The Great Vowel Shift [by Melinda J. Menzer (Furman University)]
Proper Elizabethan & Basic Faire Accents
History of Early Modern English [characteristics, people, events, references]
Andrew Zurcher, English Handwriting Online 1500-1700 [free 28 lessons, 'designed for students and scholars of early modern English letters, history, theology, and philosophy']
The National Archives – Paleography: Reading and handwriting 1500-1800 ['This web tutorial will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800.']
Bodleian Libraries, Paleography tutorial & exercises ['This interactive palaeography tutorial is a beginner's guide to a form of Tudor and Stuart handwriting known as Secretary Hand.']
J. M. Pressley, Shakespeare Resource Center [Works, Life, Historical, Performance, Features]
Absolute Shakespeare ['the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre']
Warren King, No Sweat Shakespeare [Resources, Plays, Sonnets, Quotes, Stratford, ebooks, Blog, Shop]
Electronic Shakespeare: Resources for Researchers
Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language [a project at the University of Lancaster (UK), which adopts corpus- based approach to afford fresh insights into Shakespeare's language at multiple levels]
135 Phrases coined by William Shakespeare
C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines ['an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies -- that is, the "long 18th century," which extends roughly from 1660 to 1830']
Restoration & Eighteenth Century [a site maintained by Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)]
Eighteenth-Century England ['a site created by and for literature students at the University of Michigan']
English Literature on the Web [maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka (Nagoya University); includes links to e-texts and concordances of works from the Late Modern English period]
The Dickens Page [also maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka]
Samuel Johnson [maintained by Jack Lynch (Rutgers University); the full texts of the Plan and Preface to the 1755 Dictionary are available]
The Spectator Project [currently under way at the Montclair State University]