General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)

Absolute Shakespeare is one of the most essential resources for Shakespeare scholars. This site provides not only the full texts of Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and plays, but also the most frequently referred quotes, biography of William Shakespeare, theatre history, and so on. Rather plain text images, but definitely easy to view with not many flashes or clickings. Content is thoroughly examined for the academic viewers. For example, in Summaries, this site serves the detailed summaries divided by act and ideal introduction commented.

This is useful for both studying and teaching materials including summaries, study guides, essays and quizzes. To be efficient, Shakespeare's the most famous 10 plays are separately listed on the right, providing a quick and easy guide with plot summary, commentary, character analysis and essays. All valuable contents are written by editors of the site, not linked to other cites.
Some pictures inspired by Shakespeare's works are interesting but there are only a few. The general but short introduction for Globe theatre is helpful. This site also lists all of the film adaptations of Shakespeare's works, over 250 movies up to the year 2000.

This site is especially recommendable for the students who want to find useful information on Shakespeare in one site. This is ABSOLUTE as it is called.

URL : http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, plays, sonnets, quotes, biography, academic, summary

General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

This is one of the best annotated guides to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Its contents are classified into Shakespeare's history, works, theatre, criticism, and other sources, added performance and festival information on a separate page. Furthermore, you can get as many site links as possible with a short annotation, and its range covers Renaissance literature and theatre, not only Shakespeare.

In the Works section, Study Guides will be very helpful for both teachers and students; providing various study materials such as SparkNotes and a larger series of lectures. In the Criticism section, you can access current lists of Journals and collections such as Early Modern literary Studies (EMLS), English Literary History and Renaissance Forum, and Historical Criticism throughout our literary history from Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Dr. Johnson , Matthew Arnold to William Hazlitt. Introducing Criticism of The Sonnets, this site starts with a guide to the sonnet expanding their explanation further.

If you are in a hurry, you can go right to Best Sites, where all the best sites are shown in a sight mentioned other pages. They are categorized according to the main manu, so it is very convenient to find out useful information.

URL : http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, works, life, theatre, criticism, best sites, renaissance

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

The Voice of the Shuttle began in 1994 to introduce websites to humanists. The site aims to provide a brief and structured annotated guide to online resources, so that viewers can easily get access to the selected sites from a vast overflow of information on the Web.

This site has listed about 28 contents in alphabetical order. For example, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Cultural Studies, History, Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies etc..
Another lists they have are the resources list, which have links to academies, museums and libraries, journals and conferences.

The contents linked here are Literature (in English). In Literature section, there are many other pages linked divided into centuries. This page is about the Renaissance and the 17th century.
This site has linked other important and useful sites that provide general information about the Renaissance and the 17th century period. They also have links to sites of major authors of that period, such as Sir Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Johnson, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton and William Shakespeare. There are many sites linked to Shakespeare in different categories.
Then they have links to cultural and historical contexts and criticism sites. One interesting link is the link to some course syllabi from Brown University. Their Women Writers project course was about women writers' texts in the Renaissance, which are unfamiliar to many of us.
The page also has links to journals (Renaissance Literature), listservs & newsgroups (Renaissance Literature), and conferences.

This site has one of the best set of links to the Renaissance and the 17th century. The design is simple and very well organized so that viewers can easily get what they want.

URL : http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, 17th century, renaissance

English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->Contemporary

Subcategory of Postcolonialweb (http://www.postcolonialweb.org/index.html)

The contents of this site are divided into Essays on his works, Visual images, Themes, Characterization, Setting, Imagery and Narrative.

Biographical information is written by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University. It is brief but it is a good start to know who Graham Swift is and about his best books.

The site contains critical reception published in various book review sections. You can find the critical reception about Learning to Swim / Out of This World / The Sweet Shop Owner / Shuttlecock / Waterland and learn how the public reacted to Swift's works when they were released.
If you are more interested in the specific analysis of each book, go directly to the Works site. It deals with The Sweet-Shop Owner, 1980; Shuttlecock, 1981; Learning to Swim and Other Stories, 1982; Waterland, 1983; Out of this World, 1988; Ever After, 1991; and Last Orders, 1996.
The section of Literary relations contains rich contents to connect Graham Swift with other great writers in literary history such as Dickens, Wordsworth and Rushdie. Therefore, if you are looking for the exact information on how Swift reflects what he learned from the literary background, this section will really be helpful.
In the History section, unfortunately, most of the content deals with the history revealed in Waterland, which tells the history of three generations of a brewery family and their relations with the town and the development of the town as the time goes by.
Are you looking for Themes in a specific work of Graham Swift? Then go to Themes and you'll find out a starting point to develop.

This site is well constructed but it is not possible to search keywords or phrases within the sites, which means you have to surf the sites until you find what you want.

URL : http://www.postcolonialweb.org/uk/gswift/gsov.html

Keyword(s) : Contemporary British Writer, Graham Swift, Last Orders, Postmodernism, Critical, Critical theory

General Resources->Digital Repositories
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

African American Literature Bookclub is dedicated to Black Books. There is a list of the hundreds of writers profiled on this site. For some readers who want to find more information about an author, there are search engines found at the bottom of each AALBC.com page.
Moreover, bookreviews, author's interview materials, videos, articles related to books, literary events schedules and African American film&DVD reviews are provided. Simply, this is a site that shows almost all achievements of Black Literarure.

URL : http://aalbc.com/

Keyword(s) : african american, book review