early modern, 1500-1700

Presents pronunciations for over two thousand alphabetized words found in Shakespeare's plays, and includes a section on accents, dialects, and foreign languages.

Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.

Provides a representative selection of criticism available on some of the principal 17th-century English poets.

Presents the record of the man and the works of the artist in relation to comparable figures of his day.

Chronicles the life of William Shakespeare and discusses his courtship and marriage to Anne Hathaway, his relationship with his daughters, his writing, and his development as an artist.

Presents several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare including background notes, explanations, and more.

Presents the life of the famous English playwright and discusses some of his notable works.

An anthology of poems about slavery, written between 1660 and 1810, featuring over four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works by more than 250 poets from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic, including women, African and African-American, and canonical writers.