English Links/Language Arts/Journalism

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However, they are not a part of the library's website.

English

Shakespeare Resource Center -Includes information on The Man, The Works, Play Synopses, Shakespeare's Will, Authorship Debate, The Globe, Elizabethan England, Language, and a Reading List.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - A guide to scholarly resources available online. Includes his works, life and times, theatre, criticisms, and information on the Renaaisance. Includes links to timelines.

The Elizabethan Theatre - Information about the indoor and outdoor theatres, the actors, and drama.

Caney Creek's Scavenger Hunt for Romeo and Juliet -Online Scavenger Hunt

Romeo and Juliet Scavenger Hunt -Online Scavenger Hunt

Online Literary Criticism Collection - The Internet Public Library - Browse by author, title, or period

Canterbury Tales - Read the tales online, click on highlighted words to see definitions

Anthology of Middle English Literature - Information on Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Gawain and others. Includes information on Medieval Plays and Lyrics.

InfoPlease Dictionary - Dictionary Search gives you access to more than 125,000 entries, from aalii to zymurgy.

Thesaurus.com - Search either thesaurus or dictionary.

Bartleby.com - combines the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections into a searchable database of over 86,000 entries

Glossary of Literary Terms – Definitions listed alphabetically.

Robin Hood Ballads

Robin Hood Ballads - The Robin Hood Project with Texts, Images, Bibliographies, and Basic Information from The Robbins Library at The University of Rochester. Click on authors to get links to many versions of Robin Hood.

(Francis J. ) Child Ballads - Biography, Lyrics, Tunes and Historical Information

Quotes from Shakespeare

100 Famous Shakespeare Quotes - Click on the quote for explanation and context

Top 50 Shakespeare Quotes - Arranged in descending order of popularity according to the webpage.

William Shakespeare Selected Quotes - Quotes arranged by subject.

Absolute Shakespeare - Quotes grouped by work.

Bartleby.com - Quotes arranged by work and a search tool at the top of the page

Explore Shakespeare - Links to Shakespeare sites

Style guides

EasyBib – Creates a bibliography using MLA Format.

Citation Styles Online! – Examples citing online sources using MLA format.

Writing Center MLA Format – Guide to documenting sources using MLA format.

Journalism

NewsLink

Links to Newspapers (can be viewed by state) and magazines

Also links to newspapers in other countries.

The Internet Public Library Online Newspapers

Links to newspapers by country or state

New York Times/Student Connections

Check out the Daily News Quiz and News Summaries from the day's top news stories

The Pulitzer Prizes Homepage - The archives have full texts, photographs, biographies, and cartoons available for Journalism winners from 1995-2001 only. Winners' names and citations for any year The Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded (1917- present) are also included.

CAPTURE THE MOMENT:PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PHOTOGRAPHS

Camera Works - Washington Post

Choose to look at the past 24 hours in photos, the week in review, or look at the Best of the Post ( From the National Zoo's new pandas to the Pentagon under attack, relive the local and international events of 2001 through the eyes of The Washington Post.)

New York Times - Photos

View the Year in Pictures 2001, look at several photographers' journals, and other special collections like scenes from the sixties.