Some helpful web sites for English 205:
1. Selections from Beowulf read in Old English
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Beowulf.Readings/Beowulf.Readings.html
Google: Beowulf audio Old English
2. Selections from Beowulf read in modern English by translator, Seamus Heaney
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/audio.htm
Google: Beowulf in Modern English
3. Interlinear translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Middle English + Modern English)
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/tr-index.htm
Google: Canterbury Tales interlinear translation
4. Selections from The Canterbury Tales read in Middle English
http://www.vmi.edu/fswebs.aspx?tid=34099&id=34249
Google: Canterbury Tales metapage audio files
5. Biographies, works, and critical essays for all EN 205 writers
http://www.luminaria.com
Google: luminaria literature
6. Study guides from California Polytechnic on Beowulf, Chaucer, etc.
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl330/330home.html#guides
Google: Study guides Chaucer
7. Modern adaptation of The Second Shepherd's Play
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/215/ssp.htm
Google: The Second Shepherd's Play translation
8. Notes on Medieval Drama (For additional help with Second Shepherd's Play)
http://www.montreat.edu/dking/MiddleEnglishLit/NotesonMedievalDrama.htm
Google: Notes on Medieval Drama Second Shepherd's Play
9. Overview of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Surrey
http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/thomas_wyatt_and_henry_howard.htm
Google: Wyatt and Surrey Goucher
10. Sir Phillip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (individual sonnets with commentary)
http://garts.latech.edu/bmagee/201/sidney/stella_&_notes.html
Google: Astrophil and Stella LA Tech
11. About the sonnet (A brief introduction)
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/sonnet.htm
Google: About the sonnet
12. Shakespeare's sonnets (click on picture next to sonnet for commentary)
www.shakespeares-sonnets.com
13. Text of each Shakespearean sonnet beside modern translation www.nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets
