General
Literature
Online
Books
Lists of
Authors
Individual
Authors
Poetry
Literary
Criticism
Mythology &
Folklore
Medieval
Literature
English
Literature
Shakespeare/Elizabethan
Theatre
American
Literature
Writing & Grammar
Media
Reading
Lists
Theatre/Drama
General
Literature
- Literary
Resources on the Net - Rutgers' literary links
- Bibliomania
- over 2000 classic texts online including fiction, poetry, drama
and short stories; study guides, summaries and biographies also
provided
- NovelGuide
- literary analysis of some classic novels
- Internet Classics
Archive - 441 works of classical literature (Greek,
Roman, Persian, Chinese, etc.) in translation
- High
School English - vocabulary, spelling, grammar,
writing, poetry, literature and public speaking links
- LiteraryHistory.com - information on literary eras as well as individual authors
- Literary Resources on the Net - numerous literary links
- Literary
Index - links to many important literary sites on the
web
- Today in
Literature - "a calendar of engaging stories about
books, writers and events in literary history"
- Literary
Locales - places of importance to authors
- Camelot
Project - information about Arthurian texts, legends,
and images
- English
Literature Page - Voice of the Shuttle links to
Literary sources
- Books and Literature Information - authors, book clubs, criticism, electronic texts, reviews and general book links
- Children's
Literature Web Guide - children's authors, books lists,
resources for writers, stories on the web and other children's
literature links
- Pulitzer
Prizes - search for winners and finalists by date or
name plus the history of the prize
- Literature
Awards Winners - literary winners of the Caldecot,
Newbery, National Book Award, Pulitzer, and the Nobel; includes
search by topic
- Literary
Birthdays - search for birthdays of literary figures by month
- Classic
Literature - links to classic literature from
About.com
- Contemporary
Literature - links to contemporary literature from
About.com
- Gale
Free Resources - poetry and literature links from Gale
Group
- Literary Index - index to print Gale literature series
- High
School Literature Sites - lengthy list of literature
links from the Homework Center of the Multnomah County
Library
- High
School English - English links from High School Hub
including grammar, vocabulary, and literature
- Voice of the
Shuttle - comprehensive listing of humanities links
with English and World literature
- Glossary
of Literary Terminology
Online
Books
Authors
- Authors
on the Web - author biographies
- Author Yellow Pages - search for authors on the web
- Author
Webliography - list of web sites for authors (mostly
"literary" authors)
- Yahoo
Authors - Yahoo's links to classics, folk tales,
horror, fiction, mystery, Native American, nonfiction, literary
movements, dramatists, poets, romance, science fiction, and Young
Adult writers
- High
School Literature - Multnomah Public Library's links to
authors and other literary information
- American
Authors on the Web - locate authors by time
period
- Authors 4
Teens - information on Young Adult authors
- Author Connections - YA author links from the Bettendorf Public Library
- Links to
Literature - search for author links from extensive
list (over 9,000)
- American
Writers - C-SPAN's investigation of major American
writers
- Celebration
of Women Writers
- Books
'n'Bytes - search for upcoming publicationsand search
all authors for birthdates and lists of books published
- Interviews
with Writers of Fiction
- Read the Book? Meet the Author - author web sites compiled by Naples High School LMC
Individual
Authors
see also Shakespeare
links
Literary
Criticism & Book Reviews
- IPL Literary
Criticism - criticism and author links searchable by
name, title of work, country of origin and time period
- NY
Times Book Review - search the reviews from the NY
Times
- Atlantic
Online - Classic Reviews - reviews from The Atlantic on
classic pieces of literature
- Reading
Rants! - reviews of books for Young Adult
readers
- Teenreads.com
- book reviews, author links, award winners and lists of books on
many topics
- Allreaders.com
- choose from hundreds of plots, themes, characters, settings,
authors or genres to search
- Reader's
Robot - brief book reviews by everyday individuals;
searchable by author, title or genre
- Current
Book Reviews
- BookSpot.com - award winners, book lists, and other book links
Poetry
Mythology
& Folklore
- Bulfinch's
Mythology - gods, heroes, Arthurian legend, and the
