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Note: there are plenty of sites you can go to for information on/links to individual writers, artists and so on, so only a handful of those are likely to be listed here.
For writers, check out:
The Voice of the Shuttle English Literature page and Literatures other than English;
Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-century Literature and Renaissance Literary Resources;
Index to English
Renaissance Literature (R Bailey)
Artists:
Try the splendid Web Gallery of Art; Mark Harden's Artchive
Contexts and general resources
Social Sites of Renaissance Lyrics a fascinating site, the results of a project by graduate students attempting 'to recover the connections between historical places and lyrics, to show the poems' attachments to material places and their social environs', with analysis of a number of renaissance poets, eg London taverns in Robert Herrick's poetry
An image-oriented introduction to Renaissance literature (Herman Asanow) images provided for a taught course: a series of copies of original images and texts aimed at suggesting the ideas and concerns to be found in British Renaissance literature
Shakespeare's Life and Times (Internet Shakespeare Editions) I rather like this site, which apart from being a major resource for Shakespeare's work, has themed essays (in 10 'books') on topics including gender and family life, politics and ideas, the development of the stage and dramas, etc
A Literary Website (James Berg) taught course materials and resources
Women's early music, art, poetry (much wider in its coverage than early modern Europe) a great range of resources and links
The Printing Press Online (at this site)
Emory Women Writers' Project a collection of texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
Early Modern French Women Writers (University of Minnesota) texts by French women writers
Seventeenth-century women poets bibliography with biographical and text resources
Transgressing boundaries: women's writing in the renaissance and reformation (Janet Clare) essay in Renaissance Forum
Sonnet Central (Eric Blomquist) includes sections on early sonnets, Elizabethan, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century and the Romantic period
The Aphra Behn Page (Ruth Nestvold) includes biographical material, primary sources, links, sections on Behn and racism and on women in the Restoration theatre
The Aphra Behn Society '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
Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (University of Toronto)
Anne Bradstreet (Jone Johnson Lewis) useful resources and links
The Margaret Cavendish Society includes online resources and bibliography, information on membership
Aemilia Lanyer (Kari Boyd McBride) biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv
As One Phoenix: Four seventeenth-century women poets (Ron Cooley and students) a project produced by students at the University of Saskatchewan: looks at Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Lady Mary Wroth, providing bibliographies, biographies and texts for each poet, plus web links and a bibliography of anthologies
British Women's Novels: a reading list, 1775-1818 (Catherine Decker)
The Milton Reading Room a collaborative project: much of Milton's poetry and major prose works are already available, and aims to form a comprehensive digital resource of his work; also web links and a substantial bibliography of recent criticism
Milton-L Home Page the discussion group devoted to John Milton and his life, work and times, which aims to be a comprehensive index for information on the poet
Sidneiana (Gavin Alexander, CERES) 'a developing multimedia archive of projects and materials relating to the Sidney family'
Edmund Spenser Home Page (Andrew Zurcher, CERES) the home of Edmund Spenser on the web, has biography, bibliography, e-texts, discussion list, the Spenser Society
The Metaphysical Poets (Anniina Jokinen) resources for these seventeenth-century English poets, including John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet (Terry Gray) a multi-award-winning site which has two main aims: as a comprehensive guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the internet, and to present new material unavailable elsewhere on the net
Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe (British Library) 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'.
Early English Drama (Records for 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
Elizabethan Theatre (Hilda Spear) text and accompanying slides from a lecture
Shakespeare's Stage (Internet Shakespeare Editions) examines the development of theatres and stages from the middle ages to Shakespeare's times
The Drama and Shakespeare (Internet Shakespeare Editions) introduction to the dramatic traditions/genres
English Renaissance drama (Michael J Redmond) [unavailable, January '04]
Theatre history on the web (Jack Wolcott) includes sections on medieval and renaissance theatre, Elizabethan, eighteenth century and other useful stuff
Shakespeare's Globe includes information about the original Globe theatre (as well as the new one) and London playhouses
Early Modern Plays Presented in London Playhouses (Tom Dale Keever) data on drama performances in London from 1576 to 1642
Internet Beaumont and Fletcher Editions (Drew Whitehead) aims to provide a complete, searchable database of the works of this prolific pair of dramatists
The Magician, the Heretic, and the Playright: Faustus, Marlowe, and the English Stage (Norton Topics Online) Marlowe's life, plays and death examined
The World of London Theater 1660-1800 (text-only version) a collaborative graduate students' project (Patricia Craddock's students at the University of Florida); includes timeline, information on places, people, plays, web resources, bibliography
The Drama in the eighteenth century (Moonstruck Drama Bookstore) reproduction of a 1912 article by Brander Matthews; there are also links to information about a number of dramatists of the period. If you go to the main homepage, there's a fuller list of dramatists (alphabetically organised) that includes other early modern figures
Early English Musick 1385-1714 (EXLibris) brief biographical information on hundreds of musicians, arranged within chronological sections, as well as an extensive bibliography
Early Music Sites (Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh)
Acadia early music resources (Gordon J Callon)
A Survey of French Opera (1670-1770) (François R Velde) a of the development (and controversies) of opera in Paris in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de St-Georges (?) web page for this eighteenth-century composer, violinist and conductor born in the West Indies to African & French parents
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
Sixteenth-century ballads (Greg Lindahl) an on-going project focusing on pre-1600 ballads, includes a database, transcripts and related resources
Blackletter Ballads (L E Pearson) a selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ballads
Renaissance Art Resources (Chris Witcombe) along with the next two entries, part of a massive set of art history resources: resources for individual artists, for types of art, themes
Baroque Art Resources (Chris Witcombe)
Eighteenth-century Art Resources (Chris Witcombe)
Antony van Dyck (Robin Blake) celebrating the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth; biography, a virtual exhibition of images, online resources
The Art of William Hogarth (Haley Steele online exhibit) described as 'a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work', and just goes to show that 'commercial' sites can be top-quality resources; the quality of the images is very good
The Hogarth Archive (University of Wales, Lampeter) again, a substantial collection of images online, as well as an extensive bibliography (images start here if you can't get access to the front page)
Rembrandt Links (MyStudios)
Jan Vermeer (World Art Treasures) biography, paintings, historical context
Artemisia Gentileschi and the Age of Baroque (Rebecca Corbell and Samantha Guy) a student project which includes a biography, analysis of paintings in the light of the rape trial (and an extract of the trial itself). Sadly, none of the graphics work (on my browser at least)
English Caricature Prints 1720-1820 (Haley Steele)
Architecture and Public Space (The Italian Renaissance)
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (C W Westfall) a collection of photographs ranging from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries; mainly Italian but some French and English examples
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