Pointers to Research Resources

Shakespeare and the Renaissance

• You can check out my more detailed listing of sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
• EMLS (Early Modern Literary Studies) maintains an excellent index of early modern Internet resources and e-texts
  • (There is an article by the author of this home page on EMLS)
• Renaissance English Texts (Toronto)
• Renaissance e-texts (Oregon)
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (by Terry A. Gray). A well-maintained page of resources.
• Yahoo Shakespeare (always useful -- but resist the advertisements for other people's essays)
• Voice of the Shuttle Renaissance & 17th Century (Good entry to other sites of interest).
• HUMBUL (Humanities Bulletin, Oxford) gateway
• The home page for the Americal Renaissance Society
• Shakespeare Illustrated (a scholarly and growing collection).
  • Stage history in Hamlet (an example from Shakespeare Illustrated).

Literature and drama

• An excellent general page of pointers to literary resources maintained by Jack Lynch.
• Check out what's happening at UVic's Phoenix Theatre. . .
• The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities at Rutgers University

Hypertext, computers and texts

• The University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Center is a model for the kind of support needed by those working in the Humanities.
• TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) is a consortium of six Canadian universites dedicated to the enhancement of tools for the analysis of texts. Go to its site at UVic, or at McMaster University
• One of the best reviewed jumplists is Geoffrey Rockwell's at McMaster: Hypertext Places, http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~htp/
• HyperJournal. http://econwpa.wustl.edu/~hyperjrn/contents.htm
• Nancy Kaplan has an ongoing discussion about hypertext in hypertext
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) does a lot of mainly non-Humanities hypertext things.
• The journal Computers & Texts, now online: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/
• Information about another key journal in the area, Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be found on the publisher's Web page, http://llc.oupjournals.org/
• HTML Documentation.
• A good HTML on-line tutorial.

Web teaching and learning

• The UVic English Department's Writer's Guide
• An addendum with information on citing sources on the Internet
• Strunk's Elements of Style