Literature & Drama Websites

From The University of Scranton Research Guides

Literature

• a.k.a. Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names, etc.

• Athenaeum Projects The Athenaeum, a weekly periodical from London between 1828-1923, covered a wide range of topics in literature, fine arts, music, politics and popular science. This is an electronic archive for the journal. The Weinberg Memorial Library also has this journal on microfilm.

• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online Electronic text library includes the full-text to hundreds of works.

• Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Provides a variety of information on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his works.

• ClassicReader This collection has over 740 books and 1000 short stories by over 200 authors.

• Digital Dante Project Maintained by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University, this site contains information on everything relating to Dante.

• Digital Defoe An online, interactive, peer-reviewed journal by the Defoe Society.

• The Edgar Allen Poe Digital Collection Manuscripts, books annotated by Poe, and portraits of the author, all available digitally.

• Humbul Humanities Hub Striving to "meet the needs of scholars in the humanities," this site is essentially a portal to web sites on American Studies, the Classics, and the literature and languages of English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian and Slavonic.

• Literary Resources on the Net Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers.

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Attempts "to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet."

• Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP): Resources for Research: Periodicals This website is a compilation of links to free digital collections of a large variety of American periodicals.

• The National Book Foundation Great American writers and writings. The many other offerings of the foundation include award lists, workshops, writing camps, and other available resources.

• The Web Concordances Concordances to the works of Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

• The Paris Review: Interview Archive Archive of interviews published in The Paris Review. Interviewees include many famous writers and artists.

• Representative Poetry Online Online resource for poetry from all eras, from the poems themselves to timelines, glossaries of literary terms, and other useful information for the study of poetry.

• Open Source Shakespeare This website "attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works" (from the website).

• Geoffrey Chaucer "This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. [...] It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages" (from the website). A valuable resource for studies in Chaucer, particularly The Canterbury Tales.

• Victorian Research Web Maintained by Patrick Leary, this website provides guidance and links to reliable web resources for Victorian studies.

• The Poetry Archive "The Poetry Archive is the world's premier collection of recordings of poets reading their own works" (from the website).

• Baldwin Library of Children's Literature Digital Collection An impressive digital archive of works of children's literature published in the UK and US from the early 1700s through the current year. May be searched (full-text or by title/author/etc.) or browsed by genre.

Drama/Theatre

• eOneill An electronic Eugene O'Neill archive. Includes guides to finding resources through major O'Neill archives, selected texts of plays, career information, and other items of interest.

• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) The IBDB archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information.

• Musicals101 A cyber encyclopedia of musical theatre, TV and film featuring a history of musicals, how musicals are made, photo galleries, chronologies, and more.

• The Plays of William Shakespeare Texts of all of Shakespeare's plays.

• WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama Resources from more than 50 countries on a variety of topics dealing with theatre and drama.

• Performing Arts Encyclopedia "Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress" (from the website).

• The Costumer's Manifesto Website providing links to resources about costuming, including history, ethnic garb, and many other subsets of information about costumes.

• Internet Shakespeare Editions "The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience. To do so, we create and publish works for the student, scholar, actor, and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet: scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance" (from the "About" section of the website).

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