Acadia early music resources
(Gordon J Callon)
The Aphra Behn Page
Includes biographical material, links, sections on Behn and racism and on women in Restoration theatre (Ruth Nestvold)
Audience behaviour in Shakespeare’s London
An essay about theatregoing experiences in London around 1600 (Andrew Gurr)
Bach
Bibliography (Yo Tomita)
Blackletter Ballads
A selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ballads (L E Pearson)
Bodleian Broadside Ballads Project
30,000 ballads online, from the Bodleian Library’s collections, fully indexed and searchable by author, title, subject etc. There are also woodcut images and some musical scores (Bodleian Library)
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
online database of every printed playbook produced in England up to the Restoration, intended to aid study of “the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource”; provides information about title-pages, paratextual matter, advertising features, and bibliographic background (Alan Farmer and Zachary Lesser)
The Drama in the eighteenth century
A 1912 article by Brander Matthews; there are also links to information about a number of dramatists of the period (Moonstruck Drama Bookstore)
Records of Early English Drama
‘REED has for the last 25 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642′; includes extensive listing of online resources (Center for Research in Early English Drama)
Early English Musick 1385-1714
Brief biographical information on hundreds of musicians, arranged within chronological sections, as well as an extensive bibliography (EXLibris)
Early Modern English Drama
scholarly digital editions of an expanding range of 16th/17th-century non-Shakespearean English plays, which aims ‘to bring these plays to light and make them readily accessible to students, scholars, actors, and general readers, in the form of critical, fully annotated editions’ (Digital Renaissance Editions)
Early Modern Drama Database
Data on drama performances in London from 1576 to 1642 (Tom Dale Keever)
Early Music Sites
(Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh)
Elizabethan Theatre
Text and accompanying slides from a lecture (Hilda Spear)
Female Crime in Renaissance Drama
Website of a student project which considers media representations of murderous women, focusing on the play Arden of Faversham (Matthew Clothier and Leah Edwards) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Hamlet Conundrums
A site for a course examining interpretations of Shakespeare’s play, including themes of spirits and apparitions, revenge, melancholy and suicide, contrasting thinking on these topics in the Elizabethan period, the Romantic revolution or the 20th century (Erik Pearson)
Internet Beaumont and Fletcher Editions
This site aims to provide a complete, searchable database of the works of this prolific pair of dramatists (Drew Whitehead)
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de St-Georges
A web page for this eighteenth-century composer, violinist and conductor born in the West Indies to African & French parents (William J Zick)
The Magician, the Heretic, and the Playwright: Faustus, Marlowe, and the English Stage
Marlowe’s life, plays and death examined with texts and commentaries (Norton Topics Online)
McGill Shakespeare Resources
A useful set of resources aimed particularly at students of Shakespeare, including pages on Shakespeare on film and TV, web resources, E-texts, etc (McGill University)
Minstrel Page
Useful material related to the performing arts in the middle ages and early modern period, primarily aimed at re-enactors (Greg Lindahl)
Pantomime and the Orient
online exhibition focusing on pantomime, a ‘hybrid of dance, song and spectacle’, and its oriental themes (Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance History)
Patrons and Performances
Contains data about professional travelling entertainers in England to 1642 - their patrons, venues, routes; searchable, interactive maps (REED)
Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe
An online exhibit, accompanying the 1998 Panizzi lectures by Roger Chartier which examined ‘the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts from the theatre to the printing house in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ (British Library)
Reclaiming Early Shakespeare
Article by Emrys Jones on the ‘recovery’ of a number of the earliest Shakespeare plays (Oxford Eprints)
From Essays in Criticism 51:1 (2001), pp. 35-50
Renaissance Dance
Online resources and sources, bibliography, discography, Rendance mailing list (Andrew Draskóy)
Representing France and the French in early modern England
Online database of allusions to France and the French in early modern English drama in an ongoing project; research bibliography and other resources, related links
Seeing What Shakespeare Means
online exhibit, uses woodcut prints to help visualise unfamiliar vocabular in Shakespeare’s plays (Folger Library)
