Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts

This section is a gathering of links to select electronic texts of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century materials which are on the Internet, as well as others which have bearing upon this time period.

Quicklink Index to This Page:

• Select Materials:
  • Scholarly Electronic Text Series and Collections Published on the Internet;
  • Electronic Versions of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Century Texts, From the Internet;
  • Related Medieval Electronic Texts, From the Internet;
  • Related Classical Electronic Texts, From the Internet.
• Other Materials and Resources:
  • Lexicography;
  • Catalogues;
  • Text Repositories;
  • Multimedia Databases.

• Renaissance Electronic Texts (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1994-).
• Representative Poetry(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962-63, reprinted with corrections 1967). Electronic text edited by Ian Lancashire (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1994).

• Anonymous.
  • Gammer Gurton's Needle (SGML; Oxford Text Archive).
  • Gammer Gurton's Needle (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Gammer Gurton's Needle (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • King Edward the Third (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Bacon, Francis.
  • Essays (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The New Atlantis (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • The New Atlantis (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • The New Atlantis (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Behn, Aphra.
  • The City Heiress (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • The City Heiress (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The Rover, Part 1 (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • The Rover, Part 2 (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
• Bunyan, John.
  • Pilgrim's Progress (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • Pilgrim's Progress (ASCII; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
• Campion, Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Carew, Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
  • Don Quixote (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Chapman, George.
  • The Odyssey (trans.) (HTML; Project Bartleby, Columbia).
• Crashaw, Richard.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Daniel, Samuel.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Descartes, René.
  • Discours de la méthode (HTML; University of Virginia)
  • Discourse on Reason (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
• Donne, John.
  • Death's Duel (HTML; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
  • Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (HTML, RTF; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Dorset, earl of, Charles Sackville.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Dorset, earl of, Thomas Sackville.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Drayton, Michael.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Dryden, John.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Dunbar, William
  • The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Dyer, Sir Edward.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Elizabeth I.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Elyot, Thomas.
  • The Governor (HTML; University of Michigan).
• Etherege, Sir George.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Finch, Anne, countess of Winchilsea.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Gay, John.
  • The Beggar's Opera (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • The Beggar's Opera (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • The Beggar's Opera (ASCII; Oregon).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
  • The Beggar's Opera (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Gower, John
  • Confession Amantis (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Greene, Robert.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Harriot, Thomas
  • A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (HTML; Melissa Kennedy, University of Virginia).
• Henryson, Robert
  • Minor Poems (HTML; University of Virginia)
  • The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (HTML; University of Virginia)
  • Orpheus and Eurydice (HTML; University of Virginia)
  • The Testament of Cresseid (HTML; University of Virginia)
• Herbert, George.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Herrick, Robert.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Hobbes, Thomas.
  • Leviathan (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Hooker, Richard
  • A Learned Discourse of Justification (ASCII; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College)
• Hoskyns, John.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Howard, Henry, earl of Surrey.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Hull, Thomas.
  • The Comedy of Errors (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • The Comedy of Errors (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Jonson, Ben.
  • The Alchemist (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Bartholomew Fair (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Bartholomew Fair (SGML; Oxford Text Archives).
  • Bartholomew Fair (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Catiline (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon/OTA).
  • Catiline (SGMl; Oxford Text Archives).
  • Catiline (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Cynthia's Revels (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Epicoene (SGML; Oxford Text Archive).
  • Epicoene (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Epicoene (HTML; Florida).
  • Epicoene (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Every Man in his Humour (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon/OTA).
  • Every Man in his Humour (SGML; Oxford Text Archive).
  • Every Man in his Humour (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • The New Inn (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Sejanus (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Sejanus (SGML; Oxford Text Archive).
  • Sejanus (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Volpone (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon/OTA).
  • Volpone (SGML; Oxford Text Archives).
  • Volpone (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Killigrew, Anne.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Locke, John.
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • A Letter Concerning Toleration (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Second Treatise on Government (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
• Lovelace, Richard.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Lyly, John.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Machiavelli, Niccolo.
  • The Prince (HTML; MIT).
• Malory, Thomas
  • Le Morte Darthur, Volume 1 (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Le Morte Darthur, Volume 2 (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Marlowe, Christopher.
  • Faustus (link out of service).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Marvell, Andrew.
  • Miscellaneous Poems (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Miscellaneous Poems (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Middleton, Thomas
  • Blurt, Master Constable (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
  • A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
  • The Family of Love [with Thomas Dekker and Lording Barry] (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
  • The Phoenix (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
  • A Trick to Catch the Old One (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
  • Your Five Gallants (HTML; Chris Cleary, University of Virginia)
• Milton, John.
  • Web Pages:
    • Milton-L Home Page (HTML; Richmond)
    • John Milton Page (HTML; Milton Grimleigh)
    • Milton Quarterly (HTML; Ohio)
  • Individual Works:
    • Paradise Lost (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
    • Paradise Lost (1667) (HTML; University of Michigan).
    • Paradise Lost (1667 (HTML; University of Virginia).
    • Paradise Regained (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
    • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Molière (Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste)
  • L'Avare (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Dom Juan où Le Festin de Pierre (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Le Tartuffe ou l'imposteur (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley.
  • Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (HTML; University of Virginia)
• Montaigne, Michel de.
  • Essays (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• More, Sir Thomas.
  • Utopia (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
• Mulcaster, Richard.
  • The Elementarie (HTML; University of Michigan).
• Nashe, Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Pascal, Blaise
  • La Machine arithmétique (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Peele, George.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Pope, Alexander.
  • The Dunciad (1729) (HTML; Maryland).
  • Essay on Criticism (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Essay on Man (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Moral Essay II (to a lady) (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon)
  • The Rape of the Lock (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Puttenham, George.
  • The Arte of English Poesie (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Racine, Jean
  • Athalie (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Ralegh, Sir Walter.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Randolph, Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Sackville, Charles, earl of Dorset.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Sackville, Thomas, earl of Dorset.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Sedley, Sir Charles.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Shakespeare, William.
  • Complete Works and Web Pages:
    • Moby Shakespeare (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
    • Renaissance Texts Research Centre (HTML; University of Reading).
    • Shakespeare Homepage (HTML; MIT).
    • Shakespeare Database Project(HTML; Münster)
  • Individual Works:
    • Hamlet (1603 Quarto) (HTML; University of Virginia).
    • Hamlet (1604 Quarto) (HTML; University of Virginia).
    • Hamlet (1623 Folio) (HTML; University of Virginia).
    • Henry V (HTML; Iowa)
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream (HTML; UNBC)
    • Twelfth Night (HTML; Carnegie Mellon).
    • Selected Poetry (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Sheridan, Thomas
  • The Intelligencer (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Sidney, Sir Philip.
  • Defence of Poesie (ASCII; Oregon).
  • Defence of Poesie (HTML; Oregon).
  • Lady of May (ASCII; Oregon).
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Silver, George
  • Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence (HTML; Greg Lindahl, University of Virginia).
  • Paradoxes of Defence (HTML; Greg Lindahl, University of Virginia).
• Spenser, Edmund.
  • Web Pages:
    • Edmund Spenser Home Page (HTML; Oregon)
    • Spenser Web (HTML; Washington University)
  • Individual Works:
    • Amoretti and Epithalamion (HTML; University of Michigan).
    • Amoretti and Epithalamion (HTML; University of Virginia).
    • Astrophel, etc. (HTML; Oregon)
    • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (HTML; Oregon)
    • Daphnaïda (HTML; Oregon)
    • Epithalamion (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
    • The Faerie Queene (HTML; Oregon).
    • The Faerie Queene (SGML; Virginia)
    • The Foure Hymnes (HTML; Oregon)
    • Prothalamian (HTML; Oregon)
    • Shepheardes Calendar (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
    • Shepheardes Calendar (ASCII; Oregon).
    • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Sterne, Laurence.
  • A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (HTML; Oregon).
• Suckling, Sir John.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Surrey, earl of, Henry Howard.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Swift, Jonathan.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Traherne, Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Vaughan, Henry.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Rochester, earl of, John Wilmot.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Wilmot, John, earl of Rochester.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Winchilsea, countess of, Anne Finch.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).
• Wroth, Lady Mary
  • Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus (HTML; University of Michgan).
  • Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Wyatt, Sir Thomas.
  • Selected Works (Representative Poetry, Toronto).

