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Thank you for visiting. This site is dedicated to publishing essays, reviews and resources on the writers of the English Renaissance, with particular reference to the works of Shakespeare and Bacon.

Refer to the site map to find out where everything is.

If you have any queries or suggestions, or if you would like to submit a paper for publication, drop me a line.

David Hurley,
October 2007



Audio Books

Browse our complete range of English Renaissance audio books
here. Every title can be easily downloaded direct from our site, English-Renaissance.net.



Romeo & Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Full Cast Production
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes (unabridged)
Publisher: Select Music & Distribution (Naxos)





Descartes, Bacon and
Modern Philosophy

Author: Prof. Jeffrey Tlumak
Narrator: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 3 hours (unabridged)
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.



Classical Links
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Italian Renaissance Links
Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Explore the Renaissance

Botticelli's Vision

Dutch Renaissance Links
Justus Lipsius
A useful introduction to the founding father of Neostoicism.

Justus Lipsius, His First Book of Constancy

Justus Lipsius, His Second Book of Constancy

Investigating Three Early Netherlandish Renaissance Paintings

Latin Links
The Perseus Digital Library
A large collection of Latin texts in which every every word is clickable and gives access to the English translation as well as grammar notes.

English Renaissance Histories
Lytton Strachey:
Elizabeth and Essex


Friendly Links
100-Word-Book-Reviews.com


English Renaissance Links


The Works Of The Bard
The web's oldest Shakespeare site. Try the Shakespeare search engine.

Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet
This site aims "To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet" (including Online editions of Shakespeare's plays and poetry), and "To present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet."

Shakespeare's Globe
Dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions, centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London.

King Lear
The Complete Text of Shakespeare's King Lear with Quarto and Folio Variations, Annotations, and Commentary by Dr. Larry A. Brown.

Information on Shakespeare in Japanese
A resource site for Japanese students of Shakespeare.

Luminarium
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660). A site that covers a wide variety of subjects with a lot of resources and links.

Francis Bacon: The Moral and Historical Works
Online versions of the Essays; Advancement of Learning; The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh; The Wisdom of the Ancients; New Atlantis; miscellaneous writings. The site also includes biographical information by Rawley, Aubrey and Jonson.

Francis Bacon
This site offers Bacon's Essays and links to other Bacon pages.

Francis Bacon Research Trust
The Trust focuses on the wisdom teachings embodied in the works of Bacon.

Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
This is an entertaining, delightfully controversial and yet informative site. Be sure to wait for the pictures to download...

The Mystery of Francis Bacon
William T. Smedley's 1910 biography, which argues in favour of the Shakespeare=Bacon line.

An Authorship Analysis
Francis Bacon as Shakespeare. Lots of links to extracts from Bacon and others, intending to suggest by them that Bacon was the writer of the works of Shakespeare.

Francis Bacon
A brief biography.

The Edmund Spenser Home Page
This Spenser site has been created by the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge.

Renascence Editions
This site aims "to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799." It includes Bacon's Advancement of Learning and Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall, Hoby's translation of Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and much more.

The Works of Ben Jonson
Offers an introduction to Jonson and links to his plays and other writings.

The Marlowe Society
Aims to present Christopher Marlowe in his true light as a great poet and playwright, the innovator of blank verse drama.

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
The Complete Text, with Notes and Commentary by Dr. Larry A. Brown.

The Book of Common Prayer
1549 edition. From this site you can also get to the 1662 edition.

Bible Gateway
A tool for reading The Bible online, with advanced searching capabilities. King James Version is present among the English translations. Access to the Vulgate via the Latin link, and Luther's translation via the German link.

John Foxe: Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online
"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs."
James Miller Dodds, English Prose.

Richard Hooker: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Volumes I-VIII, John Keble's edition on Adobe Acrobat.

Learned Discourse on Justification A Sermon by Richard Hooker.

The Alchemy Website
This site publishes information on alchemy in all its facets. There are over 1300 sections containing over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, as well as extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts. There are also numerous articles and introductory and general reference material on alchemy.

The Thomas More Society
Information about Thomas More's life and links to his writings.

Sonnets.org
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links.

The Don Quixote Study Guide Page
Don Quixote, metafiction and narrative structure. Transformations of Don Quixote in the Renaissance, and 18th-20th centuries.

The Forest of Rhetoric
A comprehensive guide to the terminology of rhetoric, with examples illustrating each term.


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