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GENERAL
The World of London Theater 1660-1800 Offers a chronological table, with brief descriptions of quite a few plays, actors and dramatists, plus some articles written by the contributors to the site on the plays they have read. Still a work in progress, but very useful. This web site is from a course held at the University of
St. Andrews. It is very well designed, and offers information on the
historical background, theatres, actors and theatre companies and
critics of the Restoration period. The Humanities Digital Information Service at Stanford University grants open access to Chadwyck Healey's English Prose Drama Database, with their own interface. It allows quotation- and well as text-searches. It includes a great deal of the plays in the Restoration Comedy Project list of comedies.
Mostly excerpts and basic information on the social background, typology of drama and characters, and several playwrights (Vanbrugh, Cibber, Steele, Pix, Centlivre, Farquhar and Sheridan). Centred on the first half of the seventeenth century, it features only the works of Margaret Cavendish. But Luminarium is still a fundamental site on English literature and culture.
The Voice of the Shuttle on the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Another
essential site for information on English literature and culture
-though its emphasis is on the 18th century rather than the
Restoration. Restoration
and Eighteenth-Century Literature A page kept by Mark McDayter from the University of
Western Ontario (Canada), with abundant information on web- and
research-resources on the literature of the period.
A collection of the songs included in Restoration plays.
Listed by author, composer, play title and date. A must for those
interested in this aspect of English drama. SPECIFIC AUTHORS
Aphra Behn The Aphra Behn Page features a good list of resource material on Aphra Behn. There is also an Aphra Behn Society page.
Margaret Cavendish See the entry for Luminarium above.
John Dryden Dryden has been much neglected on the web. Yet Bartleby lets you browse volume 8 of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, edited by A.W. Ward and A.R. Waller, which discusses Dryden's works and times.
Samuel Pepys Phil Gyford is helping build up a highly interesting page on the Diary. The diary entries are annottated by him and other contributors. The page on Background Information offers data on a wide variety of topics, from art and literature to fashion, people, places and travel. Wheatley's version of the Diary (1660-1669) can be downloaded from the Guttenberg Project database. There is also a version at Bibliomania.
JOURNALS
It publishes articles and reviews on literature produced until the late seventtenth century. It is online, and available for browsing.
SEDERI, the Journal of the Spanish and Portuguese Association of English Renaissance Studies It can be viewed on the Association's webpage. Besides the table of contents of most of the issues, some of these can be viewed as PDF files.
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