RISORSE WEB sulla letteratura gotica nel periodo romantico e vittoriano

Literary Gothic
a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20.

Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read.  By Douglass Thomson, Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University

The Sickly Taper. By Frederick S. Frank. 

Gothic Studies: the journal of The International Gothic Association

'VER SACRUM' LINKS

Wickedness.Net a comprehensive forum committed to promoting inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary explorations of evil and wickedness

Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase Hosted by The Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection and Institute for Scientific Computation at Texas A&M University the ISFDB is an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books. 

The Monstrous Feminine in Literature and Art

A Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms

History of the theatre
The website accompanies the eighth edition of the book by Oskar Brockett and Franklin Hildy and updates to the text are limited. However the website introduces the alterations of the new ninth edition and has an appendix on the nature of theatre history that is omitted from the text.  The "History of the Theatre" traces the course of dramatic performance from its origins, through European theatre of the Middle Ages, to the dramas of Europe and America in the modern period. It also includes chapters on Asian and African theatre. This website is a companion to this important book, and has a twofold aim. Firstly, to provide updates to the text, and secondly to deploy new technology to develop new approaches to the study of the theatre. The website is of principal value for its list of links, organised chapter by chapter. 

History of drama Website at Emory University

London Stage Project 1800-1900 A Documentary Record and Calendar of Performances
A growing compilation of essential information on English drama and theatre of the nineteenth century. The focus is the professional stage in London - theatres, plays, performances, and audiences. Sources of information include playbills and programs, printed texts, promptbooks, licensing copies, acting editions, the periodical press, and a further range of documents and pictorial evidence. Under the direction of its General Editor, Joseph Donohue, THE LONDON STAGE 1800 - 1900 RESEARCH PROGRAM serves to collect this evidence systematically and make it available to scholars. A long-term goal is a daily calendar of performances on the nineteenth-century London stage, detailing production information for every theatre, music hall, and other places of theatrical entertainment.Current resources affliated or produced by the Project include: 

• The Adelphi Theatre Calendar, a complete calendar documenting the day to day history of the Adelphi Theatre.
• Paul Buczkowski's bibliographical lists of Periodicals in London from 1800 to 1810. 
• A Databank of basic information concerning theatres in operation between 1800 and 1810. 

The London stage, 1660-1800 : a new version of part 2, 1700-1729 by Robert D. Hume(Pennsylvania State University) Based on: Avery, Emmett L., ed. The London Stage, 1660-1800 : Part 2, 1700-1729. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960. 
This Web site hosts the draft text of the new version of the second part of 'The London stage, 1660-1800'. The original work was an authoritative multi-volume guide to the plays and theatre history of the Restoration and eighteenth century in London, first published in the 1960s and 70s. The section of the new edition made available here covers the period between 1700 and 1729, although at the time of review only the first decade of the century had been fully described. The text is being edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume.The text is divided by theatre season, with a pdf document for each. The authors go into considerable detail, devoting around 60 pages to each season's events and productions. The chapters follow a standard structure. First, there is a general introduction to the fortunes of the various London playhouses during the year. After this, there is a chronological listing of all performances staged, with information about actors and incidents. This is interspersed with details of publications or events that had an impact on the theatre world, such as pamphlets attacking the immorality of the stage. Each chapter ends with an index of plays, followed by a general index, ensuring that the text is suited for use as a reference work.

Theatre History on the Web
A Resource for Theatre Historians and Students of the Theatre's History. By Jack Wolcott University of Washington School of Drama.

A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies By Ken McCoy Associate Professor Communication Studies and Theatre Arts Stetson University

The Theater Studies Research Guide from Yale University Library

The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama. Pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages.

ARTSLYNX International Art Resources: Theatre Resources by Richard Finkelstein, James Madison University.
 
The E-Server for Drama. This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. The EServer, founded in 1990, is now based at Iowa State University.

Theatre Connections by J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina Charlotte

The Internet Theatre Database

19th Century Actors Photographs
The 19th Century Actors Photographs collection consists of 610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.

British Women Playwrights around 1800
by Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. A website that facilitates scholarship and discussion of these neglected playwrights and supports the work of theatre history and Romantic studies scholars engaged in exploring how electronic editing, resources, and collaboration can enhance scholarship and teaching about this segment of dramaturgical history.

University of Washington School of Drama : The 19th Century London Stage: An Exploration.
The 19th Century London Stage has resulted from the convergence of research interests in the 19th century British theatre, interests supported by a collection of over 1,800 19th century British play scripts in the School of Drama Library; in hypertext theory and applications; and in the potential of the World Wide Web as an environment for scholarly working groups. The project, which was started in 1994, has been carried on by two groups of PhD students in Theatre History and Dramatic 
theory.

The First 100 Years: The Professional Female Playwright
explores the work and dramatic lives of professional women playwrights who began writing for the English stage in the 17th & 18th Century.

Performance translation centre: A project on performance translation on the British Stage from 1800 to the present. 
Taking as a base, performances in the Hull Theatre Royal in the nineteenth century, the project aims to identify English texts of foreign plays from over 22,000 records. The Web site also features an article entitled "Translation and the British Stage; or How to Deform Esmeralda" which is an initial summary of results of a survey of playbills from the Hull Theatre Royal. The Hypertext Translation Page contains the first of a series of translations - Tom Taylor's "Ticket-of-Leave Man" and the French source "Le Retour de Melun" by Édouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre .

