Literary Criticism

Academy of American Poets

http://www.poets.org/

Extensive information on poets can be found here.

American Literature

http://classiclit.about.com/od/unitedstates/America_United_States_American_Literature.htm

Web site from About.com that include authors and themes in American Literature.

British Literature

http://classiclit.about.com/cs/britishliterature/

Information about authors, time periods, and genre from About.com.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

This classic 18 volumes set, originally published in the early Twentieth Century, provides valuable information.

English Literature

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

The Voice of the Shuttle provides a great deal of information on authors and time periods.

Legends

http://bestoflegends.org/*.*

Information on King Arthur, Ballads, Beowulf, and folklore can be found here.

Literary Terms

Poets’ Corner

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/authors.html

Index by poet to full text works.

Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

Literature, history and Culture in the age of Victoria.

Mythology

Bulfinch’s Mythology

http://www.greekmythology.com/Books/Bulfinch/bulfinch.html

Use the Table of Contents to locate the specific gods and goddesses.

Encyclopedia Mythica

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Greek Mythology Links

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/

Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library

http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=865&CFID=2135597&CFTOKEN=7dc5133db18724e5-1DAFED03-3473-0E4E-CF5E333C5B5A7A6E

Super Summary

http://www.supersummary.com/shakespeare-guide/

Mr. William Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Seven Ages of Shakespeare

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/lifesubj.html

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/10/10/

Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now

This Encyclopedia Britannica site offers information on Shakespeare’s life, the Globe, his plays, and much more.

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html

Shakespeare Illustrated

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html

Shakespeare’s Life and Times

The content of the site includes Shakespeare’s life, stage, society, history, ideas, drama, literature, and plays.

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html

The Shakespeare Mystery (PBS)

The site provides information about Shakespeare in an attempt to answer his true identity.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/

Shakespeare Online

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

Shakespeare Resource Center

A collection of links on different aspects of Shakespeare.

http://www.bardweb.net/

Shakespeare Resources

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/