Romances of the Middle Ages in this famous mythological
resource
- Encyclopedia
Mythica - folklore, mythology, bestiary, heroes,
genealogy plus an image gallery
- Folklore
and Mythology Electronic Texts - myths, legends,
folklore and fairy tale links
- The
Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies provided by
Georgetown University
- Legends -
essays and information on the legends of Arthur, Robin Hood, the
Three Musketeers and other tales of knights and heroism
- Camelot
Project - Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and
basic information
- Myth-NET- look up gods and heroes of Greece and Rome
- Myth Web - gods, heroes, and an encyclopedia of mythology
- Myth*ing
Links - worldwide mythology and folklore
- Myths
and Legends - myths and legends from around the
world
- Dictionary
of Classical Mythology - mythological figures, genealogy, meaning
of names and pictures
- Columbia
Encyclopedia of Mythology
- Aesop's Fables
- Stories,
Folklore and Fairy Tales - collection of links on fairy
tales and folklore around the world
- Tales of Wonder - folk and fairy tales from around the world
- American
Folklore - historical, regional, ethnic and state
folklore plus tall tales
- Greek
Mythology Link - biographies, topics, peple
&places, dictionary, images plus a search box
- Greek Mythology - From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
- Norse
Mythology - mythic figures, chronology, and information
on the tales of the Norse
- Mythography - Greek, Roman and Celtic mythology and art
- World
Mythology - search for myths by culture and country
- World Myths and Legends in Art
- Encyclopedia
of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts
- Etymological
Dictionary of Classical Mythology - classical
influences on names, astronomy, calendars, phrases and pop
culture
- Mythology in Modern Society - find out about mythological influences on companies, words, planets, names and even pop culture of today
- Andersen
Fairy Tales - fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen
- Grimm
Fairy Tales - the Brothers Grimm and the tales they
wrote
- Urban Legends Reference
Pages - rumors, falsehoods, misinformation and fake
celebrity gossip are explored and exposed
- Museum of
Hoaxes - hoaxes throughout history (may be blocked)
- Classics Page - Greek and Latin Literature and mythology
Medieval
Literature
English
Literature
- Victorian
Web - authors, genres, theater, social history and
other topics from the Victorian Era
- Dictionary of
Victorian London
- Victorian
Times Project - health, transportation, education,
trade unions, housing, industry, working conditions, biographies,
and timelines for the Victorian era
- Victorian
Literature Website
- The Regency Page - helpful when looking for British novels, British Women Writers, and British history from 1660-1800
- Luminarium - Medieval, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Literature
- Literary
Resources - Victorian British - links to many Victorian
sites
- English History and Heritage - information on The Middle Ages, the Victorian Age, Elizabethan life (see Tudor link), and other eras in British history
- Yahoo
Victorian Literature Links
- Victorian England: An Introduction - descriptions of life in England from 1837-1901
- Nineteenth
Century - Google links to information on the 19th
Century including child labor, medicine, society and more
- Dickens London - find what it was like in London in the early 1800's plus other links to Dicken's information
- Sixteenth
Century Renaissance English Literature - English
authors from 1485 - 1603
- Encyclopedia of British History 1500-1950 - look up information on the Monarchy, child labour, education, Parliament, Women's Rights, literature, and other topics in British history
- Elizabethan
Costume Page - Elizabethan attire
- Cambridge
History of English Literature - history of English
Literature from the early Romances to the Victorian Age
- Sixteenth
Century Renaissance English Literature
- English
Literature: Early 17th Century
- Virtual
Renaissance - tour the Renaissance times
- The Romantic
Era - poets of the Romantic era
- Romantics
Unbound - information on Romantic writers, artists and
musicians
- 19th Century British and Irish Authors - links to information on English and Irish writers such as Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, Brontes, Trollope, Eliot, Rossetti, Carroll, Hardy, James, Kipling, Doyle, Shaw, Stevenson, Wilde and many others
- British
Poetry 1780-1910 - electronic poetry
- Modern British
Poetry
- HomeworkCentral:
