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Website of the Week (WoW) #156: The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Website of the Week (WoW) #156: The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

One hundred years ago today, the opening declaration of war was made in what would become the First Wold War. World War I “runs through the British modern-day psyche like no other conflict … It has been described as Britain’s ‘Vietnam’, where the true horror of War touched everyone and everything in the country, breaking through the class barrier and irreversibly altering the social structure of the nation.” The archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.


First World War Poetry Digital Archive
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

Website of the Week (WoW) #156: The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

One hundred years ago today, the opening declaration of war was made in what would become the First Wold War. World War I “runs through the British modern-day psyche like no other conflict … It has been described as Britain’s ‘Vietnam’, where the true horror of War touched everyone and everything in the country, breaking through the class barrier and irreversibly altering the social structure of the nation.” The archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.


First World War Poetry Digital Archive
www.oucs.ox.ac.uk
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

Website of the Week (WoW) #151: Virtual Paul’s Cross Project

Website of the Week (WoW) #151: Virtual Paul’s Cross Project

Experience public preaching in early modern London, by listening to John Donne’s “Sermon on the Gunpowder Plot” as it might have sounded to a listener standing in the crowd that day in Paul’s Cross Churchyard. This Project uses architectural modeling software and acoustic simulation software to give us access experientially to a particular event from the past – the Paul’s Cross sermon John Donne delivered on Tuesday, November 5th, 1622.


Virtual Pauls Cross Website | Virtual Paul’s Cross Website
vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu
The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project enables us to experience the delivery of John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622 as an event that unfolds over time on a particular occasion in Paul’s Churchyard, the specific physical location for which it was composed.

Website of the Week (WoW) #151: Virtual Paul’s Cross Project

Experience public preaching in early modern London, by listening to John Donne’s “Sermon on the Gunpowder Plot” as it might have sounded to a listener standing in the crowd that day in Paul’s Cross Churchyard. This Project uses architectural modeling software and acoustic simulation software to give us access experientially to a particular event from the past – the Paul’s Cross sermon John Donne delivered on Tuesday, November 5th, 1622.


Virtual Pauls Cross Website
vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu
The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project enables us to experience the delivery of John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622 as an event that unfolds over time on a particular occasion in Paul’s Churchyard, the specific physical location for which it was composed.

Website of the Week (WoW) #148: Dickens Journals Online

Website of the Week (WoW) #148: Dickens Journals Online

Read and search the complete online edition of Dickens’s weekly magazines, All the Year Round and Household Words (including its supplements Household Narrative and Household Words Almanac). There’s also biographical material about authors published in the magazines and related scholarship.


Welcome to DJO
www.djo.org.uk
A complete online edition of Dickens’s weekly magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round.

Website of the Week (WoW) #148: Dickens Journals Online

Read and search the complete online edition of Dickens's weekly magazines, All the Year Round and Household Words (including its supplements Household Narrative and Household Words Almanac). There's also biographical material about authors published in the magazines and related scholarship.


Welcome to DJO
www.djo.org.uk
A complete online edition of Dickens's weekly magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round.

Canterbury Tales and “Game of Thrones”

In this short video, Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he and others in his field see of the Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d’Arthur and Beowulf in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched the first three seasons, you will learn what happens to certain characters.


What does a medieval literature scholar read into ‘Game of Thrones?’ | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour
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The land of Westeros may seem far off for fans of “Game of Thrones,” but as season four of HBO’s show successful is gearing up to start on Sunday, Art Beat learned it may not be as distant as one might think.

In this short video, Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he and others in his field see of the Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d’Arthur and Beowulf in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched the first three seasons, you will learn what happens to certain characters.


What does a medieval literature scholar read into ‘Game of Thrones?’ | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour
www.pbs.org
The land of Westeros may seem far off for fans of “Game of Thrones,” but as season four of HBO’s show successful is gearing up to start on Sunday, Art Beat learned it may not be as distant as one might think.

Website of the Week (WoW) #141: How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris

Website of the Week (WoW) #141: How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris Artist, author, social activist, teacher, designer, craftsman, printer, bibliophile, preservationist, translator, and literary scholar. Visit this online exhibition on Wil…

Website of the Week (WoW) #141: How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris

Artist, author, social activist, teacher, designer, craftsman, printer, bibliophile, preservationist, translator, and literary scholar. Visit this online exhibition on William Morris, the visionary who sought to return to an idealized society inspired by the aesthetic of the Middle Ages.


How We Might Live: The Vision of William Morris
www.lib.umd.edu
This digital exhibit examines the life and vision of William Morris (1834-1896). It focuses on his written works, political activism and artistic endeavors.

450 Years of Shakespeare

Get ready for a BIG birthday … to celebrate William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing images and quotes from all 38 of his plays all this month on Pinterest.


Folger Shakespeare Library on Pinterest
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Get ready for a BIG birthday … to celebrate William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing a play (or more) each day with images and quotes from all 38 of his plays all this month on Pinterest.


Folger Shakespeare Library on Pinterest
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Recreating the Jacobean Theater

Recreating the Jacobean theater in London, candles and all.


As Shakespeare liked it
www.economist.com
DRENCHED in blood, littered with corpses and illuminated by candlelight: for the first time, modern audiences can enjoy an indoor production of John Webster’s “The…

Recreating the Jacobean theater in London, candles and all.


As Shakespeare liked it
www.economist.com
DRENCHED in blood, littered with corpses and illuminated by candlelight: for the first time, modern audiences can enjoy an indoor production of John Webster’s “The…

Website of the Week #134: Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition

Website of the Week #134: Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition

Read Wroth’s poems from the Folger manuscript, the “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” sequence at the end of the published version of Urania Part One, and the poems that are scattered throughout the narrative of Urania Part One. This edition includes modern language versions of these poems as well.


Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition – La Trobe University
wroth.latrobe.edu.au
English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University

Website of the Week #134: Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition

Read Wroth’s poems from the Folger manuscript, the “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” sequence at the end of the published version of Urania Part One, and the poems that are scattered throughout the narrative of Urania Part One. This edition includes modern language versions of these poems as well.


Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition – La Trobe University
wroth.latrobe.edu.au
English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University

Website of the Week (WoW) #132: Noël Coward at the New York Public Library

Website of the Week (WoW) #132: Noël Coward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

“Strange how potent cheap music is.” — from Private Lives
The New York Public Library has a large collection of material related to Noël Coward, especially photographs of original and revival productions of his plays and musicals which it has been able to digitize and put together in this online exhibition.


Noël Coward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
exhibitions.nypl.org
This special web exhibition celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century–Sir Noël Coward.

Website of the Week (WoW) #132: Noël Coward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

“Strange how potent cheap music is.” — from Private Lives
The New York Public Library has a large collection of material related to Noël Coward, especially photographs of original and revival productions of his plays and musicals which it has been able to digitize and put together in this online exhibition.


Noël Coward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
exhibitions.nypl.org
This special web exhibition celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century–Sir Noël Coward.

Happy Birthday A.A. Milne

This week saw the birthday of children’s author A.A. Miilne, creator of that philosophical bear Winnie-the-Pooh who is so very fond of honey. On a cold day, enjoy some warm fuzzies courtesy of A.A. Milne and Pooh.


A.A. Milne Quotes (Author of Winnie-the-Pooh)
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214 quotes from A.A. Milne: ‘If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.’, ‘Piglet sid…

This week saw the birthday of children’s author A.A. Milne, creator of that philosophical bear Winnie-the-Pooh who is so very fond of honey. On a cold day, enjoy some warm fuzzies courtesy of A.A. Milne and Pooh.


A.A. Milne Quotes (Author of Winnie-the-Pooh)
www.goodreads.com
214 quotes from A.A. Milne: ‘If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.’, ‘Piglet sid…