LITERATURE & DRAMA 

Updated April 2009

MY FAVORITE POEM
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

by William Butler Yeats

GREEK MUSES OF LITERATURE & DRAMA
Thalia - The Greek Muse of Comedy
Melpomene - The Greek Muse of Tragedy
Erato - The Greek Muse of Love Poetry and Mimicry

LITERATURE
GENERAL & COMPREHENSIVE SITES
(Plus, a few odd and "nowhere else to put them links")
The Modern Library: 100 Best - find what scholars consider the top 100 books written in English during the 20th Century(you can also vote for your favorite)!
   Top Humanities Websites: Literature
  BIBLIOMANIA, The Network Library: Home Page
      VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Literature (in English) 
  VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Literatures (Other Than English) 
  VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Literary Theory 
  Books AtoZ | One stop access to all the services and information publish 
  BOOK INFORMATION WEBSITE 
  Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch) 
  Literary Movements 
  List of Book-Related Sites
  The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia
  Literature by Country Origin and / or Citizenship 
  Classic Literature Writer Directory 
  Periods of Classic Literature 
  A Literary Index: Making sense of literature on the Internet
     Thoughts Worth Thinking 
  LITERARYCRITIC.COM 
  Directory of Free Arts Resources: Literature
  Literary Locales 
  Book-A-Minute 
  Soon's Historical Fiction Site 
  Literature - What Makes a Good Short Story? 
More info on specific authors can be found on my Authors page.


GLOSSARIES - TERMS - WRITING GUIDES
A Glossary of Literary Terms
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Key Terms in Literature
Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Online Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting
A Dictionary of Sensibility
Words, words and more words: Literature, Dictionaries, Grammar, Etc.
The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
Aphorisms Galore!
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
Professional Writer's Resources
Rhyme Generator
Poetic terms
A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
World Wide Words
For dictionaries and thesauri
and info on writing papers, check out my STUDY SKILLS - RESEARCH - WRITING - AP/SAT/REGENTS - COLLEGE INFO page.

ELECTRONIC TEXTS/BOOKS ON-LINE
Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
  PROJECT GUTENBERG INDEX 
  Bibliomania: Free world literature and reference books 
  Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides 
  The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature 
The Internet Classics Archive | Browse
  Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia 
  The On-Line Books Page 
  ILTweb - Digital Texts 
  Great Books Index - List of Titles 
  Great Books Index by Author 
An Online Library of Literature 
  Classics at the Online Literature Library
  Old English Pages: Electronic Text and Manuscript Images 
  Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799
  Documenting the American South Main Page 
  THE ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE  
  University of California Press - Click on E-EDITIONS for online books 
  Classic Literature E-text Titles
  Southern Historical Collection and General and Literary Manuscripts, UNC-Chape
The Reader's Corner: Mystery, Romance and Fantasy
Grimm's Fairy Tales 
  Search Classic Literature Documents 
  Search the King James Bible 
  The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview 
  Hypertext and Hypermedia: An Overview 


CENSORSHIP....BOOK BANNING
Banned Books On-Line
Bonfire of Liberties: CENSORSHIP OF THE HUMANITIES
The Censorship Pages -- Information on Censorship of the Written Word
Banned Books and Censorship -- A Closer Look at Book Banning
Banned Literature
Banned Book & Censorship Resources


BOOK SELLERS
Amazon.com: Books, Music & More!
BarnesandNoble@aol The World's Largest Bookseller Online Home Page
Borders.com - Home
  findbooks.com - Rare and Out of Print Books
  Beagle Bay Books: Publisher of Women's Fiction and Non-Fiction 


