Resources

Anchora – Adam G. Hooks; exploring the past, present, and future of early modern books and their readers www.adamghooks.net

asidenotes– Eoin Prince; Renaissance drama: then, now & sometimes in between asidenotes.wordpress.com

The Bardathon – Pete Kirwan reviews modern productions of (mostly) Shakespeare and contemporaries – blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/bardathon

The Bookfish – Steve Mentz; thalassology, Shakespeare and swimming – stevementz.com/the-bookfish

Blogging Shakespeare – Hosted by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – bloggingshakespeare.com

The Collation – Research and exploration at the Folger – collation.folger.edu

Digital Shakespeares – Erin Sullivan’s thoughts on Shakespeare and digital culture – digitalshakespeares.wordpress.com

dispositio – Holger Schott Syme; mostly theatre, then and now, there and here – www.dispositio.net

Early English Drama & Performance – Clare Wright, Matthew Sergi, Tamara Haddad, Laura Rice; a network for scholars, students and practitioners – earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com

Heather Froehlich – hfroehli.ch

Henslowe as a Blog – David Nicol; based around the records of Henslowe’s Diary – hensloweasablog.blogspot.co.uk

Illuminations – John Wyver, on early television, the RSC and more – www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/

James Loxley’s Digital Footprint – blog covering various projects inlcuding on Shakespeare and Jonson – jamesloxley.wordpress.com

Not You Will – Ronan Hatfull; Thoughts & practical responses to Shakespeare’s relevance & accessibility in our time – notyouwill.wordpress.com

¶ of pilcrows – Claire M. L. Bourne; text, performance, plays – www.ofpilcrows.com

Shakespeare Aloud – Bill Barclay, Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe – www.shakespearealoud.com

The Shakespeare blog – Sylvia Morris; In Shakespeare’s footsteps – theshakespeareblog.com

Shaksper – mailing list and resources – www.shaksper.net

Vade Mecum – Andrew S. Keener – andrewkeener.net

Wine Dark Sea – Jonathan Hope, Michael Witmore, et al.; drifting in a sea of texts and data – winedarksea.org

Wynken de Worde – Sarah Werner; books, early modern culture, postmodern readers – sarahwerner.net/blog

Youtube Shakespeare – Stephen O’Neill; online video sharing, creation and circulation featuring Shakespeare and company – shakespeareonyoutube.com

American Shakespeare Center – www.americanshakespearecenter.com (YouTube Channel)

BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource – TV and radio recordings from BBC Shakespeare collection (NB UK education access only) – shakespeare.ch.bbc.co.uk

BBC Shakespeare 2016 On Tour – BBC anniversary site – www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fcz11

The Beaumont and Fletcher Project – script-in-hand performances of the B&F canon – thebeaumontandfletcherproject.wordpress.com

Dekkerthon 2016 – Marathon reading of Dekker’s works at the Shakespeare Institue – dekkerthon.wordpress.com

The Dolphin’s Back – Rescuing forgotten plays & playwirghts, and bringing them back into contemporary performance – www.thedolphinsback.com

The Dutch Courtesan – Collection essays and resources created around a production of John Marston’s masterpiece at the University of York – www.dutchcourtesan.co.uk

Early Drama at Oxford (EDOX) – interdisciplinary exploration of medieval and eraly modern drama at Oxford – edox.org.uk

Edward’s Boys – Boys’ company based at Shakespeare’s School, King Edward’s Stratford-upon-Avon, led by Perry Mills – www.edwardsboys.org

Global Shakespeares – MIT’s polyglot video collection project – globalshakespeares.mit.edu

Original Pronunciation – David Crystal’s site – originalpronunciation.com

Passion in Practice – Ben Crystal’s company and ‘original practices’ – www.passioninpractice.com

Performing the Queen’s Men – University of Toronto and McMaster University project exploring the Queen’s Men company (1583-1603) – thequeensmen.mcmaster.ca

Players Shakespeare – generate cue scripts –  players-shakespeare.com

Play the Knave – motion capture Shakespeare – playtheknave.org

Poculi Ludique Societas – Toronto-based company working on medieval to mid-c16th drama – groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/front-page

Royal Shakespeare Company – www.rsc.org.uk (YouTube Channel)

Shakespeare’s Globe – www.shakespearesglobe.com (YouTube Channel)

Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court – project staging Sir David Lyndsay’s Satire of the Three Estates and Interlude at Linlithgow Palace and Stirling Castle – stagingthescottishcourt.brunel.ac.uk

Staging the Henrician Court – project staging John Heywood’s The Play of the Weather at Hampton Court Palace – stagingthehenriciancourt.brookes.ac.uk

Stratford Shakespeare Festival – www.stratfordfestival.ca (YouTube Channel)

The Three Ladies of London – Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/home/index.htm

Touchstone – the University of Birmingham’s list of current and upcoming productions of Shakespeare – www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html

Unless noted by *, online access is usually through institutional subscription.

