArchiveThe Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.
The University of Oxford is acting as lead institution in the United Kingdom. The Folger Shakespeare Library and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities are acting as partner lead institutions in the United States.
British Library Digitised Manuscripts CollectionMany of the British Library's most important medieval manuscripts are being digitized and added to the website on an ongoing basis, as part of the Library’s commitment to the preservation and conservation of these manuscripts, and to providing access to all who would like to do research on them.