WELCOME ENG 225: Major British Writers 1 END-USERS!
Consult your textbook’s [Norton Anthology of English Literature] companion website for self-quizzes, summaries, and background material!
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- Download or view online this fact sheet to help with your Reading or Writing About Literature.
- Speak or write as a seasoned drama critic: consult McGraw-Hill's online Glossary of Drama and Literary Terms.
- Learn about major playwrights and the century-by-century development of the theatre!
- Inspect Bullfinch's Mythology for myths, legends, gods/goddesses, mortals, heroes, conflicts, and places featured in classical masterworks.
- How does one read and interpret poems?
- This meticulous Website has all you may ever need to know about Old English, the Mediaeval world, andBeowulf.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight await you!
- 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!
- Get the quick facts on Edmund Spenser [1552-99]and his peom, The Faerie Queen.
- This multi-faceted website gives you ample facts on Christopher Marlowe [1564-93], his works, and his time period.
- Get a user-friendly life bio of Shakespeare [1564-1616] and data on his beloved Stratford-on-Avon.
- Quote any of these memorable lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets!
- 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.
- Marvel at this incomparable website that contains background details, features a useful timeline, and knows all things about...Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet!
- Scan this website devoted to the works and life of John Donne [1572-1631].
- Read about the life, works, and genius of John Milton [1608-74] .
- The famed Victorian Web offers a plethora of information on the influences, life, and times of Jonathan Swift [1667-1745].
- Drop into this Rutgers U. Website on the mind and literary output of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. [1709-84].
- Browse this thumbnail biographical sketch of Scottish lawyer, essayist, and diarist James Boswell [1740-1795].
- Oford University lovingly maintains the Thomas Gray [1716-1771] Archive, an online repository of everything pertaining to Gray!
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