Texts and Editions
Print Editions
Early English Text Society (EETS)
Middle and Early Modern English Texts
Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age ['The editorial team will produce an eight-volume, original-spelling, carefully annotated edition of Behn's writings with Cambridge University Press, as well as reader-selected original- and modern-spelling anthologies.']
Diachronic
Project Gutenberg [editions from previous centuries can be accessed]
Oxford Text Archive (OTA) ['a repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources']
Historical Texts ['Search, view and download over 460,000 late C15th - C19th texts from EEBO, ECCO, BL 19th century and UK Medical Heritage Library.']
RPO: Representative Poetry Online ['a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years']
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature [links to online texts (Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, Restoration) and study resources]
Labyrinth [provides links to major Old and Middle English texts]
Early Print ['transform the early English print record, from 1473 to the early 1700s, into a linguistically annotated and deeply searchable text corpus']
The Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET)
In Parenthesis [PDF versions of texts and translations of some major works are available under 'Old English Series' and 'Middle English Series']
Women Writers Online ['a full-text collection of early women's writing in English, published between 1526 and 1850']
Early American Imprints ['contains virtually every known book, pamphlet and broadside published in America between 1639 and the first two decades of the 19th century—more than 75,000 printed items in all'; see also Evans-TCP]
Old English
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry [links to texts from Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records]
The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (OCOEP) [The general editor is Murray McGillivray (University of Calgary). 'When completed, the project will present all known Old English poems and poetic lines in bare-bones editions with clickable glosses (each word of each poem will be clickable and connected to a glossary) and minimal, mainly textual notes.']
The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest ['a digital, dynamic edition of an Old English text that adapts to each different learner to offer an appropriate level of challenge']
Middangeard: Anthology of Old English Texts in Translations into Modern English
Kevin Kiernan, Electronic Beowulf 4.0 ['a free, online version of Electronic Beowulf that supersedes all previous editions': manuscript, transcript, edition with translation, glossary, metre etc.]
Anne Savage, Beowulf in Hypertext [includes the Old and Modern English texts, the cast of characters, historical facts about the poem, text search, etc.]
Benjamin Slade, Beowulf on Steorarume [includes the Old and Modern English texts, glossary, bibliography, etc.]
Beowulf: Some Resources for Study [by Roy M. Liuzza (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); includes study questions and a bibliography]
XML Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Tony Jebson's online edition; 'At present, only the "A" text is reliable.']
The Battle of Brunanburh [maintained by Thomas Kinsella (Stockton College); 'These hypertext pages present the text of the Old-English poem The Battle of Brunanburh along with translations and background information.']
The Wanderer: Edition and Translation [by Tim Romano; includes modern English translation and images from the manuscript]
Anglo-Saxon Riddles [texts, translations, glossary, bibliography, etc. by the Kalamazoo Riddle Group]
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies [edited and translated by Joyce Tally Lionarons (Ursinus College)]
Ælfric's Homilies on Judith, Esther, and The Maccabees [texts, notes, glossary, bibliography, etc. by Stuart D. Lee (University of Oxford)]
Early English Laws ['new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215']
Middle English
TEAMS Middle English Texts Series [ME text series published by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University]
Wessex Parallel WebTexts [editions and translations of ME lyrics; 'Introduction to traditional grammar' is highly useful]
The TOMES Anthology: The Open Medieval Editions by Students Anthology ['The texts in the anthology were transcribed, edited, and translated by BA and MA English and French students at Leiden University, with the direction and guidance of Dr. Krista Murchison.']
The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited for Popular Perusal [presented by Project Gutenberg]
The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer [editions with running glosses]
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) [texts with translations and glossary]
Edwin Duncan, An Electronic Edition of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales [text and translation, with no search function]
The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer: A Reader-friendly Edition [edited by Michael Murphy (Brooklyn College); texts are in modern spelling]
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Miller's Tale [a hypertext edition by Graham D. Caie (University of Glasgow)]
Phoebe Macindoe (University of York), The Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition – Four Witnesses Compared ['highlighting the textual differences across the four witnesses of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess']
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive ['a collaborative open-access project' of critical editions and documentary editions']
The Towneley Plays Project [the online edition of The Creation, The Killing of Abell, Noah, Abraham and Isaac, First Shepherds' Pageant, Second Shepherds' Pageant, Herod the Great, The Buffeting of Christ, each transcribed from the manuscript.]
