The
Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum
Built on the orders of
Henry
VIII between 1510 and 1511. After a long and successful period of
service
she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in the
Solent in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were one of the seminal
events
in the history of nautical archaeology.
Drama
Resources
See
also the section: Authors, Writers, Poets, and Literary People
A collection of links
to
resources related to the individual people who create literature of all
types, including playrights and dramatists.
Readers'
Theatre Scripts
A collection of
scripts
for readers' theatre provided by storyteller, Aaron Shepard. Available
for free educational use.
El
Teatro Campesino
Home of El Teatro
Campesino,
where you can find Teatro's colorful History and optimistic Future, its
Founding Director Luis Valdez, and meet Teatro Campesino's newest
generation
of creative forces, Chicanos on the Run.
The
London Theatre Guide
An On-Line Guide to
London,
England Theatre.
The
Dramatic Exchange
The Dramatic Exchange
is
dedicated to archiving and distributing scripts, a place for
playwrights
to "publish" and distribute their plays, a place for producers to find
new plays they might want to produce, and a place for anyone who is
interested
in drama to browse.
Books
and Book Related Resources
The
Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)
Online Medieval and
Classical
Library (OMACL) is an archive being assembled as a service to the
Internet.
A free and easy way to access some of the most important literary works
of Classical and Medieval civilization.
The
Modern English Collection
Includes online access
to
a wide variety of boooks, and also magazine fiction by noted authors,
at
the University of Virginia.
The
On-line Books Page
This is the front page
for
an index of hundreds of on-line books. It also points to some common
repositories
of on-line books and other documents.
The
Oxford Text Archive
Contains a vast number
of
texts and documents from the great writers of the English language. Not
very easy to use, so please look carefully at the pages for their
instructions.
Not all texts are currently online and downloadable, so you may not
retrieve
all that are listed. Searchable by author and title. Well worth the
effort!
Romantic
Circles
This is a Website
devoted
to the study of Romantic-period (mainly 19th Century) literature and
culture.
Includes many full-text sources.
Book Reviews
and Criticism
Book
Page
Mostly brief book
reviews
on a very wide variety of books and authors, plus interviews with
leading
current authors.
The
Complete Review
This book review site
brings
together reviews from a wide variety of online book review sources.
Reviews
Online, From New Pages
Links to many
excellent
sources of book reviews. "The New Pages Weblog and Guides, though not
ignoring
the best of the mainstream sources, focus on the alternatives -- the
work
of smaller, independent publishers."
Online
Literary Criticism Collection
Leads to over 1,000
websites
with criticism and biographical information about authors and their
works.
These sites are screened and selected for their usefulness, and are
generally
of a very high quality.
Poetry,
Poetry Archives and Collections
Archives and Collections
Academy
of American Poets
The "Find a Poet"
section
currently includes biographies, photos, and other information on more
than
450 poets, and the "Find a Poem" section includes more than twelve
hundred
poems, with new ones being added. Many are available in audio format as
well as text. See also this similar, but less rich site: Poetry
Society of America
American
Verse Project
The American Verse
Project
is an electronic archive of approximately 175 volumes of American verse
published prior to 1920. Search features include: Simple, Proximity,
Boolean,
plus a Word Index. You will find a browsing section if you click on the
link: Browse the American Verse Project Texts.
Anthology
of Modern American Poetry
A companion to the
text,
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, published by Oxford University
Press.
The 161 Poet
Companion
Sites Section includes "excerpts from previously
published
analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations,
manuscripts,
drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on
poetics,
interviews, mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book
reviews, archival resources, and study questions."
American
& English Poetry: 1250–1920
This superb poetry
collection
(at Bartleby.Com) contains numerous separate collections of poetry. The
collections may be searched by keyword, and browsed via: Indexes to
Poems:
Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line. Designed to be easy to browse
and
enjoy, this site seems to be steadily growing.
Audio Poets Online:
Here
are sites that have poet/poetry information, much of it in audio format.
