Language Arts Reference Links

Bartleby.com

www.bartleby.com

This has all kinds of resources including Shakespeare and Bible text (as well as others) and many dictionaries and thesauri

Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia

www.bartleby.com/cambridge

"An encyclopedia in 18 volumes"

Landmark Citation Machine

http://citationmachine.net

This will help you with your bibliography

 

Author Links

This page has just been created and is in the beginning stages of accumulation

 

Censorship and Banned Books

Banned Books and Censorship: Information and Resources

http://libraries.luc.edu/about/banned/index.htm

This site from Loyola College has many links to valuable information

A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States

http://ericnuzum.com/banned

Learn a bunch about banned music

While this site deals mostly with Rock, some rap is covered as well

Censorship and Challenges

www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/censors.html

This site has a ton of information from the American Library Association

Forbidden Library

www.forbiddenlibrary.com

Learn a lot about why individual titles were banned or censored

Make sure to read the FAQs page

National Coalition Against Censorship

www.ncac.org

Offers information about censorship in the news

 

Etymology

Etymology – What is Etymology?

www.fun-with-words.com/etymology.html

What does etymology mean?

Interested in checking out the etymology of several words?

Try this site.

Online Etymology Dictionary

www.etymonline.com

This online dictionary of Etymology has many words from every day language

World Wide Words

www.worldwidewords.org

There is a lot of word information here

Check out the links on the left side of the page to find a list of words broken down by alphabetical sections

 

Etymology of Given Names

Baby Namer

www.babynamer.com

Very Comprehensive Site

You may need to click through several names to get the meaning: Bob, Robert

Behind the Name

www.behindthename.com/sources.html

Find "the etymology and history of first names"

Popular Baby Names

www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html

This has nothing to do with the etymology of baby names, but I found it interesting anyway

Look here to discover what names were popular in given years or decades

This page is from the Social Security Administration

Think! Baby Names

www.thinkbabynames.com

This site has a lot of thought put into it

Follow each name's links to the end or a variety of information

 

Fairy and Folk Tales

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang

This page contains information about a number of folk stories recorded by Andrew Lang in his Fairy Books

Information here often includes who originally recorded the story and where it is from

Also links to the text of many fairy stories

The Brothers Grimm @ National Geographic

www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html

Contains 12 Grimm Brothers fairy tales

Click on "Tell me a Story" to get started

For more information about the Grimm Brothers, click on the treasure box that says "Open Me"

A Study of Fairy Tales

www.sacred-texts.com/etc/sft/index.htm

This is an old text about fairy tales. Use the chapter names to guide to you appropriate information then use the find feature in your browser.

The SurLaLune Fairy Tales Site

www.surlalunefairytales.com

Contains an annotated text, illustrations, and histories of 27 Fairy Tales

 

Literature On Line

Most literature on line was written before the early 1900s. After a certain period of time, literature becomes a part of the public domaine. That means that they are no longer copyrighted and can be distributed for everyone's enjoyment. Sometimes authors allow their works to be published on line as well. Check out the following links to author's works.

 

19th Century German Stories

www.fln.vcu.edu/menu.html

Includes many stories including a number of folk and fairy tales

Written in both German and English

Click on the link in the bold font to get more options

Some of these stories include illustrations

From Virginia Commonwealth University

Bibliomania

www.bibliomania.com

Find here many poems, articles, short stories, and plays

If you choose the reference section, you will also find dictionaries, thesaurus, and other reference books

Under nonfiction you will find a few handfulls of nonfiction works

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Many examples of folk literature here

You will find multiple versions of some tales

From D. L. Ashliman, a retired professor from the University of Pittsburgh

Free Ebook Library

http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks

Here are a number of texts listed by broad category

They offer several ways to access the information

From the University of Virginia Library

The Hockliffe Project

www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/hockliffe/

Find here texts of early British Children's Stories

Contains photos of the page rather than just a text copy

Go through the pages until you access the catalog - only those stories in which the box contains a check mark are held within this collection

Project Gutenberg

http://gutenberg.org

One of the largest etext sites

The Advanced search feature is fairly helpful

When you pull up the text, there is a lot of copyright/fairuse/user agreement stuff before the text of the story

You can find the Fairy Books here for Paling's fairy tale project - Type Lang into the author box and fairy book in the title box