• Anonymous
  • An Anthology of Chancery English (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Beowulf (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon)
  • The Council of Remiremont (HTML; University of Pennsylvania).
  • Everyman (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ASCII; Carnegi Mellon)
  • The Harley Lyrics (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The Alliterative Morte Arthure (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Octavian (Cambridge MS.) (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Octavian (Lincoln MS.) (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The Owl and the Nightingale (Cotton MS.) (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The Owl and the Nightingale (Jesus College MS.) (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Pearl (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Sawles Warde (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The Siege of Jerusalem (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The Towneley Plays (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • The York Plays (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Boccacio, Giovanni.
  • Decameron (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Decameron (HTML; Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia)
• Boethius.
  • The Consolation of Philosophy (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Chaucer, Geoffrey.
  • Canterbury Tales (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • Canterbury Tales (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Individual Tales (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Troilus and Criseyde (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Dante.
  • Vita Nuova (HTML; Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia)
  • La Divina Commedia (HTML; Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia)
  • Epistle to Cangrande (English) (HTML; Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia)
  • Epistle to Cangrande (Latin) (HTML; Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia)
• Langland, William
  • The Vision of Piers Plowman (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Layamon
  • Brut (Cotton Caligula) (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Brut (Cotton Otho) (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Paston Family
  • Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, Part I (HTML; University of Virginia).

• Aeschylus.
  • Complete (Existing) Plays (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Aristophanes.
  • Complete (Existing) Plays (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Aristotle.
  • History of Animals (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Metaphysics (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Nicomachean Ethics (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • On the Heavens (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • On the Soul (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Physics (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Poetics (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Politics (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Rhetoric (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Augustine, Saint.
  • Confessions (HTML, RTF, pdf, Hypercard; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
  • Enchiridion (HTML, RTF, pdf; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
• Bibles.
  • King James Version (ASCII; Minnesota).
  • King James Version, Searchable (SGML; University of Virginia).
  • Jerome's Latin Vulgate, other Bibles, and Search Facilities (ARTFL Project, Chicago).
  • Luther Bibel (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Revised Standard Version, Searchable (SGML; University of Virginia).
• Euripides.
  • Complete (Existing) Plays. (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Homer.
  • The Iliad (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The Odyssey (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The Odyssey (HTML; Project Bartleby, Columbia).
• Ignatius of Loyola, Saint.
  • Spiritual Exercises (HTML, RTF; Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College).
• Koran
  • Searchable Koran (test mode) (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Ovid.
  • Metamorphoses (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Plato.
  • Charmides (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • Critias (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Crito (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • Crito (HTML; University of Michigan).
  • Crito (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Euthydemus (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Euthyphro (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Gorgias (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Ion (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Laches (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Laws (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Meno (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Parmenides (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Phaedo (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Phaedrus (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Philebus (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Protagoras (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The Republic (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • The Republic (HTML; University of Virginia).
  • Sophist (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Statesman (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Symposium (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Theaetetus (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • Timaeus (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Pliny
  • Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Plutarch.
  • Lives (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Sophocles.
  • The Oedipus Trilogy (ASCII; Carnegie Mellon).
  • Oedipus the King (HTML; University of Michigan)
  • Oedipus the King (HTML; University of Virginia).
• Tacitus, Cornelius.
  • The Annals (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
  • The Histories (ASCII; Virginia Tech).
• Virgil.
  • Works (ASCII; Internet Wiretap).
  • Aeneid (HTML; MIT).
  • Georgics (HTML; MIT).
  • Eclogues (ASCII; Virginia Tech).

• Lexicography:
• Michigan Early Modern English Materials
• Catalogs and Collection Points:
• Alex: Electronic Text Catalogue (Oxford).
• Alex: Electronic Text Catalogue (HTML; via NCSU).
• Library Resources on the Internet
• The On-Line Books Page
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Text Repositories:
• Association des Bibliophiles Universels (Texts in French).
• Brown Women Writers Project.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• CMU English Server (Carnegie Mellon)
• Dartmouth Dante Project.
• Electronic Texts from Rice University.
• Electronic Texts from CCAT (University of Pennsylvania).
• The Eris Project (Virginia Tech).
• Hyperbooks - Hypercard Classics, Macintosh (Dartmouth).
• Project Bartleby, Columbia University
• Project Gutenberg
• Texts from the MALIN (Medieval Latin) Project (Internet Wiretap).
• Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae: The Curia Medieval Irish Manuscript Project
• The Internet Wiretap.
• University of Michigan English Language and Literature Collections
• University of Virginia Electronic Texts (All).
  • Search the Middle English Collection
  • British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
• Valdosta State University Electronic Texts.
• Multimedia Databases, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities:
• The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive.
  • Database
  • Searchable Index
• The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive.
  • Database
  • Searchable Index
• The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity.
  • Database
  • Searchable Index
• A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Printers Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson (London: 1616).
  • Database
  • Searchable Index

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