We're pleased that attention has here been drawn to the University of
Pernnsylvania Library's website. This site has a growing corpus of
Renaissance e-texts (scanned facsimiles) freely available for use.
> According to the Elizabethan E-text site
> (http://home.earthlink.net/~mark_alex/e-texts.htm), Gosson's 1582 Playes
> Confuted in fiue Actions is posted at
> http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/gosson/, but that's all of him
> that seems to be on the Web.
A correct current URL (the comma mistakenly included above would also not
have helped anyone searching for the Gosson) is
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/furness/
The site, constantly evolving, is worth some exploration by readers of
this list. Even though the URL does have an unhappy tendency to change, it
can always be "re-found" as a subset of the Library's website --
http://www.library.upenn.edu/
On the main page which that URL takes you to you will find a link that
takes you in its turn to the SCHOENBERG CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXT &
IMAGE. Click there on COLLECTIONS; click next on FURNESS SHAKESPEARE
LIBRARY; then, to see what's available, click on BROWSE.
The site, directed by Rebecca Bushnell (Department of English) and Michael
Ryan (Rare Books and Manuscripts), has been supported by the University of
Pennsylvania Library and by Lawrence J. Schoenberg. (Incidentally, anyone
also interested in older MSS might click on LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG
COLLECTION, currently to be seen on the site just to the right of the link
to the FURNESS SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY.) Public funding has come from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. A few other libraries have also
cooperated in building the site (see, e.g., *The Jew of Malta* 1633,
mounted here through the kindness of Lehigh University's Linderman
Library). The Furness site even contains sample lesson plans. These try to
suggest means of using the resources we have mounted in classes lacking
first-hand access to such primary materials. Curricula directed at high
school as well as undergraduate classes are in process of ongoing
development.
As you will see, feedback on the site is positively WELCOME.
Daniel Traister, Curator, Research Services
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania
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