HISTORY OF ALPHABETS, PRINTING, AND THE BOOK
TIMELINE: Printing and Book History
Ancient Scripts of the World: Home
Evolution of Hebrew Characters from Phoenician via Aramaic
Phoenician to Arabic Characters
Greek to Cyrillic
History of Writing
Ryan-Ancient Languages and Scripts
THE ARTICULATORY BASIS OF THE ALPHABET
Evolution of Alphabets
History of Scriptoria
The History of Printing
The Development of Print Technology
Printing: History and Development
Incunabula: Examples of Early Printing
Four Important Periods in the History of the Book
The Art of the Book - Rare Books at the University of Liverpool
Book, Manuscript and Printing History- Medieval History Net Links
Colophon Gallery
The Infancy of Printing: Incunabula at the Golda Meir Library
Colophon Gallery: The Illustrated Book
WebMuseum: Illuminated manuscripts
DScriptorium: digital images of Medieval manuscripts
The Rise of the University
Johann Gutenberg: Inventor of the Printing Press.
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Printed Books
The History of The Quill Pen
Book Illustration in Victorian England: An Overview
The First Typewriter
Japanese Writing
Chinese Characters Dictionary Web
Chinese Writing


PULITZER & NOBEL PRIZES
The Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Literature
PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Literature


AMERICAN LITERATURE
TIMELINE: American Literature and Events:1500-1929
American Authors on the Web 
    History of American Literature
  American Literature Comes of Age (1850-1900). Short Stories & Prose Writing 
  Southern Literature: Women Writers 
  Colonial America 1600-1775, K12 Resources 
  Early American Literature 1600 - 1900. Authors and Resources for Teachers, K-12 
  American and English Literature Online Books for Educators 
  AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1865 
  African American Literature 
  The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia 
VoS English Literature: American 
  VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Minority Literature
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
An Outline of American Literature
  A Student's History of American Literature 
  American Literature - American Literary Classics -- A Chapter A Day 
  American Literature 
  American Literature Sites 
  American Authors 
  American Writers 
  Language of the Land -- Journeys into Literary America 
  C-SPAN in the Classroom: American Writers 
  Southern Literature  
  Documenting the American South Main Page 
  A Digitized Library of Southern Literature to 1920
  Agee Films: Great Southern Books  
  Nineteenth-century Regional Writing in the United States 
  Regions and Regionalism in the United States: Studies in Literature 
  A Literary History of the American West 
  Southern Historical Collection and General and Literary Manuscripts 
  The Gilded Page 
  Gilded Age Documents 
  Gilded Age Genres 
  Recent Literature on American Populism
   Welcome to Dime Novels  
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature of WWI 
Books Go To War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II 
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s 
The Beat Generation 


BRITISH LITERATURE: MEDIEVAL - 20TH CENTURY
VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature
History of English Studies Page
Middle English Glossarial Database
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia
Labyrinth Library: Old English
ORB -- Old English
Old English Pages
Beowulf Resources
Luminarium
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
Romantic Chronology
San Antonio College LitWeb Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Welcome to the Falcon Education Link links to Donne, Swift, etc.
Welcome to Dime Novels
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature of WWI
Welsh Literature: Introduction
5 Minute Irish Stories
Irish Literature and Verse
IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA
For much more, visit my Specific Authors page.


LITERATURE OF MINORITIES, WOMEN, AND OTHER CULTURES
A Web Directory of World Literature
  Literature by Country Origin and / or Citizenship 
Symbolism in World Literature 
  Chinese Literature 
  VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Minority Literature 
  Welcome to Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project @ UCLA
  African American Literature 
  Southern Literature: Women Writers 
  Beagle Bay Books: Publisher of Women's Fiction and Non-Fiction 
  A Celebration of Women Writers 
  19th Century Russian Literature Homepage 
  Russian Literature 
  The Ramayana Story 