British Literature - British authors, genres,
mythology, nationality, and divisions by Century
- British
Literature Resources
Shakespeare/Elizabethan
Theatre
- Life in
Elizabethan England - daily life, games, food, money,
religion, language, occupations, London, fashion, clothing,
children, pastimes, education, heraldry, the nobility and common
people of Elizabethan England
- Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet - extensive range of Shakespeare information
- Elizabethan Era - information on the era including the food, costumes, music, theater, and sports
- Elizabethan England - high school site that examines Elizabethan historical figures, the arts and architecture, Shakespeare and his theatre, important events, and daily life
- Internet Shakespeare Editions - links to his poetry, plays, his life and Elizabethan times
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare - online texts of his plays
- Shakespeare
Online - biography, analysis, essays, theater, plots,
sonnets and other Shakespeare-related information
- Discover Shakespeare - Shakespeare's life, works and theatre from the famous Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
- William Shakespeare at eNotes - his life, his world, a chronology, pictures, the Globe, particular plays and all things Shakespeare
- Absolute
Shakespeare - information on Shakespere's plays,
sonnets, poems, quotes, life and the Globe Theatre; includes
pictures and a timeline
- Shakespeare
Illustrated - the plays, the artwork of the 19th
Century, Shakespeare criticism and productions of the
plays
- Shakespeare
Theme Page - list of Shakespeare links
- Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to William Shakespeare
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) - long listing of links to
Shakespeare information
- Shakespeare,
Chill with Will - useful site for students
- Shakespeare Resource
Center - Shakespeare's life and works, summaries of his
plays, the Globe Theatre and Elizabethan England
- The
Shakespeare Mystery - a PBS site that explores the
mystery surrounding the authorship of the plays
- Stratford-Upon
Avon - information on the place where Shakespeare was
born
- Old Globe
Theatre History
- Shakespeare's Globe
- ArtsEdge: Discovering Romeo and Juliet - information on Shakespeare, Elizabethan Theatre and specifically, Romeo and Juliet
- Elizabethan
Costuming Page
- Shakespeare
in Delaware Park - check the schedule for the local
performances
American
Literature
Writing & Grammar
- Creative
Writing for Teens - helpful writing tips targeting
teens from About.com
- Guide to Grammar
and Writing - a college site to assist with writing
technique and grammar including an Ask Grammar link
- Grammar Bytes - parts of speech and grammatical terms plus grammar exercises and rules
- Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant - help with grammar, punctuation, sentence
structure, organizing, revising, editing, and thesis
writing
- Purdue University
Online Writing Lab - OWL writing help with tutorials
and handouts such as Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
ones
- Blue Book of Grammar
and Punctuation - online reference book for help with
grammar and punctuation
- Writer's Resource
Center - help with the craft of writing
- Great Links for
Christian Writers - useful tips for any
writers
- Writer's
Workshop - resources for students and teachers
- EServer - essays
and writings on or in fiction, culture, drama, feminism,
television, history, government, music, poetry, etc
- The Elements of Style - grammar rules and guidelines
- Basic Guide to Essay Writing
- Writers
Market - information for writers interested in getting
published
- Common Errors
in English - find common grammar mistakes and correct
usage
- Poetry Today
Online - help with writing and publishing
poetry
Media
Reading
Lists/Book Lists
Theater/Drama
- Internet Broadway
Database - search current shows or historical list of
theater productions
- Musicals 101 - a "Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film" - includes a history of musicals, musical production and famous stars and producers of Broadway
- Theatre History.com - includes topics such as Ancient, Medieval, American, Asian, British, French, German, Irish, Italian, Russian and Spanish Theatre plus online scripts and other theatre information
- Theatre History on the Web - links to sources on Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, 17th - 19th Centuries and Contemporary Theatre
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