View all five acts of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by scenes.

A collection of seven Hindu books from various time periods. There is a written commentary plus great illustrations. The author of the commentary is Ravi Shankar, the famous Sitar musician.

A series of seven Christian manuscripts from various time periods. Each manuscript is illustrated and comes with a written commentary.

This is an introduction to 20th Century and Modern Poetry. It focuses on disillusionment in British attitudes, World War I's influence on the literature, changing role of women in British society, and major writers of the time and their...

The 24 Hour Museum collects in one place museum exhibit sites and news from over 3700 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK. Whether you are interested in history, science, literature or culture, you'll be able to find...

This site contains the full text of "John Donne: His Life," as it appears in "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature." Comprehensive biography of Donne.

Part of a larger site on Renaissance literature contains links to many biographies of Henry VIII. Includes a compilation of works written by Henry VIII.

Traces Donne's progress and success as a 17th century poet. Full text excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature."

This lesson focuses on the Anglo-Saxon culture. It features links to Mead Hall Information, BBC History British Museum, an Anglo-Saxon Collection, Discovery Education: The Dark Ages, Part One video (Registration required), The Sutton Hoo...

This is an introduction to a Restoration and Eighteenth Century, which ranges from the Restoration of King Charles II to the turn of the 19th century. The essential questions for the unit focuses on how the events of the period...

Discover the brilliant Bronte sisters, who defied the limited options for women in 19th-century Britain to create some of the most iconic novels in English literature, in these three video excerpts from To Walk Invisible: The Bronte...

The passion of Revolutionary literature is found in pamphlets, the most popular form of political literature of the day. Over 2,000 pamphlets were published during the Revolution. The pamphlets thrilled patriots and threatened loyalists;...

At this website, read the full text of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield." Included, is a brief paragraph introducing the text and its plot.

Good discussion of The Vicar of Wakefiled and its history.

This is a one-page PDF of a letter from William, archbishop of Sens, to the Pope, in relation to the death of Thomas Becket.

An in-depth biography of cavalier poet Thomas Carew. It mentions his heritage, up-bringing, education, career at court, and his death. As well as providing a wealth of information on Carew, this site also includes several of his most...

This page is dedicated to winners of the Newbery Medal, an award named for an eighteenth-century British bookseller. Link is available for list of current winners and past winners.

Abridged version of the famous essay by John Dryden.

This is a 22-page PDF of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Jessie L. Weston.

This is a 27-page PDF of GAWAYNE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis; a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Night.

This is a PDF of the morality play Everyman, written in the 15th century. It is about Death coming to get Everyman and hold him accountable for his life.

Full text of Virginia Woolf's short story collection Monday or Tuesday. Includes "A Haunted House," "A Society," "Monday or Tuesday," "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," "Kew Gardens," and "The Mark on the Wall."

This is a 12-page PDF of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

This is a transcript of an interview with Stoppard that was done on "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Stoppard talks about his writing process and creativity.