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The Furness Shakespeare Library has made available over the internet rare and often first editions of Elizabethan documents contemporary to Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's own works. By scanning the images of these rare texts, the library hopes to inspire interest and learning through texts most will never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Within this website you can browse by author or text. While some texts are complete others contain title pages or illustrations, or the author's comments. Under ERIC (English Renaissance in Context) there are tutorials designed to assist teachers. The tutorials do not supply answers like study guides, rather they propose important questions about the text and bring up issues to be discussed in class. There are tutorials on "Romeo and Juliet", "Merchant of Venice", "Richard III", "King Lear", and topics about Renaissance publishing and printing.

This useful online guide to Renaissance pronunciation is provided by John M. Vinopal as part of his Renaissance Faire homepage. Categories include: Pronunciation; Pronunciation Drills; Vocabulary; Grammar; Forms of Address; Insults and Cursing; and Songs of the Times. The brief pronunciation tutorial and pronunciation guide both feature sound files in a selection of formats and, although the songs page is text only, it does contain a reasonable selection for an introduction to the Renaissance balla