Renaissance Poets
Thomas Campion
Physician, student of law, composer & poet, Thomas Campion was a Renaissance Man. Many of his airs & songs are at Luminarium complete with sound files -- “Followe Thy Faire Sunne” & “Beauty Is But a Painted Hell,” for instance.
Physician, student of law, composer & poet, Thomas Campion was a Renaissance Man. Many of his airs & songs are at Luminarium complete with sound files -- “Followe Thy Faire Sunne” & “Beauty Is But a Painted Hell,” for instance.
Thomas Campion
His complete Observations in the Art of English Poesie is online at Richard Bear's Renascence Editions at the University of Oregon.
His complete Observations in the Art of English Poesie is online at Richard Bear's Renascence Editions at the University of Oregon.
Mary Herbert
“Second only to the queen as an Elizabethan femme savante,” Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was known as a patron of the arts as well as a practitioner. Renascence Editions has published her translation of Robert Garnier's Antoine, The Tragedie of Antonie, online.
“Second only to the queen as an Elizabethan femme savante,” Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was known as a patron of the arts as well as a practitioner. Renascence Editions has published her translation of Robert Garnier's Antoine, The Tragedie of Antonie, online.
Luminarium Renaissance English Literature
Anniina Jokinen's labor of love is a beautiful multimedia collection of photos, introductory essays, texts and critical resources covering More, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare & many more. The very best place to start your study of Renaissance literature on the Net.
Anniina Jokinen's labor of love is a beautiful multimedia collection of photos, introductory essays, texts and critical resources covering More, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare & many more. The very best place to start your study of Renaissance literature on the Net.
Christopher Marlowe
Born the same year as Shakespeare, Marlowe was nonetheless his predecessor: he had made his name as a dramatist & been killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29 by the time Shakespeare began his career. His complete works are online at the Perseus Project & Luminarium has a good collection of essays.
Born the same year as Shakespeare, Marlowe was nonetheless his predecessor: he had made his name as a dramatist & been killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29 by the time Shakespeare began his career. His complete works are online at the Perseus Project & Luminarium has a good collection of essays.
William Shakespeare
Amanda Mabillard’s About Shakespeare site is vast & well organized, the very best place to look for anything related to the Bard’s works, performances of his plays, his life & times -- and it also has a complete library of e-texts of the plays, poems & sonnets.
Amanda Mabillard’s About Shakespeare site is vast & well organized, the very best place to look for anything related to the Bard’s works, performances of his plays, his life & times -- and it also has a complete library of e-texts of the plays, poems & sonnets.
William Shakespeare
The Bard’s complete works are online at MIT with search facilities. But Terry Gray’s comprehensive Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet site is also a good place to begin your study.
The Bard’s complete works are online at MIT with search facilities. But Terry Gray’s comprehensive Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet site is also a good place to begin your study.
Shakespeare Plays
Among the Shakespearean resources at the University of Northern British Columbia are hypertext versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream & King Lear, plus a Shakespearean Poetry Search engine.
Among the Shakespearean resources at the University of Northern British Columbia are hypertext versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream & King Lear, plus a Shakespearean Poetry Search engine.
Shakespeare Poetry Port
Starbuck's Classical Poetry Port has a whole raft of discussion commons & chat rooms devoted to the histories, the comedies, the tragedies & Shakespeare's poetry -- mostly filled with students' requests for help, but you can find some intelligent conversation & share your knowledge if you're a Shakespeare devotee.
Starbuck's Classical Poetry Port has a whole raft of discussion commons & chat rooms devoted to the histories, the comedies, the tragedies & Shakespeare's poetry -- mostly filled with students' requests for help, but you can find some intelligent conversation & share your knowledge if you're a Shakespeare devotee.
Shakespearean Poetry Search
The UNBC Literary Engine allows you to search for a word or a line in Shakespeare's sonnets, Venus and Adonis, A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim & The Rape of Lucrece.
The UNBC Literary Engine allows you to search for a word or a line in Shakespeare's sonnets, Venus and Adonis, A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim & The Rape of Lucrece.
Shakespeare Sonnet of the Day
Want a daily infusion of the Bard's sonnets? Visit the killdevilhill.com literary campfire.
Want a daily infusion of the Bard's sonnets? Visit the killdevilhill.com literary campfire.
Shakespearean Sonnet Lighthouse Greetings
Choose a lighthouse photograph from the North Carolina Outer Banks & combine it with one of Shakespeare's sonnets to send an e-greeting card.
Choose a lighthouse photograph from the North Carolina Outer Banks & combine it with one of Shakespeare's sonnets to send an e-greeting card.
Active Shakespeare
Test your knowledge of the Bard with Michael Hildebrandt’s Shakespeare Sonnet Quiz: it gives you the heroic couplets from 154 Shakespearean sonnets & asks you to fill in the final rhymes, keeping score as you go along. Active Shakespeare also has the text of all the sonnets.
Test your knowledge of the Bard with Michael Hildebrandt’s Shakespeare Sonnet Quiz: it gives you the heroic couplets from 154 Shakespearean sonnets & asks you to fill in the final rhymes, keeping score as you go along. Active Shakespeare also has the text of all the sonnets.
Shakespeare Web Poetry Applet
A Java game from Shakespeare Web: magnetic poetry with the Bard's vocabulary!
A Java game from Shakespeare Web: magnetic poetry with the Bard's vocabulary!
John Skelton
Poet Laureate of both Oxford & Cambridge, tutor to the young Henry VIII, clergyman & wag, Skelton’s poems are online at Dead Poets Society & the University of Toronto.
Poet Laureate of both Oxford & Cambridge, tutor to the young Henry VIII, clergyman & wag, Skelton’s poems are online at Dead Poets Society & the University of Toronto.
Edmund Spenser
Luminarium’s Renaissance lit site is a good place to begin looking for Spenser online, with several interesting essays & a link to Spenser quotes from Bartlett’s Quotations at Bartleby.com.
Luminarium’s Renaissance lit site is a good place to begin looking for Spenser online, with several interesting essays & a link to Spenser quotes from Bartlett’s Quotations at Bartleby.com.
Edmund Spenser
Richard Bear's site at the University of Oregon is home to two important Spenserian activities: Renascence Editions, which has published many of Spenser's works online (including the complete Faerie Queene), & the Spenser-L discussion list.
Richard Bear's site at the University of Oregon is home to two important Spenserian activities: Renascence Editions, which has published many of Spenser's works online (including the complete Faerie Queene), & the Spenser-L discussion list.
Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion
Sonnets & more from the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center.
Sonnets & more from the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center.
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
The debate as to whether Oxford was the true author of the works credited to Shakespeare rages on the Net: see Frontline’s Update on the Shakespeare Mystery& UC Berkeley Professor Alan Nelson’s collection of resources promoting de Vere.
The debate as to whether Oxford was the true author of the works credited to Shakespeare rages on the Net: see Frontline’s Update on the Shakespeare Mystery& UC Berkeley Professor Alan Nelson’s collection of resources promoting de Vere.