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!
Selected Journals & Databases
- Appositions∗
- Cahiers Élisabéthains
- Comitatus
- Early Modern Culture∗
- Early Modern Literary Studies∗
- Early Modern Women
- Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
- Journal of Early Modern History
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Journal of the Northern Renaissance
- Laberinto∗
- 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 Hub
- 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
- Renaissance & Reformation in Europe
- USC Libraries’ Printing: Renaissance & Reformation exhibit
- Women in World History: Early Modern Period
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?
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
Selected Journals & Databases
Academic & Expert Sites