Shakespeare Unit 2005: Othello 

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Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Maps and Images)

Shakespeare and Reformation Chronology

PowerPoint Presentations:

excerpts from Perry, An Intellectual History of Western Europe

Shakespeare Backgrounds

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Essay Topic

Othello Criticism:

Othello Production History:

Othello on Stage by Gary Walton (Meredith College)

Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of Othello

Hear Edwin Booth read from Othello in 1890 courtesy of the Michigan State University

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature:
Background Information

 

General Introductions to the Renaissance Overview of the 16th Century - Norton Topics Online The Renaissance - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Renaissance - The Annenberg/CPB Project The Renaissance - Michael S. Seiferth History and Politics Battles and Rebellions - Lara Eakins Renaissance Backgrounds: A Chronological Outline - Dr. Harriette Andreatis Millennium Timeline: The 16th Century (1501 - 1600) - Greenwich 2000 Introduction to the 16th Century - c. t. iannuzzo Humanism - Vatican Expo Renaissance Political Theory - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Warfare and the State - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Loyalty as an Elizabethan Practice - Peter Grubbs Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England - Charlie Mitchell Shakespeare's England: Law - Arthur Underhill Crime and the Law in Elizabethan England - UVic The Technology of Warfare in Elizabethan England - UVic Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period - A. W. Ward Power and Government in Elizabethan England - Heather Thomas The Spanish Armada - Heather Thomas Europe in the Elizabethan Age - Heather Thomas Who was Who in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I - Heather Thomas Harrison's Description Of Elizabethan England Renaissance Humanism - The Annenberg/CPB Project Who's Who in Tudor History - Lara Eakins Chronology of Politics and War in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England - Ashley Beyer and Valerie Passerini Economy, Trade, and Exploration Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe - Norton Topics Online Renaissance Exploration and Trade - The Annenberg/CPB Project Economy and Exploration Timeline - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox The Economy of Europe in the Renaissance - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Money and Coinage - Maggie Pierce Secara Chronology of Discovery and Trade in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Royalty Monarchs of England - Britannia Internet Magazine History of the British Monarchy - The British Monarchy Tudor England - Lara Eakins Tudor Chronology - Kelly Crispen Henry VIII and the early Tudors - UVictoria Tudor Succession Problems - Sarah Vallieres The Tudors - Welford and Wickham Primary School, Berkshire, England The Stuarts - Welford and Wickham Primary School, Berkshire, England The Tudor Succession - Maggie Pierce Secara The Tudors - Kelly Crispen Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present - Glenn Everett Royal Genealogies - Denis Reid Images of the Tudors - Alexis Staples Tudor Portrait Gallery - Joan Larsen Klein Henry VIII and His Wives - Diana Laulainen-Schein Tudor Women - Diana Laulainen-Schein London and the Modern Monarchy - Penelope Corfield Tudor Family Tree - Kelly Crispen Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533 - Medieval Sourcebook Facsimile of Henry VIII's letter to Ann Boleyn Religion & Philosophy Religion in the Renaissance - UVictoria Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation - Norton Topics Online Hypertext Introduction to Italian Humanism - Robert Barrie A Whirlwind Tour of the Protestant Reformation - Michael Bryson The Protestant Reformation - Miles Hodges The Core of Elizabethan Religion - John E. Booty The First Book of Common Prayer January 15th, 1549 - Richard Cavendish Ballads and brags: free speech and recusant culture in Elizabethan England - Phebe Jensen N.D. versus O.E.: anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic controversy - Marcy L. North Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England: Bibliography - Folger Library The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation - James Jackson The Puritan movement - UVic English Literature and Religion - William S. Peterson Chronology of Religion in Renaissance society - Virtual Renaissance Reformation in England - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Queen Elizabeth and the Reformation - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Forms of Early Religious Vernacular Texts in England (c.1475-1570) - David J. Duncan Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation - Janet Clare The Elizabethan Homilies 1623 - UToronto Renaissance Science and Medicine Medieval Cosmology - Luminarium Encyclopedia The Medieval Universe - UVictoria Scientific Revolution - Dr. E.L. Skip Knox Renaissance Science and Health - Maggie Pierce Secara Lawyers, Physicians, and Travellers - Sara Douglass Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis - Stephen Jay Gould Paracelsus’ Impact on Medicine During the Renaissance Era - Blake, Aronstam, & Buchanan The Galileo Project - Rice University Giambattista della Porta's "Natural Magick", 1584 Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist - Museum of Science, Boston Alchemy Virtual Library Miscellany of Scientific Treatises: manuscript, ca. 1450-1475 - UPenn The Plague The Black Death - Dr. E.L. Skip Knox The Plague - UVictoria Pictures of the Plague - Ed Stephan John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Ed Stephan The Plague in Elizabethan England - Miller, Orr, Bunker, and Rahman Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe - University of Virginia Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural The Supernatural - UVictoria Witchcraft Documents [15th Century] - Medieval Sourcebook Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America - UVA Demonology - Cosma Shalizi Facsimile excerpts from Harsnett's A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603) - UPenn Two sixteenth-century Latin treatises on witchcraft - UPenn The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) by Sprenger and Kramer (1484 ) - Rutgers The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot (1584) -Rutgers The Witch and Devil in Prints - Rutgers Title-page of Dekker, Rowley, and Ford's "The Witch of Edmonton" (1621) Spirits, Witches, & Science: Why the rise of science encouraged belief in the supernatural in 17th-c. England - Richard Olson To Prevent a "Shipwreck of Souls": Johann Weyer and "De Praestigiis Daemonum." - Elisa Slattery Towards a New Demonology - Steven Connor Witchcraft Craze History - Laren Witchcraft Trials and the Origins of the Witchcraze in Later Medieval England - "Epona Seaborn" Witch-hunts of Scotland: How the trial of Doctor Fian Began a New Craze - "Wolf-Singer" Witches - Eric Schaefges Women in the Renaissance Renaissance Images of the Virgin Impudent Women: Carnival and gender in early modern culture - Kate Chedgzoy Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 1558 Marriage and Family in Elizabethan England - Maggie Pierce Secara Gender, Family, Household: 17th C. Norms and Controversies - Norton Topics Online Women's Rights - Norton Topics Online Education of Women - Norton Topics Online Women's Public Speech - Norton Topics Online Education of Girls - UVic Elizabethan Women Writers - UVictoria Women as Translators - UVictoria Huswifery - UVictoria Women: loved and loathed - UVictoria Order in the sexes - UVictoria Literature for women - UVictoria The Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, and Helpful Hints - Folger Library Shakespeare's Unruly Women - Folger Library English 420: Women and Power in Early Modern England - Joan Larsen Klein, UIUC The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Renaissance Women Writers - Professor Janet Smarr Gallery of Images: Women with Books - Professor Janet Smarr Life of Women in Tudor England - Kelly Crispen Renaissance Women Online - Brown University Bibliography: The Education of Upper-Class Englishwomen - Sharon Deborah Michalove Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation - Janet Clare Images Renaissance Art Posters Renaissance Images of the Virgin Images of the Tudors - Alexis Staples Images of the Elizabethan Theatre - Alexis Staples An Image-Oriented Introduction to Backgrounds for English Renaissance Literature - Professor Herman Asarnow Renaissance Image Gallery - Professor Rebecca Bushnell Seeing What Shakespeare Means - Folger Library Renaissance Maps - Lara Eakins Early Modern Cartographic Resources on the WWW - Rhonda Lemke Sanford Tudor Portrait Gallery - Joan Larsen Klein Tudor Dress: A portfolio of images - Hope Greenberg Electronic Renaissance: Images - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox University of Michigan Image Catalog Bodleian Library Image Catalog Gunpowder Plot Images Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669 - UVA Gallery of Images: Women with Books - Professor Janet Smarr Facsimile of Henry VIII's letter to Ann Boleyn Pictures of the Plague - Ed Stephan Renaissance Music Music History 102: The Renaissance - IPL Renaissance Consort Music in England - UVictoria Music in Tudor England - Lara Eakins Early Music Midi Files - Curtis Clark Guitar and Lute MIDI Library - Allan Alexander Classical MIDI Archive: Composers born before the 17th century - Pierre R. Schwob Classical MIDI Connection: Renaissance - Raborn and Winters Mulliner Book MIDI files - David Cooke English Baroque MIDI files - David Cooke Renaissance MIDIs - Conrad Bladey Medieval and Renaissance Music Research Page - Mulcheng A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua Renaissance Musical Instruments - Megan Haynes and Brian Hart Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern - Dr. Gary R. Boye Sixteenth