There are thousands of literary sites on the World Wide Web.  We will endeavor to review the best of them, thus saving you time, trouble, and click count. 

This page provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.  This site is not intended to be an exhaustive index of all literary resources; rather it functions as a review of the most important literary resources and collections of literary links that proliferate on the Internet.  We would love to receive your reviews on the literary websites. 

    

Some Sites on Shakespeare

 

 

http//shakespeare.mit.edu

Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

 

www.shakespeare-online.com

In-depth and accurate Shakespeare information, including free play analysis, Shakespeare's biography, essays, answers to common Shakespeare questions

 

www.online-literature.com/shakespeare

William Shakespeare. Biography of William Shakespeare and a searchable collection of works

 

http://absoluteshakespeare.com

Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre

 

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html

Shakespeare's Life and Times introduces you to the world Shakespeare lived and worked in

 

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html

You can read Shakespeare for free and learn about his life,time and works,besides different discussions on these topics.

 

 

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/criticism.htm

Of all the original pages comprising Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, this page has grown the most

 

http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html

The best, freely available Shakespeare criticism on the Internet may be found at the journal Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS)

 

http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html

Shakespeare reference page at Bartleby.com, publisher of thousands of free online classics of reference, literature, and nonfiction

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/

The Internet Public Library has an entire section dedicated to online Shakespeare editions and commentary

 

http://www.bardweb.net/study.html

The mission of the Shakespeare Resource Center is simple: help people who need to research Shakespeare.

 

http://www.bardweb.net/

You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.

 

Sites on Medieval & Renaissance Literature

 

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/

Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature. Featuring Geoffrey Chaucer ... Also includes sections on medieval lyrics and medieval morality plays.

 

http://www.medieval-life.net/literature_main.htm

This site gives you some elementary information aboul Medieval life,literature,food,famines and other basic issues.

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#lit2

Here you can get your hands on  full texts of medieval sources

 

http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

If you are looking for a collection of various resources on Medieval studies,visit this site.

 

http://omacl.org/

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization." Dozens of medieval texts, most in translation

 

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

A comprehensive guide to British literature of the Renaissance with over 100 original pages, biographies, and works never before published on the web

 

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html

visiting this site you can some preliminary information on General Characteristics of the Renaissance

 

 

Sites on Literary Criticism

 

http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/rr.html

Here you can see various positions regarding reader-response criticism.

 

http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/index.htm

Click on online essays to find some interesting essays.

 

http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/content.html

Read some great articles by Derrida on this site .You’ll see an excellent overview of key links for deconstruction on the Internet.

 

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/psycho.html#psyfem

An introduction to psychoanalysis and a good selection of suggested readings

 

http://www.neiu.edu/~edepartm/dep/profs/scherm/html/psychcrit.htm

An overview of psychoanalysis and with a comparison to other literary schools of criticism

 

http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm

An excellent timeline of Major Critical Theories in US

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/femtheory.html

You’ll find an overview of feminist theory on this site.

 

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/DEBCLASS/forg.htm

“Marxist Literary Theories” provides a sound overview of multiple Marxist principles and theories

 

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/marxist.html

“Marxist Criticism” includes an introduction to Marxist theory, Marxist Critics. and additional web links

 

http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/nhistexp.htm

Reviews the principles and theories of New Historicism

 

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/newhistoricism/

“Introduction to New Historicism” that includes a good introduction ,terms, literary application, and additional links

 

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/

Great introductory guide to critical theory

 

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/

Great introductory guide to critical theory

 

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

A solid glossary of terms used in discussing literary theory and includes an index of primary entries

 

http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

A good overview of modern literary theory

 

http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70

Avery good starter reading of contemporary literary theory

 

http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/index.htm

Read some online essays

 

http://www.philosopher.uk/posttr.htm

An overview of poststructuralism, including a discussion of postmodernism, Michel Foucault’s Genealogy of  Knowledge, & Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction

 

http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/digests/d104.html

Poststructuralism in theory and practice in the English classroom

 

http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/1derrida.html

A comparative essay of structuralism and poststuracturalism

 

http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/struct.htm

An excellent structuralist website; includes structuralism’s premises, key words, leading figures, methodologies, criticisms, & sources

 

 

 

Sites on English Literature (General)

 

http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp

This site offers a bunch of classic novels in nice pdf formats.Don’t miss it.

 

http://thomondgate.net/html/essays_pg1.html

You can download a number of articles on different topics from this site.

 

 http://www.luminarium.org/

Luminarium is a comprehensive anthology of English literature.

 

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-305321.html

A good number of free books and essays are available for you to read here.

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/

Download books for free and enjoy literature essays study guides.

 

 http://www.123helpme.com/

Although most of the essays here are cashed,the red essays are free of charge.

 

 

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