Renaissance/Elizabethan English Poetry & Prose

A collaborative project based around two poems in a printed book of 1600, F.L.'s translation of Ovid's Remedia Amoris. One is a translation of Ovid's Heroides 7 (Dido to Aeneas), and the other is an original reply from Aeneas. The first steps of the Aeneas and Isabella project are (i) to make available texts of both poems, in edited modern-spelling versions and in transcriptions from the source, and (ii) to put forward an argument which attributes them to Isabella Whitney, the first English female professional poet. A textual commentary, including a statement of editorial conventions, can be accessed from links within the texts.

This index is a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660.

Biographies and literary (prose and/or poetry) works of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Hoby, Roger Ascham, John Foxe, Edward de Vere, Elizabeth I, and George Gascoigne.

An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799.

This site provides an edition of Marlowe's works that begins to transcend the limits of print publication and exploit the flexibility of an electronic medium. Included here are all of Marlowe's plays, his two known poetic works, Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepheard to His Love, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, and the short miscellaneous works attributed to Marlowe, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the Countess of Pembroke and the epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood.