Category: Website of the Week

And now for our milestone Website of the Week (WoW) #100……

And now for our milestone Website of the Week (WoW) #100…

The Performing the Queen’s Men Project gathered together a group of scholars and theater professionals to stage three of the plays done by the original “all-star” troupe that toured Elizabethan England. The plays were rehearsed and produced in conditions approximating those of the original company based on current understanding of Elizabethan production practice.

The website is interactive, with modules taking the user through the company’s decision-making processes, specific production techniques, or allowing the user to explore issues raised by the project.

This 100th WoW echoes our very first which coincidentally also involved theater in Canada (see our posts from June 20, 2011). We look forward to sharing more WoWs with you as we continue our indexing.


Performing the Queen’s Men
thequeensmen.mcmaster.ca
The Queen’s Men was an all-star troupe of Elizabethan actors formed in 1583. The troupe toured England for twenty years performing its plays at court, in the new London theatres, and in city halls, manor houses and inn-yards across the nation.

And now for our milestone Website of the Week (WoW) #100…

The Performing the Queen’s Men Project gathered together a group of scholars and theater professionals to stage three of the plays done by the original “all-star” troupe that toured Elizabethan England. The plays were rehearsed and produced in conditions approximating those of the original company based on current understanding of Elizabethan production practice.

The website is interactive, with modules taking the user through the company’s decision-making processes, specific production techniques, or allowing the user to explore issues raised by the project.

This 100th WoW echoes our very first which coincidentally also involved theater in Canada (see our posts on Facebook from June 20, 2011). We look forward to sharing more WoWs with you as we continue our indexing.


Performing the Queen’s Men
thequeensmen.mcmaster.ca
The Queen’s Men was an all-star troupe of Elizabethan actors formed in 1583. The troupe toured England for twenty years performing its plays at court, in the new London theatres, and in city halls, manor houses and inn-yards across the nation.

Website of the Week (WoW) #99: Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol

Website of the Week (WoW) #99: Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol

Even if you’re not a country and folk music scholar, you can tap your toes along with these fiddlers and banjo players and learn how the term “hillbilly” became used to describe their music.

Coming next week … WoW #100!


Hillbilly Music
www.lib.unc.edu
Hillbilly Music brings together stories, sounds and images of country folk music as it developed from oral tradition to recorded style in the 1920s.

Website of the Week (WoW) #99: Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol

Even if you’re not a country and folk music scholar, you can tap your toes along with these fiddlers and banjo players and learn how the term “hillbilly” became used to describe their music.

Coming next week … WoW #100!


Hillbilly Music
www.lib.unc.edu
Hillbilly Music brings together stories, sounds and images of country folk music as it developed from oral tradition to recorded style in the 1920s.

Website of the Week (WoW) #98: The Vernon Manuscript

Website of the Week (WoW) #98: The Vernon Manuscript contains 370 texts of poetry and prose and reflects the English West Midlands dialect. But the mystery remains who was it made for and why? View the Bodleian online exhibition.The Vernon Manuscript: …

Website of the Week (WoW) #98: The Vernon Manuscript contains 370 texts of poetry and prose and reflects the English West Midlands dialect. But the mystery remains who it was made for and why. View the Bodleian online exhibition.


The Vernon Manuscript: A Literary Hoard from Medieval England
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
The Vernon manuscript is one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures and one of the most important books in English to survive from the medieval period.

Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Where did the English word ‘law’ come from? Why the Old Norse ‘lagu’, of course. You can find out about loanwords in English and 40 other languages in the World Loanwords Database.


WOLD – World Loanword Database
wold.livingsources.org
The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich (2009).

Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Where did the English word ‘law’ come from? Why the Old Norse ‘lagu’, of course. You can find out about loanwords in English and 40 other languages in the World Loanwords Database.


WOLD – World Loanword Database
wold.livingsources.org
The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich (2009).

Website of the Week (WoW) #96: Database of Bookbindings

Website of the Week (WoW) #96: Database of Bookbindings

From the British Library’s extensive collection of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date.

For a contemporary treat, search keyword “Frankenstein” to see a fantastic painted binding from 2001 for Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.


Database of Bookbindings
www.bl.uk
The site provides an online source of information and a finding aid to bookbindings in the British Library. Images and searchable text relating to selected bindings continue to be added.

Website of the Week (WoW) #96: Database of Bookbindings

From the British Library’s extensive collection of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date.

For a contemporary treat, search keyword “Frankenstein” to see a fantastic painted binding from 2001 for Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.


Database of Bookbindings
www.bl.uk
The site provides an online source of information and a finding aid to bookbindings in the British Library. Images and searchable text relating to selected bindings continue to be added.

Website of the Week (WoW) #95: The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project…

Website of the Week (WoW) #95: The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project This interdisciplinary project investigated the relationships between vocabulary, artefact a…

Website of the Week (WoW) #95: The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project

This interdisciplinary project investigated the relationships between vocabulary, artefact and image for medieval textiles in England. It studied the genesis and subsequent development of the vocabulary through the early languages of Britain (Old and Middle English; Welsh, Old Irish and minor Celtic languages; Anglo-Norman/French, Medieval Latin, Anglo-Norse).


(Lexis Project – The University of Manchester)
lexisproject.arts.manchester.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #94: Jonathan Swift Archive

Website of the Week (WoW) #94 Take a peek into this online archive for the poet, satirist, and political writer Jonathan Swift. All digitized works (some in various editions) are searchable and include…

Website of the Week (WoW) #94

Take a peek into this online archive for the poet, satirist, and political writer Jonathan Swift. All digitized works (some in various editions) are searchable and include an editorial introduction.

Jonathan Swift Archive
jonathanswiftarchive.org.uk
The archive is an electronic supplement to the printed Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift, 18 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2008-).

Website of the Week (WoW) #93: Napoleonic Satires

Website of the Week (WoW) #93: This digitized collection consists of mostly British but also French, German, and Russian satiric prints created to vilify Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France.Napoleonic Satireslibrary.brown.eduNapoleonic Satires

Website of the Week (WoW) #93: This digitized collection consists of mostly British but also French, German, and Russian satiric prints created to vilify Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France.


Napoleonic Satires
library.brown.edu
Napoleonic Satires

Website of the Week (WoW) #92: Literary Map of Africa

Website of the Week (W0W) #92: Ohio State University Libraries brings us this searchable database of writers from all regions of Africa and includes lists of their works, interviews with them, and prizes won.Literary Map of Africalibrary.osu.eduA bio-b…

Website of the Week (W0W) #92: Ohio State University Libraries brings us this searchable database of writers from all regions of Africa and includes lists of their works, interviews with them, and prizes won.


Literary Map of Africa
library.osu.edu
A bio-bibliographical database, designed to be a comprehensive research and information tool on African literature

Website of the Week (WoW) #91: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe

Website of the Week (WoW) #91: Interactivity is a hallmark of this site that maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house, as a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.


The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
chop.leeds.ac.uk
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.

Website of the Week (WoW) #91: Interactivity is a hallmark of this site that maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house, as a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.


The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
chop.leeds.ac.uk
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.