English Language and Literature
e-Magazine
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This subscription website for A level English now offers emag past (archive), emagplus (extra articles for website subscribers), and emagclips (a library of video clips of texts and topics) .
Poetry
Poetry Archive
This is notable for its collection of poets reading their own work, but also includes background reading and some interviews. There is also a children's poetry archive.
Poetry Society
Information about getting published, events, and a selection of articles from Poetry Magazine.
Drama
Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
e-Magazine - A keyword search produces 4 articles on various aspects of the play.
Duchess of Malfi - Larry Brown is Professor of Theatre, Nashville. Includes: complete text with notes and commentary; the site divides the text into individual scenes, with the notes accessible by clicking on hyperlinks in the text. This simple site is a fast and useful tool for scholars working on Webster.
Renaissance Journal A full-text academic ejournal, published by the University of Warwick "in association with the AHRC Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures". Although the journal appears to have ceased in 2005, there are contact details for the Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures at the University of Warwick.
See: Ben Spiller's article "Inconstant Identities on the South Bank: The Duchess of Malfi and the Homeless Visitor".
The Tragic Indeterminacy of the Duchess of Malfi
taken from "The Skull Beneath the Skin" Charles Forker. 1986. Southern Illinois University. In Google books; a lengthy excerpt. Scroll down the page to contents, the extract begins on page 296.
John Webster 1578-1630s A quirky site but worth exploring. Created by by Spanish Webster enthusiasts (hence some spelling mistakes!), it includes: biography of Webster with hyperlinks to pages about the people and places he knew; links to sites containing the full-texts of Webster's plays, and plays by his contemporaries; the historical background to Webster's writings and a basic timeline spanning 1558 to 1700; links to information about Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses and companies active during the period; a guide to the genres of drama; a bibliography; a page of essays about Webster and reviews of his plays.
Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
Emagazine online
Churchill, C. Top Girls. Article arguing that Caryl Churchill's 'playful theatre' raises serious issues emagazine 15, February 2002 20th century drama.
Top Girls – beyond its context Mike Fynes-Clinton
emagazine 37, September 2007, New online September 2008, women, feminism, struggle for identity
Brechtian theatricality in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. From emagazine 43, February 2009 – see downloadable pdf. Added to the archive September 2009
Caryl Churchill Contemporary writers.com
This British Council site contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK, Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland's most important living writers,as well as writers from other regions. Included are biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prize information and photographs.
The Language of Caryl Churchill: the Rhythms of Feminist Theory, Acting Theory, and Gender Politics. John A Price. An online article in womenwriters.net, which is an e-zine devoted to women writers; some original work, and reviews as well.
Top Girls – Maier Christina Maria Maier was a student at Washington State University. This useful website was created by her in November 2000. On the last page she mentions other weblinks but they are broken.
Top Girls Summary and Study Guide Based into Seattle, enotes.com is a subscription site but the excerpts which you can see without subscribing may prove useful. It says that "content is all fact-checked, edited, and written by professionals who are experts in their field."
Literature
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan.com The author's own website featuring books and articles by and about the author and his work, including "Atonement". Long bibliography and list of links to criticism of the text.
British Council Contemporary Writers Biography, bibliography, critical perspective.
"Briony's Stand Against Oblivion": Ian McEwan's Atonement. Brian Finney, California State University.
The Complete Review. "A selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old and new, trying to meet all your book review, preview, and information needs". This site indexes reviews of the novel.
Atonement – John Mullan. A series of four articles originally published in the Guardian.
'Between the Lines', Guardian, 8 March 2003
'Looking Forward to the Past', Guardian, 15 March 2003
'Turning up the Heat', Guardian, 22 March 2003
'Beyond Fiction', Guardian, 29 March 2003
Authortrek
Authortrek calls itself "the home of author profiles and interviews, reading guides and reviews" and has a useful list of links. See also the Ian McEwan page.