English Literature Resources: Websites/Videos

THE CAMELOT PROJECT is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.

A selection of links from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

(From Bartleby.com) The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.

Wide variety of Shakespeare-related resources, including fully annotated texts of his plays and poems, exciting multimedia materials, and thousands of searchable pages devoted to the history, arts, politics, society, and stage of Shakespeare's world, as well as biographical details of his life. Site supported by the University of Victoria, Canada.

Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays & summaries.

Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration and 18th Century literary texts.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks. These books are in the public domain in the United States and everybody — including Project Gutenberg and you — may read and distribute them.

SparkNotes online guides contain thorough summaries and insightful analyses. More than 500 guides for English literature and Shakespeare are available. Use this site to build a greater understanding of the literary work you are reading & researching.

VoS is woven by Alan Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English Department with a team of department graduate students and others.

A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Rochester, and the Scholarly Editions and Translations Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities.