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Links Database: Keyword renaissance

• "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A 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's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A 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

• A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture

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

  Castaldo, Annalisa. "A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP) 20 (1997). Castaldo explores the effects of the integration of Shakespeare's work into popular culture:

  keywords: popular, culture, renaissance, papers, essays

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660

  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/

  David Kathman has developed "a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660":

  keywords: biographical, drama, renaissance, index, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• CRRS: Romeo & Juliet Prompt-Books

  http://www.crrs.ca/publications/electronic/romeo.htm

  Jill Levenson's site "Romeo and Juliet Prompt-books" is a fully searchable database containing information from approximately 170 Romeo and Juliet prompt-books from productions from the seventeenth century to the 1980s:

  keywords: prompt, rom, romeo and juliet, reformation, renaissance, seventeenth

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > Romeo and Juliet

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies

  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-330/

  Rebecca Bushnell's course at U. Penn, English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies, has posted some wonderful visual resources, as well as many maps and portraits:

  keywords: course, english, maps, renaissance, portrait

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• Folger Shakespeare Library

  http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm

  The Folger Shakespeare Library maintains some excellent pages on the exhibitions they have mounted. There are some superb resources available here on the social history of the Renaissance:

  keywords: history, library, renaissance, social

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• French Renaissance Literature

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

  Early Modern French Literature is a gateway to French Renaissance texts:

  keywords: early modern, french, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/index.html

  The Internet Shakespeare Editions has an extensive site on Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance context of the stage, society, politics, the history of ideas, and the literature of the time:

  keywords: history, life, politics, renaissance, stage

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Internet Archive

  http://www.archive.org/index.php

  This site serves as an excellent gateway through which to search other databases of archived materials. The four databases include moving images, live music, audio, and text:

  keywords: archive, text, audio, renaissance, old

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources

  valid as of 2007-09-14

• New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries

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

  There is a special issue of EMLS devoted 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

• Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

  http://www.pnrs.org/

  The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society promotes scholarship in Early Modern Studies through their annual academic conference:

  keywords: association, early, modern, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2

  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html

  Records of Early English Drama has extensive links to Medieval, Shakespeare and paleographical sites of interest on their WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2 page:

  keywords: drama, renaissance, history, medieval, music, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Renaissance Dance

  http://www.rendance.org/

  The Renaissance Dance Home Page contains information and archives from the RenDance discussion list, as well as gives links to on-line resources for students of Renaissance dance, including transcriptions from manuscript sources. Access these resources at:

  keywords: dance, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Renaissance Forum

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/index.html

  Renaissance Forum is a refereed electronic journal on Early Modern Literary and Historical studies:

  keywords: early, electronic, forum, historical, journal, modern, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• SCETI: Furness Collection

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/

  The wonderful Furness Library , at the University of Pennsylvania, now provides vibrant facsimiles from various Shakespeare plays and other renaissance works of interest in Shakespeare studies, such as Holinshed's Chronicles. This site requires Flash plug-in:

  keywords: collection, facsimiles, folio, holinshed, library, manuscript, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (1609)

  http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/shakespeare/1609inti.html

  "A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period." Published by Web Development Group, University of Toronto Library, and edited by Ian Lancashire:

  keywords: edition, electronic, renaissance, son, sonnets

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Sonnets

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers

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

  Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers (SRASP) is an electronic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and culture. This site provides the best papers from the yearly West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference from 1999 to 2004:

  keywords: association, culture, electronic, index, journal, papers, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare's Food Poesies

  http://www.soupsong.com/ibard.html

  An informal survey of Shakespeare's use of food in his writings which reveals much about Renaissance literary convention and the Elizabethan table:

  keywords: food, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shakespeare's Pacifism

  http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/pacifism.html

  Marx, Steven. "Shakespeare's Pacifism." Renaissance Quarterly 45.1 (1992): 49-95. Marx discusses the peaceful and militarist elements of Shakespeare's drama:

  keywords: renaissance, militant, pacifist, war

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire

  http://www.shrewfaire.com/

  Shrewsbury Renaissance Faireis an "interactive living history village" in Kings Valley, Oregon. The site includes a number of links to Renaissance and Medieval sites, as well as a history portion that offers lessons and tutorials:

  keywords: renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Frank Furness Collection

  http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/

  The Frank Furness Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library includes the text of various Shakespeare plays as well as graphic examples of the originals; the site also has other relevant Renaissance texts. This site requires flash plug-in:

  keywords: collection, library, renaissance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• The Internet Renaissance Band

  http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic

  Curtis Clarke's page The Internet Renaissance Band presents a number of English country dances:

  keywords: english, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle

  http://vos.ucsb.edu/

  The "Renaissance & 17th Century" portion of the Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research is a good entry to other sites of interest:

  keywords: humanities, renaissance

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources

  valid as of 2005-10-21

• What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm

  Longstaffe, Steve. "What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?" Renaissance Forum 2.2 (Autumn 1997). Longstaffe explores different approaches toward English History Plays, including Shakespeare's.

  keywords: english, forum, history, renaissance, play

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07