• Simon Armitage

• Beloved

• William Blake

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems

• Dr Faustus

• Dracula

• Duchess of Malfi

• Edexcel Poetry Anthology

• Frankenstein

• The Go-Between

• The Good Soldier

• Hamlet

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Joseph Andrews

• Keats Selected Poems

• Murmuring Judges

• Othello

• Philip Larkin

• Poetry

• Prose

• The Short Story

• The Tempest

• Edward Thomas

• Translations

• The Winter's Tale

• Wuthering Heights

• The land of Cockaigne, a fictional utopia described in a 13th century French poem

Shakespeare

• Shakespeare in Quarto at the British Library. The first printed editions of 21 of his plays.
• Life in Elizabethan England  A Compendium of over 100 pages of very useful material
• An introduction to the Elizabethan stage
• Tragedy from Shakespeare to the present day
• Shakespeare's Life and Times A massive site divided into ten "books", each of which in turn is divided into "chapters"
• Shakespearean verse and prose
• Religions A comparison of the doctrines of Roman Catholicism and the Church of England
• The Great Chain of Being
• Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy
• Groundlings at the Globe
• A model of the Globe
• Shakespeare - The Early Texts

Jacobean period

• Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
• Jacobean Tragic Drama
• King James I of England is a useful site if you can stand the irritating background music (it does stop eventually!)
• "Long live Queen James!"  King James I of England and VI of Scotland was so open about his homosexual love affairs that an epigram had been circulated which roused much mirth and nodding of the heads: Rex fuit Elizabeth: nunc est regina Jacobus—"Elizabeth was King: now James is Queen."
• Wikipedia entry for James I, including some revealing quotes from the man himself.

• Eighteenth-Century Resources
• 18th-Century Philosophy
• Poetry of the Thirties