Welcome to our guide on Early Modern Literature, where you will find tools to help you locate resources to further your research, whether it be on Early Modern Literature in general or on a more specialized topic like Shakespeare and Milton. Please note that the lists on these pages are not exhaustive lists on their topics. If you know of another good resource – or would like to see a page on another topic not currently included in this guide – let us know! Likewise, we would appreciate it if you would notify us of any dead links that you come across on these pages. Thank you!
General Resources
Selected Journals & Databases
- Appositions∗
- Arts and Humanities Commons
- Comitatus
- Early Modern Culture∗
- Early Modern Literary Studies∗
- Early Modern Women
- Folger Digital Image Collection
- Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
- Journal of Early Modern History
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Journal of the Northern Renaissance
- Laberinto∗
- Perseus Collection: Renaissance Materials
- Renaissance Forum∗
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Renaissance Studies
- Restoration
- Sixteenth Century Journal
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Upstart∗
- Viator
General Sites
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
- Folgerpedia
- Folger Research on Twitter
- Folger Shakespeare Library Blog: The Collation
- Italian Renaissance
- Luminarium: Renaissance Literature
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
- Renaissance English Text Society
- Renaissance Society of America
- Sixteenth Century Society
- U of Oxford’s Not Shakespeare Podcast
Early Modern History Sites
- BBC’s Renaissance Secrets
- Center for Early Modern History
- Early Modern Commons
- Early Modern Resources
- Khan Academy: Renaissance & Reformation in Europe
- Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern World
- Museum of the History of Science’s The Garden, the Ark, the Tower and the Temple: Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
- UofSC Libraries’ Printing: Renaissance & Reformation exhibit
- Women in World History: Early Modern Period
Shakespeare
General Sites
- American Shakespeare Center
- Explore Shakespeare’s Works
- Languages of Shakespeare
- Open Source Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Documented
- Shakespeare Geek
- Shakespeare in the Choral Public Domain Library
- Shakespeare Online
- Shakespeare Resource Center
- Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
- What If Shakespeare HAD Written Old-English?
Podcasts
- Chop Bard
- Clear Shakespeare
- Folger Shakespeare Podcasts
- U of Oxford’s Approaching Shakespeare
- U of Oxford’s Shakespeare’s First Folio
Selected Journals & Databases
- Borrowers and Lenders∗
- Quarto∗
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Shakespeare Jahrbuch
- Shakespeare Quarterly
- Shakespeare Studies
- Folger Digital Editions
- Folger Digital Image Collection
- Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library @ UPenn
- Librivox – Shakespeare
- World Shakespeare Bibliography
Academic & Expert Sites
- Asian Shakespeare Association
- British Shakespeare Association
- European Shakespeare Research Association
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Folgerpedia
- German Shakespeare Society
- International Shakespeare Association
- International Shakespeare Conference
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Shakespeare Society of America
- Shakespeare Theatre Association
Milton
General Sites
- BBC Radio’s Milton
- British Milton Seminar
- Canada Milton Seminar
- IPL2’s John Milton Collection
- Luminarium’s John Milton page
- Milton Hyper-Concordance
- Milton-L Home Page
- Milton’s Cottage
- Paradise Lost (Morgan Library & Museum)
- Twickenham Press Audio Literary Downloads
- Milton Society
Selected Journals & Databases
- ELH
- Folger Digital Image Collection
- Librivox – Milton
- Milton Newsletter
- Milton Quarterly∗
- Milton Review∗
- Milton Studies