Century Ballads - Greg Lindahl Music and Dance of the Period - Center for Fawkesian Pursuits Renaissance Theatre Images of the Elizabethan Theatre - Alexis Staples The Sixteenth Century Court Audience: performers and spectators - Sarah Carpenter Base Trade: Theater as Prostitution - Joseph Lenz Renaissance Drama from its Medieval Origins to the Closing of the Theatres - Jennifer Mooney Shakespeare's Stage - UVictoria The Drama and Shakespeare - UVictoria Renaissance Drama Home Page - Dr. Christy Desmet London's disreputable South Bank in the 16th and 17th century. - Jessica A. Browner Centre for Research in Early English Drama - University of Toronto Renaissance Dance Morris on the Stage - C. P. Clarke Renaissance Dance - Andrew Draskóy Renaissance Dance Sources - Joseph Casazza Renaissance Music and Dance Homepage - Greg Lindahl 'Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche' Music and Dance of the Period - Center for Fawkesian Pursuits Renaissance Art Renaissance Art Posters Renaissance Images of the Virgin Holbein: court painter of the Reformation - Andrew Pettegree National Portrait Gallery Art in Renaissance England - UVictoria The Arts in Tudor England - Kelly Crispen Italian Painting of the 15th century - National Gallery of Art Italian Painting of the 16th century - National Gallery of Art Northern European Painting of the 15th-16th centuries - National Gallery of Art A Tour of Renaissance Art - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Renaissance Tapestry - Sara Stone Chronology of Art and Science in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Visual arts: 16th century - Municipal Museum de Lakenhal Renaissance Architecture Renaissance Architecture in England - UVictoria Tudor Architecture - Lara Eakins Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - UVA Elizabethan Architecture - Valerie Kamhi Renaissance Costume Elizabethan Costuming - Drea Leed Overview of an Elizabethan Outfit - Drea Leed The Costumer's Manifesto: 16th century/Northern European Renaissance - Tara Maginnis, Ph.D Renaissance Costume Guide Merchants of Elizabethan Costumes Tudor Dress: A Portfolio of Images - Hope Greenberg Arador Armour Library - David Clemons The Renaissance Tailor: 16th and 17th Century Clothing Modesty to Majesty: The Development of the Codpiece - Beth Marie Kosir Decorative Armor - LaDaryl Hale and Zak Manes Hairstyles of the Elizabethan Period - Barfield and Fuller Men's Fashion during the Elizabethan Period - Matt Doering Women's Fashions of the Elizabethan Period - Bridges and Granger Renaissance Printing and Publishing Publishing in the Renaissance - UVictoria The World of the Renaissance Print Shop - Merry Wiesner-Hanks The Infancy of Printing - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Printing: Renaissance & Reformation - University of South Carolina Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799 - Richard Bear The Book-Trade, 1557–1625 - H. G. Aldis Tudor Aristocrats and the Mythical "Stigma of Print" - Steven W. May Renaissance Printing and Thinking - The Annenberg/CPB Project Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World - Bruce Jones Printing in the Renaissance and Reformation - University of South Carolina Renaissance Food and Drink Elizabethan Alehouses - Heather Thomas Elizabethan Food - KJVI & I Page Food in Tudor England - Lara Eakins Renaissance Food - Maggie Pierce Secara Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage - Greg Lindahl Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage - Greg Lindahl Miscellaneous Renaissance Society - UVictoria A Compendium of Common Knowledge - Maggie Pierce Secara Literary Backgrounds of the 16th & 17th Centuries - Norton Anthology Elizabethan Heraldry - John Neitz and Paula Kay Marmor Tudor Heraldry - Kelly Crispen London and the Development of Popular Literature - Harold V. Routh Childhood in Elizabethan England - Heather Thomas Outlaws and Highwaymen - Gillian Spraggs Education during the European Renaissance - UMN History of Prose Style - John F. Tinkler Elizabethan Sports - Gretchen Maxwell and Alan Carey Currency Values In Elizabethan England - Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire The Shakespeare Classroom - JM Massi PennEnglish: 50-Book Master List -- Sixteenth Century Journals Renaissance Forum - Andrew M. Butler, Technical Editor Early Modern Literary Studies - Lisa Hopkins, Editor Metapages VoS: Renaissance and 17th Century - Alan Liu Renascence and Reformation - Cambridge History of English and American Literature Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall A Compendium of Common Knowledge - Maggie Pierce Secara English Literature on the Web - Mitsuharu Matsuoka Literary Resources -- Renaissance - Jack Lynch Sonnet Central - Eric Blomquist Imagining Early Modern Worlds - Dr. Grant Williams San Antonio College LitWeb - Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D Elizabethan England - Springfield High School, IL Renaissance - Terry A. Gray Anglophilia - Marie E. Norris England: Mega-Links Cultural Page - Dave Armstrong