The Globe website
This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London, it includes pages devoted to the original Globe and other playhouses in Early Modern London, reports and photographic documentaries on reconstruction and performances at the New Globe, and also some practical information

The World of London Theater--1660-1800
a collaborative project produced by the students of Patricia Craddock's course LIT 3041, Spring semester, 1996, at the University of Florida and developed by graduate students in the Fall semester,2000.

PALATINE : Theatre Crafts, Design & Technology
published within the framework of the Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network, contains a series of links (often accompanied by short descriptions) to resources of interest to learners and teachers of various aspects of the performing arts. 

British Society of Stage Designers

English plays, 1660-1900 Editor : Meaney, Kenneth (University of Joensuu, Finland)
This Web site hosts the text of Richard Cumberland's comedy, 'The West Indian', Matthew Lewis's 'The Castle Spectre', and Edward Moore's 'The Gamester' are planned additions. 

Glossary of Technical theatre Terms

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, has significant holdings of eighteenth-century English books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, watercolors, and paintings. A leading non-circulating research library for English eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole, it was bequeathed to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis. Almost every aspect of the eighteenth century is covered by the library's holdings. The centerpiece of the book collections is Horace Walpole's own considerable antiquarian's library from his famous house at Strawberry Hill. About three-quarters of the traceable volumes (nearly one half of the original total of 7,000) are arranged in their original shelf order. They include important collections of pamphlets and tracts, documenting the political history of Walpole's times, and of plays of the period, in a comprehensive set known as The Theatre of George the 3d

The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction
Focusing on English writers and imprints, it is unique in its coverage of minor authors writing in this genre and in its holdings of original and subsequent editions of their works. Although its holdings consist mainly of English imprints issued from 1765 to 1830, it also contains American, French, and German editions dating from this time period. While known primarily as the product of the bibliographer and book collector Michael Sadleir, the Sadleir-Black Collection owes its strength to three individuals. Sadleir created the collection and established its parameters. The estate of his close friend Arthur Hutchinson supplied whole runs of titles, and Robert Kerr Black added the better known titles and authors after purchasing the collection in 1937. Black gave the collection to the University of Virginia Library in 1942. Upon his death in 1975, he left the University Library a small legacy to purchase additional books for the collection.

William W. Appleton Collection of Early British Theater Letters (1773-1853) from Columbia University
The 44 letters relate to British theater in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, dating from 1773 to 1853. The collection is divided into five series: I. Letters to William Kenneth (8); II. Letters to or about Richard Brinsley Sheridan (3); III. Letters to James Winston (5); IV. Theatrical letters arranged alphabetically by sender (26); and V. Non-theatrica l letters (2). The two letters in the 5th series are a letter from a solicitor to Lady Emma Hamilton dated 1806 and a letter from Irish poet Thomas Moore dated 1832. Most of the theatrical letters deal with the engagement of players and theater personnel.

The Nineteenth Century Collection. 
This special site gives you free access to an online catalogue of over 25,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. It allows you to search the largest and most important collection of nineteenth-century works for research and teaching. The Nineteenth Century is a thirty-year publishing programme which reproduces on microfiche a significant proportion of English-language works first published between 1801-1900. The Programme is situated at the British Library, and it is the holdings of this great library that form the basis of the Programme.

Chawton House Library and Study Centre
Chawton House Library contains over 9,000 volumes. The bulk of the Collection is devoted to early English women's writing from the period 1600-1830.

The Theatre Library Association
a non-profit, educational organization established in 1937 to promote the collection, preservation, and use of theatrical and performing arts materials

National Museum of the Performing Arts. National Video Archive of Performance 

The University of Glasgow Scottish Theatre Archive
The Scottish Theatre Archive forms part of the Special Collections Department of the University of Glasgow.  Its role is to help preserve and promote interest in Scotland's theatrical heritage by providing a safe home for archival material and by making it accessible to all those interested in Scottish Theatre.  It also acts as a major information centre for enquiries related to theatre in Scotland providing information from its holdings or by directing researchers to other repositories.  The Archive is open to anyone with an interest in Scottish theatre.

Emory Women Writers Resource Project
a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century

The Orlando Project
is a collaborative undertaking, involving participants from universities in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia.. It is writing the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles. At the same time, it is conducting an experiment in humanities computing and providing both training and scholarly community for graduate students. The project will provide an overarching account of women's writing across the centuries. This will appear in the form of four individually authored volumes of history together with an extensive, collaboratively authored, electronic textbase

Women Writers Project
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.

A Celebration of Women Witers
The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women

Women's Studies Resources by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa

Women's Studies Section
Association of College & Research Libraries / American Library Association

British women's novels : a reading list, 1775-1818 
This web site provides a chronological list of some of the more interesting novels by British women published between 1775 and 1818. A synopsis is provided for each novel, along with hyperlinks to portraits of the author and pages of historical and cultural background. The link from Frances Burney's "Cecilia" takes the user to an online study guide written by the list's compiler, Cathy Decker. Several of the date links take the user to pages on contemporary women's fashions. Unfortunately, some of the other links merely jump to the relevant Amazon.com bookseller's page. Many of the featured novels are gothic historical romances or have feminist themes. Featured writers include Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Jane Porter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Isabella Kelly, Regina Maria Roche, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

C18-L
an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies that works by circulating posted messages via e-mail to all subscribers. This is how it works, briefly: when you subscribe, your name is enrolled by our mailing program and whenever any subscriber sends C18-L a message, you get a copy 

VICTORIA: The Electronic Conference for Victorian Studies