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• "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Bowen, Julia A. "'Swift hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA Midsummer Night's Dream."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (SRASP)20 (1997). Bowen examines how Lyly and Shakespeare took advantage of Elizabeth's established iconography to make the queen a presence in their dramas and to what effect:

  keywords: dream, early modern, elizabeth, iconography, MND, midsummer, night's, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• "That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites": The Turks in Shakespeare'sOthello

  http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/othello.html

  Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare'sOthello."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Briefly exploresOthelloin the context of relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period:

  keywords: context, early modern, history, Oth, othello, ottoman, turks

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

  http://eserver.org/emc/

  Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminarprovides works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics. The desire is to open a conversation, and make explicit how much scholarly work depends upon careful reading, as well as critical (in the best sense of that word) exchange:

  keywords: culture, early modern, electronic

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• French Renaissance Literature

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/early.modern.html

  Early Modern French Literatureis a gateway to French Renaissance texts:

  keywords: early modern, french, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01toc.html

  There is a special issue ofEMLSdevoted to discoveries made with the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) at the University of Toronto at:

  keywords: database, dictionaries, early modern, english, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm

  Sohmer, Steve. "The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (1999): 2.1-17. Sohmer analyzes the dates inKing Learto provide evidence that the lunar calendar was one of Shakespeare's sources and suggests the possibility that the play was performed for King James I on December 26, 1606 as well as the significance of this date:

  keywords: calendar, date, early modern, james, king, Lr, lear

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Understanding Shakespeare'sTitus Andronicusand theEMEDD

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01lancashire.html

  Lancashire, Ian. "Understanding Shakespeare'sTitus Andronicusand the EMEDD."Early Modern Literary Studies6.1/Special Issue 1 (1997): 6.1-20. A guided tour of theEarly Modern English Dictionaries Databaseand its usefulness when used alongsideTitus Andronicusto explore the different Renaissance meaning of many of the play's words:

  keywords: computer, database, definition, dictionaries, early modern, electronic, meaning, Tit, titus andronicus

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus

  valid as of 2005-09-08