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How came this fortune to you, said he, for no doubt but you were borne of better ranke then the estate you appeare in shewes you to be: Loue, said shee, hath tyranniz'd ouer me, as well as plaid with you. His sports, if but such as I yet feele, cryde he, are rather racks and tortures then delights, vnlesse you will call them playes, as Dogges and Horses are taught by stripes and blowes, and such pastime I haue in loue, and so loue playes with mee: she that time that he discoursed, wound vp her hayre in strings of tawny, to shew her chance; then as if to hide it a little, or rather her selfe from the Sunne, shee put a dainty strawne hat on her head, appearing like Ceres crownd with her owne plenty. |
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES DATABASE
When complete, this could turn out to be outstandingly useful. As
it stands, it is already a considerable resource. The principle
behind this project, edited by Ian Lancashire, is to collect
early dictionary materials and make them searchable. Head for the
start page at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/english/emed/emedd.html.
Here you'll find a useful introduction to EMEDD, including a
history of the project, and reflections on the nature of
renaissance word-meanings etc.
The present EMEDD includes 18 works at various stages of completion:
The 11 of these which are currently in presentable form can be searched using 'Patterweb', a search device created by Mark Catt. This allows intelligent and flexible searching, e.g. with combination searches, searching through dictionaries individually or as a group. It is possible to search for words near each other (e.g. pawn near chess) or NOT near each other (pawn not near chess) which is a clever idea. The search page is http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/patterweb.html. Available: Palsgrave, William Thomas, Mulcaster, Thomas Thomas, Coote, Minsheu, Cawdrey, Bullokar, Cockeram, Blount, Garfield.
EMEDD is part of the older and larger Edicta project which incorporates similar projects relating to French and Latin. Find out more, and use the links, at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/edicta/intro.htm.
Interestingly and conveniently a recent Special Issue of the on-line journal EMLS features uses of the dictionary database mainly relating to Shakespeare. Seek inspiration at http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/si-01/si-01toc.html Most of these essays grew out of Ian Lancashire's graduate course on Shakespeare's language offered at the University of Toronto in 1995-96.
MIDDLETON ON-LINE
Surely one of the best electronic texts on offer. Chris Cleary
maintains this site based at the U of Virginia, and has so far
produced electronic editions of three-quarters of Middleton's
work (ranging from plays certainly written by Middleton alone to
dubious collaborations). This is an attractive set of pages and
the texts are clear and intelligently annotated; each play's
notes starts with a brief but sensible introduction. One of the
best features is that interesting points of vocabulary are not
only glossed but also linked, hypertextually, to other instances
in Middleton. Some of the notes are more extended and also make
use of links. Coming soon: the rest of the plays, and full
textual apparatus. As Cleary notes, these editions are not
refereed, but they have been undertaken carefully. Head for
http://dayhoff.med.virginia.edu/~ecc4g/middhome.html.
RICHARD BEAR'S SNOWBALL
Yet more e-texts have been added to Richard Bear's Renascence
Editions website at: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm. Thomas Campion's Observations on the Art of English Poesie has very recently appeared, along with seven John Milton online books,
now available in new HTML editions and published by arrangement
with Judy Boss of University of Nebraska at Omaha. They are:
ELECTRONIC SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL
ESCJ, which has been around since last July, has been rather
underpublicised. So we are publicising it again: http://www.truman.edu/escj/home.html. Like many journal websites it has a nice logo but is a little thin
on content. One or two features do have the potential to save shoe
wear, such as the abstracts of articles from recent issues of
Sixteenth Century Journal, and the list, in full and brief formats
and with an index, of books in the Sixteenth Century Essays and
Studies series:
Abstracts: http://www.truman.edu/escj/abstracts.html
Books: http://www.truman.edu/escj/books.html.
You can also follow links to find out about C16 Studies Conferences
past and future.
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE GAMES
This meticulously-prepared page features a huge variety of games
from many periods and cultures. Rules, pictures, documents, and
discussions are all available, many of them on this site, and
others via links. It is aimed at the player rather than at the
scholar, which makes it quite a refreshing read, but it could
well be a highly useful and informative aid to those who wonder
about the rules of obscure games that crop up in their reading.
Get your dice and cards ready, and head for http://www.inmet.com/~justin/game-hist.html.
ELIZABETHAN REVIEW
This is an on-line journal of less standing than some and, I am
afraid to report, takes an unhealthy interest in the question of
whether the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays. Still, some
of its output is on-line and there may be things of interest. You
can find ER at http://www.elizreview.com/.
FLORIMENE ON THE WEB
This project is at heart a teaching resource, using electronic
media to guide students through 17th century staging via the
example of Florimene. Started in 1988, it has (not surprisingly)
changed its method considerably and the genesis of the current
WWW format takes up some space on the site, but it is
interesting. The material on staging is impressively technical
and represented in wonderfully bilious colours which recall the
great days of 1980s computing. For content and for its
demonstration of what can be done, this is worth a visit:
http://artsci.washington.edu/drama/flori1.html.
TYBURN TREE
A website devoted to public execution in early modern England,
including texts (a couple of homilies), selections from other
contemporary documents (Kyd, Pepys, Boswell, Newgate Calendar), a
few dying speeches, images, bibliography, and links. The site is
unfinished and apologises for this; its current sponsor clearly
wants to hand it over to someone else. Nevertheless, some stuff...
http://www.wantree.com.au/~halligan/tyburn.htm.
MONTAIGNE STUDIES
The journal's homepage includes tables of contents of past issues
but not electronic versions of the articles. Included also is the
'Bibliotheca Desaniana' which includes bibliographical details
and facsimile title-pages of editions from the first to Dali's
selection from Cotton's translation. Links from here to some
French renaissance texts and resources. Head for:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/montaigne/index.html.
RENAISSANCE FORUM NEW ISSUE
The Autumn 1997 (2.2) issue of Renaissance Forum is available on
the WWW from http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/index.html. Contents include: Steve Longstaffe, 'What is the English history
play and why are they saying such terrible things about it?'; David
Siar, 'Jean E. Howard's Postmodern Marxist Feminism and the
Economic Last Instance'; and Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh with a Kristevan
view of Hamlet's First Soliloquy. Plus reviews by Nick Cox, J. C. Davis, Lisa Hopkins, Romauld I. Lakowski, Mark E. C. Perrott, Jeffrey Powers-Beck and J. A. Sharpe
of books by or edited by Simon Barker, David Bevington, David
Cressy, Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales, R.A. Foakes, Sean
Kelsey, William Lamont, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Julia Reinhard Lupton,
Derek Roper, John Russell Brown, David L. Smith, Richard Strier and
David Bevington, and Michael Taylor.
DISEASE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
'The Discursive Construction of Disease in Early Modern England' is
a proposed panel for the 1988 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
in Toronto, Ontario (10/22-25) will focus on the role of texts -
medical, religious, juridico-political and literary - in the
production of discourses of disease and illness in early modern
England. Of special interest are papers that examine the political
agendas of this discourse and the notions of particular diseases
they produce. Abstracts were due by January 30, 1998; more information can be had from John Gibbs, Texas A&M University, Department of English, College Station, TX 77843-4227 or on email at jog367a@unix.tamu.edu.
1998 SAN FRANCISCO MLA PANELS
COMPUTERS & TEXTS 16
Articles and reviews were invited for the coming issue of Computers &
Texts, the newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. Information on future issues and publications can be had by writing the Centre at ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk or by writing to mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk. Articles do not normally exceed 2,500 words and reviews are generally between
800-1,500 words. Contributions appear in both the print and
electronic editions of Computers & Texts.
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