Acadia early music resources
(Gordon J Callon)
Aemilia Lanyer Includes biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv (Kari Boyd McBride)
Anne Bradstreet
Very useful resources and links (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
(Representative Poetry Online)
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
resource for poetry, biography and sources (Ellen Moody)
Anthologies of women’s writing
(Sunshine for women)
The Aphra Behn Page
Includes biographical material, links, sections on Behn and racism and on women in Restoration theatre (Ruth Nestvold)
The Aphra Behn Society
Website for this society, which is ‘dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women’s role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800′; links and syllabi as well as society information and recent newsletters
Art History Resources on the Web
(Chris Witcombe)
The art of Renaissance science
Essay on ‘the genius of Galileo and the relation between his role in the Scientific Revolution and the equally remarkable achievements of Renaissance artists’ (Joseph W Dauben)
The Art of William Hogarth
Described as ‘a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work’, the quality of the images is very good and it’s easy to navigate (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Renaissance Art Resources
Baroque Art Resources
Eighteenth-century Art Resources
links resources for individual artists, types of art, themes (Chris Witcombe)
Artchive
Extensive and wide-ranging resource for images and information about artists (Mark Harden)
Artpix
An excellent art resource: 15th/16th-century Netherlandish and 17th-century Dutch painters, and some Italian renaissance (Bernard Huyvaert) (NB: Wayback Archive: I cannot guarantee that all the images will have been archived)
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)
Blogging the Renaissance
a thoroughly engaging blog by a group of Renaissance literary scholars, equally at home with scholarly discussions and rude jokes
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)
British Women Romantic Poets
An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)
British Women’s Novels: a reading list, 1775-1818
Selective annotated bibliography, with additional web links (Catherine Decker)
(Unavailable, November 2005)
The Bubble Project
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts, includes bibliography, essays, historical outline (David McNeil et al)
Corvey CW3 Journal
Online journal for Romantic-era women’s writing
Crime and literature in the eighteenth century
Bibliography (Edith Hallberg)
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)
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Photographs of a range of forms of architecture, from wigwams to industrial buildings (Jeffery Howe)
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)
