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Renaissance Literature
Bibliographies - Lists of books and other works relating to a specific topic. Useful for finding references and expanding your reading. (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Medieval) Milton Bibliography - Comprehensive collection of manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works and studies, along with allusions, quotations and significant imitations during the years 1624-1799. Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Includes the Iter Bibliography database with over a million citations for secondary source material from 400-1700.
Web Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Medieval) King James Bible - Fully searchable online version of the KJV (also known as the Authorized Version). Digital Temple : a documentary edition of George Herbert's English verse Modern-spelling transcriptions of Herbert's verse, alongside digital images of the sources and textual notes. Ben Jonson Online - Online version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Also includes chronology and scholarly essays. Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. The Forest of Rhetoric - silva rhetoricae - Guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Perseus Digital Library - All major works of classical literature with translations in parallel. British History Online - Digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period 1300-1800.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Digitised copies of the Bodleian Library holdings of over 30,000 ballads from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Philological Museum - Digital collection of Humanistic letters and texts hosted by The Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham.
Faculty Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers >Medieval ) Cambridge Authors - Project focusing on authors who studied at Cambridge includes George Herbert & Christopher Marlowe. Milton 400: Paradise Lost- A live reading of Milton's Paradise Lost by members of the Faculty of English. Darkness Visible - Resource from Christ's College for those studying Milton's Paradise Lost. Scriptorium - A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c.1450-1720.
In the EFL Print primary & secondary texts Classmarks E 31-34 (Library Basement) Classmarks K, L, M: Art, Music, Theatre (Library 1st Floor) Audio recordings & DVDs Dr Faustus: Shakespeare’s Globe – DVD 3 MAR The Duchess of Malfi : BBC Arts at the Globe – DVD 8 BBC Find more on the DVD shelves or search iDiscover.
Journals English Literary Renaissance (print and e-journal) Fifteenth Century Studies (e-journal) Medievalia et Humanistica (print)
Parergon – Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (e-journal) Renaissance Drama (print and e-journal) Renaissance News (e-journal) John Donne Journal (e-journal) Renaissance Quarterly (e-journal) Renaissance Studies (print and e-journal) Spenser Studies (print journal) SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (e-journal) Studies in the Renaissance (e-journal) Viator : medieval and renaissance studies (print journal)
Key ebooks - (Find links on iDiscover) Ricks, Christopher, Milton’s Grand Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) Barton, Anne, Ben Jonson, Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) Dollimore, Jonathan, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Reissued 3rd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Neill, Michael, Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy (Oxford :New York: Clarendon Press ;Oxford University Press, 1997) Norbrook, David, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Rev. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Cambridge Companions - All available as e-books, find them on iDiscover. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism And more…