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Consult your textbook’s [Norton Anthology of English Literature] companion website for self-quizzes, summaries, and background material!

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  1. Download or view online this fact sheet to help with your Reading or Writing About Literature.
  2. Speak or write as a seasoned drama critic: consult McGraw-Hill's online Glossary of Drama and Literary Terms.
  3. Learn about major playwrights and the century-by-century development of the theatre!
  4. Inspect Bullfinch's Mythology for myths, legends, gods/goddesses, mortals, heroes, conflicts, and places featured in classical masterworks.
  5. How does one read and interpret poems?
  6. This meticulous Website has all you may ever need to know about Old English, the Mediaeval world, andBeowulf.
  7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight await you!
  8. Go "ivy league" as you tour this Harvard U website on Geoffrey Chaucer [1340-1400], his beloved Canterbury Tales poem, the Middle English language, and English daily life in the Middle Ages!
  9. Get the quick facts on Edmund Spenser [1552-99]and his peom, The Faerie Queen.
  10. This multi-faceted website gives you ample facts on Christopher Marlowe [1564-93], his works, and his time period.
  11. Get a user-friendly life bio of Shakespeare [1564-1616] and data on his beloved Stratford-on-Avon.
  12. Quote any of these memorable lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets!
  13. The online Shakespeare Resource Center allows you to virtually visit Shakespeare's Globe Theatre  to learn about its structure, its Elizabethan-era audience, and its players.
  14. Marvel at this incomparable website that contains background details, features a useful timeline, and knows all things about...Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet!
  15. Scan this website devoted to the works and life of John Donne [1572-1631].
  16. Read about the life, works, and genius of John Milton [1608-74] .
  17. The famed Victorian Web offers a plethora of information on the influences, life, and times of Jonathan Swift [1667-1745].
  18. Drop into this Rutgers U. Website on the mind and literary output of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. [1709-84].
  19. Browse this thumbnail biographical sketch of Scottish lawyer, essayist, and diarist James Boswell [1740-1795].
  20. Oford University lovingly maintains the Thomas Gray [1716-1771] Archive, an online repository of everything pertaining to Gray!

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