Resources for the Study of 17th-Century Literature – Parent/Teacher Preparation

Shakespeare, General
The Authority with Joseph Pierce – William Shakespeare
Catholic Education Resource Center – Desires Run Not Before Honor

Shakespeare, Sonnets
Shakespeare’s Sonnets read by John Gielgud, incomplete / #asonnetaday for any missing sonnets
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Secret to Immortality
Hardcore Literature Podcast – How to Read a Shakespearean Sonnet

Shakespeare, The Tempest
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Shakespeare’s The Tempest”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Liberal Education and Politics: The Case of “The Tempest”
EWTN’s Great Books Every Catholic Should Know – “Saints and Sinners”
Shakespeare Play by Play – The Tempest
Course Hero – The Tempes
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The Imaginative Conservative – “Shakespeare vs. The Puritans: The Malevolence of Malvolio”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Minding Malvolio: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”

Shakespeare, Othello
The Imaginative Conservative – “Othello” in a Nutshell ~ The Imaginative Conservative 
The Imaginative Conservative – “Othello” and the Devil Inside

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The Imaginative Conservative – Eros and Economics in “The Merchant of Venice”
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare vs. The Puritans: Shylock and Usury
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”: A Comedy of Errors?
Catholic Education Resource Center – Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice 

Don Quixote
The Imaginative Conservative – “Don Quixote and Imaginative Places”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Chasing Lions: Don Quixote in Pursuit of the Beautiful”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Adventures of the Mind”
The Institute of Catholic Culture – DUSTING OFF DON QUIXOTE – The Unconquerable Catholicism of Cervantes
Thomas Aquinas College – Don Quixote and the Glory of the Life to Come: Why We Study Cervantes
Hardcore Literature – Which Translation of Don Quixote is the Best?
Hardcore Literature – How to Read Don Quixote by Cervantes (10 Tips)
Hardcore Literature – Let’s Appreciate the Artwork of Don Quixote Together
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Don Quixote in a Nutshell”
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Don Quixote and the Via Dolorosa”
EWTN’s Great Books Every Catholic Should Know“Holy Fools and Unholy Falls”
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – The World of Don Quixote
One Catholic Life Review

Poetry
An Anthology of Catholic Poets
The Catholic Anthology
The Authority with Joseph Pierce – Richard Crashaw, John Milton, John Dryden

Anthologies
Crowned Masterpieces
World’s Greatest Books

French Literature
Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary

Cyrano de Bergerac, Excerpt
Hardcore Literature – How to Read the Plays of Molière (French Theatre Appreciation)

American Literature
Annenberger Learner – American Passages: A Literary Survey, especially 2. Exploring Borderlands and 3. Utopian Promise
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World (Aphra Ben was Catholic and English, and this is about South Americ), excerpt