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This website created by Henry Targowski and Charly Jungbauer offers an abundance of information for cyberculture, English Literature, new media, hypertext, postmodernism, critical theory, avant garde and popular theory (et al.) students.

The Independent Literary Community consists of noncommercial literary presses and magazines, literary centers, writers conferences and festivals, writers who publish with noncommercial literary presses and magazines, service organizations which support the community, and independent bookstores which are the chief purveyors of noncommercial press books.

Today in Literature is a website run by two retired English teachers. They have created a site which features original biographical information on writers, texts and events in literary history. After completing a free registration users can gain restricted access to the archives holding in-depth information on writers and their works.

Autorevole, pluripremiato e ricchissimo network di siti web dedicato all'esplorazione della letteratura del XX secolo e in particolare agli esponenti più importanti del Modernismo, del Surrealismo, del "Realismo magico" e del Postmodernismo.

information on over 30,000 plays produced or published in English since 1956

Greg Lindahl provides this online database dedicated to sixteenth-century ballads meant to be sung. As well as the plain text database, it features an introductory article on 'The Music of the sixteenth-century Broadside Ballad' and there are also partial transcriptions from some prominent hardcopy collections of broadside ballads including: 'Ballads and Broadsides Chiefly of the Elizabethan Period and Printed in Black Letter Most of Which were Formerly in the Heber Collection and are now in the Library at Britwell Court Buckinghamshire

Gideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.

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

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

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.