Renaissance Drama & Literature (including Shakespeare)

Luminarium
Anthology of Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century literature. An award-winning web site.

Renascence Editions
A large collection of on-line texts that were originally printed between 1477 and 1799.

Voice of the Shuttle (Renaissance)
Detailed comprehensive resource for study of English Renaissance literature. The Voice of the Shuttle home page offers resources across several periods and disciplines.

Folger Shakespeare Library
The premier American collection of early modern texts in literature, history, and the theater. The library houses a reproduction of the an Elizabethan theater, also the Folger Institute, which supports research and seminars at the Library for faculty and graduate students from about thirty institutions. UB, with its program in Early Modern Studies, is a member. 

SHAKSPER
The Global Electronic Shakespeare Confererence. A lively, informed discussion of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Open to teachers, students, and researchers. Archived discussions are searchable.

Shakespeare's Plays
The text of the plays, useful for cutting and pasting speeches into your writing, also for searching a play for particular words and phrases.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare Examined Through Performance
A 1995-96 NEH/Folger Institute seminar, with good related links, including the Performance Institute Recipe Book (for theater production exercises).

Shakespeare's Globe Theater Online
The website for a reconstructed Globe Theater on the banks of the modern-day Thames River. Presents a yearly season of performances in the open-air theater.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
A useful, entertaining compilation of resources, not only for the bard, but for the English Renaissance generally. Many good links to other sites.

Shakespeare Illustrated
An ongoing project to gather for web viewing the many paintings and illustrations of scenes and characters from Shakespeare's plays.

Norton Anthology 16th century)
Supplementary text and images:  "The Magician, the Heretic, and the Playwright: Faustus, Marlowe, and the English Stage."

Norton Anthology (early 17th century)
Supplementary text and images: "Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies."

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
The complete text of Spenser's poem, useful for searching and quoting.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
A comprehensive resource for this productive and brilliant playwright, including his collaborations (e.g., The Changeling, with William Rowley).

Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Literature & Science

Ethno/CA News 
Maintained by Paul ten Have, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. The site reports on scholarship, conferences, and online resources for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, founded by Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An encyclopedia of articles on philosophical concepts and individual philosophers. Maintained by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden at the University of Tennessee, Martin.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A comprehensive collection, still being expanded, of articles on philosophical concepts and individual philosophers. Edited by Edward N. Zalta.

Literature, Cognition & the Brain 
A comprehensive site maintained by Alan Richardson, Department of English, Boston College, author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge UP, forthcoming); Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832 (Cambridge UP, 1994); A Mental Theater: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age (Pennsylvania State UP, 1988).

Philosophy of Mind  
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by David Chalmers, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz. Both Chalmers and his book, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford UP, 1996), were the subject of a conference at SUNY/Buffalo in November, 1999.

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
SLSA brings together scholars from the natural and social sciences, medicine, engineering, computer science, cognitive science, and the humanities to explore shared conceptual and interpretive issues across disciplines. A change in 2004 added the arts to the name of the Society, changing the acronym from SLS to SLSA and reflecting the strong interest of members in painting, architectture, photography, digital art, and the like. The 2001 SLS conference was held in Buffalo, hosted by UB.

Mark Turner 
Institute Professor snd Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Mark Turner is the author of Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science (Oxford UP, 2001); Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton UP, 1991); The Literary Mind (Oxford UP, 1997).