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Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries.

 A B C D E F H I K L M P Q R S V

A  Top

anti-Stratfordian
http://shakespeareauthorship.com
Provides evidence for the Stratfordian position.

Arthurian literature
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot
Camelot Project, archive of Arthurian materials and links.

B  Top

ballad
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads site with international links to other ballad archives.

bestiary
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary
Aberdeen Bestiary Project, a well-illustrated archive.

bluestocking
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/elizabeth_fay/archive2.html
Site devoted to Bluestocking circle.

C  Top

concrete poetry
http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete
Provides bibliography and links.

Critical Theory
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations
Illuminations: a Critical Theory site at University of Texas.

cultural studies
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Searchable database of free texts.

D  Top

Dada
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada
International Dada Archive at University of Iowa.

detective story
http://www.crimeculture.com
Web resource for academic study of crime fiction.

dialogic
http://www.shef.ac.uk/bakhtin/
Site of the Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield.

dime novel
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies
Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection at Stanford University, a large archive.

E  Top

ecocriticism
http://www.asle.umn.edu
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

emblem
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
University of Glasgow Library Emblem archive.

Enlightenment
http://www.wsu.edu~dee/ENLIGHT
European Enlightenment studies site at Washington State.

epic
http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html
Hyperepos: a resource for the study of epic.

F  Top

feminist criticism
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism
Feminist theory site at Virginia Tech.

figure
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva
Silva Rhetoricae (The Forest of Rhetoric): lists and describes huge number of figures.

folktale
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts: large archive of folktales at University of Pittsburgh.

H  Top

haiku
http://www.hsa-haiku.org
Site of the Haiku Society of America.

I  Top

Index, the
http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/about_database/index_libroru...
Lists all the banned books from final (1948) edition of Index Librorum.

in-yer-face theatre
http://www.inyerface-theatre.com
Aleks Sierz's site with glossary and lists of plays.

K  Top

kabuki
http://www.kabuki21.com
Extensive summaries of plays, details of actors, costumes, etc.

L  Top

Language poetry
http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/LANGUAGE
Archive of early issues of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.

little magazine
http://www.modjourn.org
Modernist Journals Project at Brown and Tulsa universities, with archive of early modernist journals.

M  Top

Marxist criticism
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit
Provides some early texts.

masque
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/library/SLT/stage/themasq...
Illustrated resource on masques at University of Victoria.

Middle English
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth
Labyrinth, an extensive medieval studies resource.

mystery play
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/plays.htm
Archive of play texts and other materials.

P  Top

pattern poetry
http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete
Bibliography and links for pattern and concrete poetry.

poetry
http://www.poets.org
Academy of American Poets: extensive guide to poets and poems.

postcolonial literature
http://www.postcolonialweb.org
General resource for postcolonial literature and theory at National University of Singapore.

Pre-Raphaelites
http://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
Site of the Pre-Raphaelite Society.

psychobiography
http://www.psychobiography.com
Specialist resource on psychobiography.

Q  Top

quarto
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare
British Library collection of Shakespeare Quartos viewed in facsimile.

Queer theory
http://www.queertheory.com/
Independent academic web resource with bibliographies and links.

R  Top

Renaissance
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres
Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service.

Restoration comedy
http://alojamientos.us.es/restoration
Restoration Comedy Project at University of Seville, catalogues plays and performances.

rhetoric
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva
Silva Rhetoricae (The Forest of Rhetoric): extensive reference source for rhetorical theory and figures.

Romanticism
http://www.rc.umd.edu
Romantic Circles: extensive scholarly resource based at University of Maryland.

S  Top

science fiction
http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database at Texas A&M.

semiotics
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics
Clearly arranged set of links.

sonnet
http://www.sonnets.org
Sonnet Central: archive of sonnets with historical notes and links.

Surrealism
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk
Research consortium of Tate Gallery with Essex and Manchester Universities.

V  Top

Victorian
http://www.victorianweb.org
The most extensive web resource for Victorian studies.

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