The Most Useful Shakespeare and Other Early Modern English (Renaissance and

Baroque) Websites
NOTE: This is a relatively rich collection, especially in terms of the further links you will find at
each website, but it is by no means comprehensive. Unfortunately, better and best sites demand
either a password and/or one is chared !heavily" for their use. #till, it miht be useful to see how
one could !should" start research on #hakespeare and the period on the $nternet.
Texts and Research Centres related primarily to Shakespeare
%r. &illiam #hakespeare and the $nternet: a site to start with. 'opular and fairly reliable, yet
some of the data miht be dated
Facsimile of the First Folio (1623) owned by Brandeis University.
MIT's The Complete Works with search engine.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare: Complete Works
The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) :facsimile of the First
Folio (1623) and some quarto editions of the plays
HTML searchable versions of the First Folio (1623)
For original Shakespeare Quartos and for much more visit:
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepae.html
Seventeenth-Century Prompt books
The Oxford Shakespeare edited by W. J. Craig
Electronic Shakespeare: Resources for Researchers. A
Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Shakespeare Illustrated. 1
ABSOLUTE SHAKESPEARE (texts and other useful material):
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
Mr. William Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare's Will 1616
The Electronic Literature Foundation Shakespeare pae.
The Shakespearean Insult !ae.
The Shakespeare "uarterl#. t.
C.T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary (1911) from the Perseus Project
Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works from the Perseus Project
Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern English) Texts and Research Tools:
Primary Sources available on the web
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Renaissance texts, including Marlowe's plays
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Bible and Reformation Commentary
Bible and Early Fathers: The Bible, Calvin's and Geneva Commentaries;
Reformation and Modern Evangelical Commentators
Bible Browser: The best Bible searcher on the Web
The Bible Gateway: KJV. HTML Bible
NETBible: New English Translation and Bible Study Centre
Apocryphal New Testament Writings
Web Resources for Biblical Studies
The Blue Letter Bible. with links to Concordance and Hebrew and Greek
lexicons, also with an evangelical mission.
1559 Book of Common Prayer. The Elizabethan Prayer Book for the Church of
England, in current use in Shakespeare's day.
The Elizabethan Homilies (1623). Ofcial sermons appointed to be read from
pulpits
Elizabethan Theatre
Shakespeare and the Globe
Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now. A site prepared by Encyclopedia Britannica:
articles, videos, audio clips, etc.
History
The British Monarchy
Tudor History from tudorhistory.org.
Elizabeth I from elizabethi.org.
The Life and Times of "ueen Eli/a*eth I A
Norton Topics Online: The Sixteenth Century: A rich selection of primary documents
and texts
Norton Topics Online: The Early Seventeenth Century: A rich selection of primary
documents and texts
ERIC Multimedia Tutorials in Early Modern Culture: History of the Book, Printing,
Shakespeare in Context (Requires Shockwave Flash Player)
General Reference Tools and Guides
The Oxford English Dictionary OnLine: Most authoritative historical dictionary of English
Wilson Web Indexes (DCIS) Search for Articles and Books from 1983 to the present
MLA Bibliography (DCIS)
The %LA 0i*lioraph#.
Early English Books Online.
The Voice of the Shuttle. A large collection of searchable links for literary study.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Alex: A Catalogue of E-Texts on the Internet.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Proper formats for papers and citations.