The Ormulum Project [a project ongoing at Stockholm University, to complete the work by the late Nils-Lennart Johannesson]
Wycliffite Bible: Digital Edition ['a much-needed new edition of the Wycliffite Bible (WB)', project at the University of Oxford]
Early Modern English
Renascence Editions ['an Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799']
Digital Renaissance Editions ['editions include photo-facsimiles and diplomatic transcriptions of early textual witnesses alongside a modern-spelling text with full critical apparatus and generous introductory and supplementary materials']
REED (Records of Early English Drama) Online ['a publication site where records will be freely available to locate, transcribe, edit, and publish historical documents from England, Wales, and Scotland containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and mimetic ceremony from the late Middle Ages until 1642']
A London Provisioner's Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machyn (Richard Bailey et al.) ['a complete inventory of material required by scholars and readers: images of the manuscript, a faithful transcript of those images, and a rendering in modern English of this fascinating document']
Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Letters of William Herle Project ['transcripts of 302 of Herle's letters written in English and a series of indexes by which they can be browsed']
Ibid., The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585-1597 [digital edition of letters from Thomas Bodley's 12 years of diplomatic business in Europe]
Ibid., The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle ['view images and transcripts of the workdiaries, search the workdiary texts, and access reference resources on places, people and books']
Early Stuart Libel ['A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources']
Verse Miscellanies Online ['a searchable critical edition of seven printed verse miscellanies published in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries'; see the project announcement here]
Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) ['a collaboratively populated union catalogue of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century letters']
Women's Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO) ['it is possible now to browse all correspondents in the EMLO union catalogue by gender in any combination of senders, recipients, and individuals mentioned in the texts themselves']
Emory Women Writers Resource Project ['a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century']
Digital Cavendish Project [reading/scholarly editions of the works of Margaret Cavendish, and other resources for research]
Mary Wroth's Poetry – An Electronic Edition [image, transcription and modernisation side by side]
Constructing Elizabeth Isham 1609-1654 ['a web edition of two partially concurrent manuscript diaries written by the same woman, Elizabeth Isham (1609-1654)']
The Folger Shakespeare ['Read the full texts of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems for free from the Folger Shakespeare Library!']
Jeremy Hylton (MIT), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ['the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare']
Internet Shakespeare Editions ['searchable old-spelling transcriptions, modern editions prepared especially for the digital medium, and facsimile images of the original texts']
Eric M. Johnson (George Mason University), Open Source Shakespeare [text search, concordance search, character search]
King James Bible Online ['the standard King James Version (Cambridge edition), along with the original 1611 edition in early modern English']
Bible: King James Version [text based on OTA]
The Authorized Version of 1611
Multilingual Bible [The King James Bible is available for search]
Newton Project ['a full (diplomatic) rendition featuring all the amendments Newton made to his own texts or a more readable (normalised) version']
Richard Brome Online ['an online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome']
Hartlib Papers ['a complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 seventeenth-century manuscripts']
The Diary of Samuel Pepys – Daily Entries from the 17th Century London Diary ['the full text of his diary, along with several letters sent or received by Pepys, plus thousands of pages of further information about the people, places and things in his world']
Late Modern English
University of Manchester, Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers ['The Mary Hamilton Papers are scattered over eleven libraries in Britain and the UK: this project will reunite these papers in a complete, Open-Access scholarly edition.']
Swansea University, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO) ['Our goal is to offer digital unification of Montagu’s extant correspondence, totalling c. 4,000, which is currently held in at least 23 libraries, archives and private collections worldwide.']
Romantic Circles Electronic Editions ['a searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era, enhanced by technology made possible in an online environment. Each edition is based on the highest scholarly standards and is peer-reviewed.']
Cambridge University Library, Darwin Correspondence Project ['A 30-volume print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press, 1985–), will be completed in 2022, .... The letters are made available to read and search on this website four years after print publication.']
Charlotte Brewer, Mapping the Bodleian Library's Murray Papers ['a pilot project to edit the correspondence of J. A. H. Murray (1837-1915), the chief editor of the OED'; see the updated news here.]
Murray Scriptorium ['a pilot edition of the letters and papers of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death']
Jane Austen Info Page [includes texts, biography, bibliography, etc.]