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This site provides extensive resources for students, teachers, scholars, and all others interested in researching the Georgian Theatre milieu, both in London and the British American colonies.

Adam Smyth's on-line 'Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682' catalogues 41 poetical miscellanies published during the Civil War and Restoration. Verses are searchable alphabetically by title, first line, last line and author. Description fields also include titles, dates and page references of the miscellanies. The resource compensates for the lack of indices in many of these collections of seventeenth-century verse and provides the opportunity to establish quickly a sense of the predominant themes, topics and verse forms employed by some of the lesser known poets of this period

Information about various authors and their literary works which were inspired by events and people in colonial New England -- among them, Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter and "Young Goodman Brown"). The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.