Directory of 17th Century Resources

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Resources for the study of seventeenth-century (1601-1700) British drama, poetry, and prose.

Subcategories

• Anger, Jane
• Behn, Aphra
• Browne, Thomas
• Bunyan, John
• Butler, Samuel
• Carew, Richard
• Carew, Thomas
• Cary, Elizabeth
• Cavendish, Margaret
• Chapman, George
• Cowley, Abraham
• Crashaw, Richard
• Dekker, Thomas
• Donne, John
• Dryden, John
• Etherege, George
• Fletcher, John
• Ford, John
• Herbert, George
• Herrick, Robert
• Jonson, Ben
• Lanyer, Aemilia
• Lovelace, Richard
• Marvell, Andrew
• Massinger, Philip
• Milton, John
• Otway, Thomas
• Philips, Katherine
• Shakespeare, William
• Shirley, James
• Speght, Rachel
• Vaughan, Henry
• Wroth, Mary
• Wycherley, William

Resources in This Category

• Celebration of Women Writers: 1601-1700

  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/1601-1700.html
  A collection of links to pages on a wide variety of seventeenth-century women writers.

• English Literature: Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)

  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
  Biographies, works, essays, and collected web resources for Donne, Bacon, Jonson, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Wroth, Carew, Lovelace, Suckling, Vaughan, Crashaw, and Waller.

• English Literature: Renaissance and Seventeenth Century

  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749
  Part of Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle project. Links to information on writers, criticism, journals, newsgroups, listservs, and conferences in early modern literary studies.

• Essays on Early Seventeenth-Century English Literature

  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm
  Links to full-text essays. Distinguishes between student essays and professional pieces.

• Gratiae Ludentes - A Renaissance Jestbook

  http://www.mun.ca/alciato/jests/jest1.html
  Prepared by students from the Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

• Jacobean Drama: Summaries

  http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/17cdrama.htm
  Synopses of major plays. From Professor An Sonjae of Sogang University, Seoul.

• Literary Resources: Renaissance

  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html
  Jack Lynch's index of resources for the study of Renaissance and seventeenth-century English literature.

• Otia Sacra

  http://www.presscom.co.uk/sixsev/otiasacra0.html
  Complete text of Mildmay Fane's 1648 book, with original illustrations.

• Poets' Graves

  http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/
  Poetry resource site listing the burial sites of major poets. Also includes: glossary of poetic terms, poets on poetry and a poetry forum.

• Seventeenth-Century Women Poets: Bibliography

  http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/kurse/17c/bibliogr.htm
  A bibliography of Internet resources and literature on seventeenth-century women poets and writers.

• Sources for Seventeenth-Century English Literature

  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenadd.htm
  History and politics, women in seventeenth-century England, Renaissance music, Renaissance theatre, art and architecture, and the Black Death.

• Timeline of English Poetry, 1603-1667

  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading5
  Links to an English poetry history timeline. Part of Representative Poetry On-line at the University of Toronto.

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