*Actor Scholar – actorscholar.com

*Borrowers and Lenders – The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation – www.borrowers.uga.edu

Cahiers Elisabethains – cae.sagepub.com

Comparative Drama – www.wmich.edu/compdr

*Early Modern Literary Studies – extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html (for issues up to 2012) extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls (for issues from 2013)

*Early Theatre (ET/REED) – last two years available by subscription only – earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre

*The Hare – An online journal of brief essays and untimely reviews in Renaissance literature – thehareonline.com

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England – www.colgate.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/english/medieval-renaissance-drama

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) Newsletter – themrds.org

Medieval English Theatre (METh) – for listings of the contents of their published volume – www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/meth/intro.html

Notes and Queries – nq.oxfordjournals.org

Renaissance Drama – www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rd/current

*Renaissance Forum – NB last issue 2004 – www.hull.ac.uk/renforum

Renaissance Quarterly – Journal of the Renaissance Society of America – www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current

Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama (ROMARD) – NB not currently kept very up to date – www.romard.org

Shakespeare – Journal of the British Shakespeare Association – www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/current

Shakespeare Bulletin – www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin

Shakespeare Jahrbuch – shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/jahrbuch.html

Shakespeare Survey – www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/series/shakespeare-survey

Shakespeare Quarterly – www.folger.edu/shakespeare-quarterly  and www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_quarterly

Theatre Journal – www.press.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal

Theatre Notebook – str.org.uk/notebook

The Beinecke Library, Yale University – www.library.yale.edu/beinecke

The Bodleian Library – www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The British Library – www.bl.uk

Cambridge University Library – www.lib.cam.ac.uk

COPAC – search c.90 UK and Irish library catalogues – copac.jisc.ac.uk

The Folger Shakespeare Library – hosting the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, in Washington D.C. – www.folger.edu

The Huntington Library – www.huntington.org

The National Archives – www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Discovery (incorporating Access to Archives (A2A)) – The National Archives’ online catalogues – discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

The Complete Works of John Marston – arts.leeds.ac.uk/johnmarston

Digital Renaissance Editions – subsidiary of ISE; editions of early English drama and related texts – digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca

Early English Books Online (EEBO) – digital facsimiles, subscription needed – eebo.chadwyck.com

Folger Digital Texts API – generate custom Shakespeare texts using the Folger texts – www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/api

The Gorboduc Project – events and discussions around Revels series edition – gorboducproject.com

Internet Shakespeare Editions – online edtions and contextual info – internetshakespeare.uvic.ca

Lost Plays Database – lost plays 1570-1642 – www.lostplays.org

Queen’s Men Editions – subsidiary of ISE; editions of plays connected to the QM company – qme.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca

Richard Brome Online – The Complete Works of Richard Brome www.hrionline.ac.uk/brome/intro.jsp

The Thomas Nashe Project – critical edition and surrounding work on Nashe’s drama – research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject

York, Chester and Townley Mystery Plays – medieval mystery cycles, hosted by Poculi Ludique Societas – groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/texts

Anglo-Latin Wordbook – complication of Latin vocab glossed in REED collections – reed.utoronto.ca/wordbook

Bodleian Library Images of Manuscripts – c1000 images of manuscripts from 11th to 17th century – www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm

COPIA English Handwriting 1500-1700
– Univeristy of Cambridge online palaoegraphy course – www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/index.html

Dave Postles’ Early Modern Palaeography – learning aids and resources – paleo.anglo-norman.org/empfram.html

Language of Shakespeare’s Plays – losp.us

Lexicons of Early Modern English – leme.library.utoronto.ca

The National Archives Tutorial – online palaeography tutorial 1500-1800 – www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(ODNB) – oxforddnb.com

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – oed.com

Scriptorium – digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books c.1450-1720 – scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk

Texts, Manuscripts, and Palaeography – a list of resources from the University of Pennsylvania – ccat.sas.upenn.edu/hot/mss.shtml

BritGrad – British Graduate Shakespeare Conference – britgrad.wordpress.com

British Shakespeare Association – www.britishshakespeare.ws

Gloriana Society – glorianasociety.org

International Shakespeare Association – www.shakespeare.org.uk/education/research-scholars/isa

The Malone Society – malonesociety.com

Renaissance Society of America – www.rsa.org

Shakespeare Association of America – www.shakespeareassociation.org

Society of Renaissance Studies – www.rensoc.org.uk

Before Shakespeare – Project exploring the beginnings of London commercial theatre, 1565-1595  – beforeshakespeare.com

Biographical Index of English Drama before 1660 – David Kathman’s complete annotated list of playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous others – shakespeareauthorship.com/bd

The Curtain Theatre – covering excavation of site, found 2011 – www.thestageshoreditch.com/archaeology

Henslowe-Alleyn Digitization Project – the personal and professional papers of actor Edward Alleyn and his father-in-law, the impresario Philip Henslowe – www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk

The Holinshed Project – covering one of the most important historical sources for early modern dramatists – www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed

The Early Modern Drama Database – Tom Dale Keever’s online compendium – keever.us/earlymodern.html

The London Stage, 1660-1800: a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment (Part 1: 1660-1700) – (via HathiTrust) – hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020696632

Map of Early Modern London – interactive 1561 Agas map, encyclopedia, gazetteer and library – mapoflondon.uvic.ca/index.htm

REED: Records of Early English Drama – evidence of drama, secular music and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642 – reed.utoronto.ca

REED Projects:

Anglo-Latin Wordbook – see above

Early Modern London Theatres – interactive database of London theatres, their documents and after-lives – www.emlot.kcl.ac.uk

eREED – project to move REED collections to an online searchable platform – ereed.library.utoronto.ca

Patrons and Performances – professional performers outside London; patrons, play places and travel routes – reed.library.utoronto.ca

REED Pre-Publication – draft REED volumes in development – reedprepub.org

REED North East – REED project concentrating on NE England, based at Durham – community.dur.ac.uk/reed.ne

The Rose Playhouse – Bankside’s first Tudor theatre, inc. the Rose Revealed Project – www.rosetheatre.org.uk

Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) – the illustrated story of the playhouses, entrepreneurs, audiences, actors and dramatists that made up the early modern theatrical industry – shalt.dmu.ac.uk

The Theatre – site exploring Shakespeare’s first theatre – www.explorethetheatre.co.uk

Virtual Paul’s Cross Project – experience St Paul’s churchyard and John Donne’s Sermon for Gunpowder Day 1622 – vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu