Resources
for
Renaissance Research
(Books, Packets, and Websites)


RESEARCH SUBJECTS


Topics
and Subtopics


#1
 
Health/ Medicine/ Plague

#2
 
Fashion

#3
 
Housing /
Architecture


#4 

Industry/Trade/ Farming

#5

London

#6

Military

#7
 
Exploration

Sir John Hawkins/
Sir Francis Drake/
Sir Walter Raleigh

#8

Privateering/
Piracy


Sir Francis Drake

#9

  Elizabeth  I (Tudor)

#10 

Elizabeth I's Favorite Courtiers

Robert Dudley/
Robert Essex/
Robert Devereux

#11 

Crime/ Punishment

#12

Mary I
(Tudor) (Bloody Mary)

#13

Henry VIII (Tudor)
#14
 
Anne Boleyn
#15 

Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)
#16
 
 Entertainment
#17

 Playwrights and Poets

Edmund Spenser/
Christopher Marlowe/
Ben Jonson
#18

 William Shakespeare
#19

 Theater/Acting/ Globe Theatre
#20 

Witchcraft


#21 

Social Classes
#22

Fairies



Great Websites






















Websites:

Elizabethan.Org (excellent resource, many topics) http://elizabethan.org/sites.html

Elizabethan World (many topics) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/england.htm

BardNet (many topics) http://www.bardweb.net

Absolute Shakespeare (many topics) http://absoluteshakespeare.com

Shakespeare's Life and Times (good topics)  http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html

Guide to Elizabethan England (1533-1603) http://www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/pathfinders/elizabethan.html

Renaissance -- The Elizabethan World http://renaissance.dm.net/sites.html

Elizabethan Period Links http://www.libby.org/~eurimc2/eliza.htm

 Elizabethan Era  http://www.erasofelegance.com/elizabethan.html

 History Learning Site (look at Medieval and Tudor England) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/index.htm

Shakespeare and the Globe:  Then and Now http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/esa/660003.html

In Search of Shakespeare (PBS program) http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/locations/location154.html

Tudor History http://www.tudorhistory.org/

Eye Witness to History (section of Crime and Punishment) http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/punishment.htm

Eye Witness to History (an audience with Queen Elizabeth I) http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/elizabethI.htm

Biography of Henry VIII http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page1211.asp

Elizabethan Costuming http://costume.dm.net/

Elizabethan Insults http://www.renfaire.com/Language/insults.html

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Henry VIII http://www.newadvent.com/

Pirates www.allsands.com/privateersameri_wq_gn.htm

Witch Hunting http://www.worldzone.net/family/johnanderson/oamtorture.shtml

Castles www.britannia.com/history/david1.html

Bubonic Plague http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages

Globe Theatre http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/newglobe/newglobe_index.htm

Greek Mythology http://www.greekmythology.com/

                            http://www.pantheon.org/