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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
Shakespeare’s Globe Research Database
Archive of site that provided background information on Shakespearean performance and the Globe Playhouse (Lyn Holman) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Shakespeare’s Stage
Examines the development of theatres and stages from the middle ages to Shakespeare’s times (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
Shakespeare, his contemporaries and the representation of Italy
(Michael J Redmond) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Theatre history on the web
Includes sections on medieval and renaissance theatre, Elizabethan, eighteenth century and other useful stuff (Jack Wolcott)
The World of London Theater 1660-1800
A collaborative graduate students’ project (Patricia Craddock’s students at the University of Florida); includes timeline, information on places, people, plays, web resources, bibliography