POETRY
A First-line Index of Poems in Representative Poetry On-line
  Representative Poetry On-line: Version 2.10 
  Poem Finder
Online Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting
  Rhyme Generator 
Poetic terms
A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry 
  RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus 
  Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
     A Time-Line of English Poetry 658-2001
  THE ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE 
  Poet Links
Education Imagery in Poetry - Welcome! 
Lost Poets of the Great War - THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE - The First World War and Contemporary War Poetry
  The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits
HTI American Verse Project
About the HTI American Verse Project  
Poets: The letters of Dickinson, Yeats, Clare, and Frost
The Academy of American Poets 
  Poetry Popup Specials, Katharena Eiermann, love poems, poems, romance, poets 
  The Poetry Society of America 
  PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History
   Sonnet Central
Poetry for Children
Poetry Pages for Young Adults
   Poetry Collections @Web English Teacher 
  Early 20th Century American Magazines: the Virtual Museum of Education Iconics 
  Poetry - CANONICAL VERSE 
  Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1919. Modern American Poetry
  Start Writing Haiku
The art of Haiku poetry
Create your own Haiku poetry
A Haiku Homepage
Chinese Poetry
Irish Literature and Verse  
  Electro Magnetic Poetry Kit
  Poetry For Teachers
    Character Portrayal In Reading And Writing Poetry
    Poetry: Awesome Library
Lear Limericks and Literature Unit Study -- Castlemoyle Books
Separated at Verse
Poetry Lesson Plans
Rapping and Rhyming—Poetry in Motion
A History of Poetry of Various Cultures in America
Poetry For The Remedial Reader 
  Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
    Homefires Cowboy Poetry
  Twentieth-century Poetry in English

Info on Shakespeare's Sonnets can be found below in the Drama and Theatre section.
For specific poets, check out the Specific Authors page.

LETTERS
Kim's Famous Love Letters
Poets: The letters of Dickinson, Yeats, Clare, and Frost
The letters of Voltaire, Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Hemingway

QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS
Creative Quotations for Creative Thinking 
  Axioms and Quotations on Life 
QIGA Proverbs
Proverbs - Chinese, African, Irish, English, and more
Inspirational Thoughts  
Many more quotation sites can be found on my General World History page.


SEND A FREE LITERARY INTERNET POSTCARD!
Just-So Literary Postcards

COMIC BOOKS!
History of Comic Books
Wahoo! Comic Link Directory
The 100 Greatest Comics of the 20th Century
More on comics and animation on my Movies and Misc. Fine Arts page.

FAIRY TALES, FABLES, & LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
Did you know? In the story of Cinderella, her slippers were originally fur, but they became glass because of an error in translation.
Book It Program - Feed the Need to Read 
  ISLMC General Children's and Young Adult Resources 
  Young Adult Literature; Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts 
  Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources Menu Page 
  Colonial America 1600-1775, K12 Resources 
  Early American Literature 1600 - 1900. Authors and Resources for Teachers, K-12 
  American and English Literature Online Books for Educators 
Grimm's Fairy Tales
StoryMall.Com - Fantasy and Reality Meet
Aesop's Fables - Online Collection and its soon to new home: Aesop's Fables
Tales of Wonder
Folk and Fairy Tales: Web Site Links
French Fairy Tales, Website Projects
Fables & Fairy Tales in England
History of children's literature and media
Picturing Childhood Home Page
Picturing Childhood: The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book
The BookHive: Your guide to Children's Literature & Books
WORLD OF THE CHILD: Two Hundred Years of Children's Books
Children's Literature in the National Art Library
CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Index to Children's Book Authors & Illustrators
List of Authors
Reviews of Children's Literature.
Bibliography Menu
Reading Laura Ingals Wilder: A Journey of Discovery
Kristine O'Connell George's Children's Poetry Corner
Poetry for Children
Poetry Pages for Young Adults - More on children's poetry (including lesson plans) can be found in the section on POETRY on this page.
The Night Before Christmas
L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism
Wizard of Oz
"The Wizard of Oz" in Editorial Cartoons
Alice and Beyond: English Children's Books
Lewis Carroll
CARROLL, LEWIS
LEWIS CARROLL Home Page
Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Homepage
Alice in Wonderland - An Interactive Adventure!
Joel Chandler Harris - author of the "Uncle Remus" stories
A.A. MILNE and Pooh: HEATHERBEARS POOHRIFFIC WEBRING, Welcome to Pooh's Corner
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables Encyclopedia Page
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Shel Silverstein WWW Links
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss's Seussville!
Russian Folktales
Little Russia. Children Music and Fairy Tales
PIZZAZ! Creative Writing and Storytelling Ideas
Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's

For more info, check out the Language Arts section on my Teacher page.

THE MYSTERY!!!
MysteryNet.com: The Online Mystery Network for everyone who enjoys a mystery
The Mystery Zone
Tangled Web Crime & Mystery Fiction
Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes Museum of Baker Street
Sherlockian Atlas
Sherlockian Atlas: Related Links
Sherlockian Atlas: Photo, Map & Illustration Index

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Science Fiction, Fantasy - Solar Flare
ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media
The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Other Dimension - the best in science fiction and fantasy
Science Fiction Research Bibliography
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
For info on Sci-Fi TV and Movies, check out my Movies and Misc. Fine Arts pages.

CLICK HERE FOR SPECIFIC AUTHORS, PLAYWRIGHTS, & POETS

  THEATRE & DRAMA
TIME PERIODS IN DRAMA
Didaskalia
Didaskalia - Introduction to Ancient Theater
Didaskalia - Modern Performances
Didaskalia - Introduction to Greek Stagecraft
Didaskalia - Introduction to Roman Stagecraft
Ancient Theatre
Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage, Univ. of Sask.
"Great Books" Theatre Stage
Greek Drama
Archaic Greek Lyric
Greek Theater 
  Medieval Drama Links 
  Medieval Theatre

Renaissance Theatre 1450-1600
Baroque Theatre 1600-1750
Classical Theatre 1750-1820
Romantic Theatre 1820-1900
Modern Theatre
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama


SET DESIGN & COSTUMING
Didaskalia - Recreating the Theatre of Dionysus
The International Theatre Design Archive
Theater, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
Elizabethan Costuming Homepage
English Actors at the turn of the Twentieth Century - super costume pictures!
Find more on costume on my Fashion History page!

SHAKESPEARE
Did you know? Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Search the Complete Works of Shakespeare
Shakespearean Poetry Search
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (1609)
The Shakespeare Sonnets Explained!Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Sonnets
www.killdevilhill.com Shakespeare's Sonnet of The Day
SHAKESPEARE RESOURCE - for Hamlet and Macbeth
Globe Theatre
Renaissance Texts Research Centre: Shakespeare and the Globe
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London
Mythology in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Shakespeare Illustrated
Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare
Shakespeare: Internet Shakespeare Editions
Shakespeare in Love - the film
William Shakespeare Bookstore: In Association with Amazon.Com Books
Shakespeare in Education
The Shakespeare Insult Server
Shakespearean Insults!
Surfing with the Bard

For more on Shakespeare, visit my England, Great Britain, UK page.

VAUDEVILLE
Vaudeville and Burlesque 
  Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 
   Will Rogers 
  The American Experience | Houdini 
  Bob Hope and American Variety (Library of Congress Exhibition) - Alternate URL 
  AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE MUSEUM 
  The History of Popular Entertainment: From Minstrelsy to Madonna 
  Vaudeville Memories 
  The Minstrel Show - Racism on stage. 
  Black-Face Minstrelsy 
  The Black Minstrel Show 
  Footlight Notes: The British Music Hall 


BROADWAY!!!
The Broadway Theatre Archive
Talkin' Broadway - Broadway & Off-Broadway
Talkin' Broadway - The History of the Great White Way
Red, Hot & Blue: A Salute to American Musicals from the National Portrai
Playbill On-Line - THE Theatre Source on the Web for Broadway Theater Information
Bernard J Taylor on writing musicals
On Broadway WWW Information Page
Tony Awards Online
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page
Gilbert and Sullivan Parody Archive
American Musical Theater

VARIOUS MISC. TOPICS
The Dramatic Exchange
CREATING, PERFORMING, AND PARTICIPATING IN THE ARTS
Drama Books
The Space - Drama Education Department
DramaWest Homepage - Association of Drama Educators (W.A.)
The Ring of Steel Theatrical Combat, Stage Combat and Film Combat
Theatre images: WWW-VL-Theatre and Drama
Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
Nerd World: Theatre
Theater Central
Didaskalia - Classics and Theater Resources
Theater, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
Acting 101--Showbiz Home

FOR MORE INFO ON THE CLASSICS SUCH AS SOPHOCLES, ARISTOPHANES, AESCHYLUS, VISIT MY Classics & Myth PAGE.

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