 

Mythology and History

Greek and Roman

Ancient World Mapping Center

www.unc.edu/awmc

Find some interesting maps relating to Ancient Rome and other Ancient civilizations

Bulfinch at Bartleby’s

www.bartleby.com/bulfinch

Check out Bulfinch’s Mythology at Bartleby’s

Click on the link entitled Stories of Gods and Heroes for more info

Captitolium.org

www.capitolium.org

Take a quick trip to Rome and learn a little history while you are there

Encyclopedia Mythica

www.pantheon.org

Search this site using the search menu or browse using the links

Make sure that you check out the images of heroes and gods

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

This site isn’t pretty, but there is a lot of great information

Loggia: Exploring the Arts and Humanities

http://www.loggia.com/myth/index.html

Mythology

www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/mythology.html

Try clicking on Classical Mythology

Then click on the advanced button on the top of the page

This site offers some great images!

Olga's Gallery

www.abcgallery.com

Scroll down and click on the link that says Ancient Greek and Roman Myth Index

Be warned, this also contains annoying popup advertising

Romans

www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/index.shtml

All kinds or great links to all things Roman

Also from BBC - The Romans

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans

Teach a younger sister, brother, or friend about Ancient Rome and the Romans

The Roman Empire in the First Century

www.pbs.org/empires/romans/

Click through this site to learn more about Ancient Rome

From PBS

Surgery of Ancient Rome

http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/instru.html

This has nothing to do with anything, but I thought it was neat

 

Poetry

Favorite Poem Project

www.favoritepoem.org

Learn about the Favorite Poem Project created by Robert Pinsky

Read some of these favorite poems and learn why they were chosen

Modern American Poetry: The Poets

www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm

Contains links to information about, and literary criticism for 161 poets

Poets' Corner

www.theotherpages.org/poems

Find many poems in the public domain (written before 1923)

Representative Poems Online

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca

Read poems in the public domain

Check out this glossary containing poetry terms

 

Shakespeare

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu

Try this site for a great starting place for information about the Bard and his works.

You will even find out more about the authorship mystery

Bartelby.com

www.bartleby.com/70/

Bartelby offers Shakespeare's work in full text

Just Scroll down and click on the appropriate link

Emory: Shakespeare Illustrated

www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html

Here you will find artists renditions of various scenes from Shakespeare's works

Click on The Plays to find art relating to a specific work

Encyclopaedia Britannica presents Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html

This site offers some neat information about Shakespeare and the Globe

Each time you click on a link a quote comes up, click on the quote to view the relevant information

Online Literary Criticism Collection - William Shakespeare

www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=sha-9

Check this out for a bit of literary criticism

Shakespeare Globe Centre: USA

www.sgc.umd.edu/

The University of Maryland shares information about both the history of and the rebuilding of The Globe

Shakespeare Online

www.shakespeare-online.com

While not scholarly, this site offers a lot of introductory information

Shakespeare Resources - Electronic Text Center

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/

Offers the complete text of Shakespeares works as well as some texts that were not changed in punctuation, spelling...

You can view these two types of sources side by side

Includes some Prompt Books from the 17th century

Some of the links on this page are only available to University of Virginia Users

Shakespeare Resource Center

www.bardweb.net

A well put-together site including info on: The man, His Works, Play Synopsis, Shakespeare's Will, Authorship Debate, The Globe, The Language, Elizabethan England

Authorship Controversy

The Shakespeare Fellowship

www.shakespearefellowship.org

A good introduction to the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy

Shakespeare Oxford Society

www.shakespeare-oxford.com

"The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare."

The Shakespeare Authorship Page

http://shakespeareauthorship.com

"Dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare"

Just for Fun

The Elizabethan Costuming Page

http://costume.dm.net/

Need to create costumes for a performance?

This site will get you started!

Online Magnetic Poetry

www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet

Are you a fan of refrigerator or magnetic poetry?

Take a crack at writing Shakespearean poetry by manipulating these words

Be patient, it sometimes takes a moment to load

You can also try some other categories of magnetic poetry writing

Not such a scholarly activity - Can you get Mazz to try it?

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare's Country

www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/

Take a stroll through Shakespeare's World

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Updated: Thursday, February 7, 2008

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