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Internet Resources on Cervantes and Don Quijote

Biblioteca Virtual: Miguel de Cervantes
Free Website: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Cervantes/
"La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes inaugurada en julio de 1999, es un ambicioso proyecto de edición digital del patrimonio bibliográfico, documental y crítico de la cultura española e hispanoamericana." An initiative of La Universidad de Alicante, Banco Santander Central Hispano, with the collaboration of Fundación Marcelino Botín. Contains a biography, chronology, complete works, translations, sound recordings, interviews, filmography, dictionary, images, and more. In Spanish and English. Links to many other portals to Spanish and Latin American literary sites.

Bibliografía del Quijote
Free Website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/cbib/fernandez_biblio/index.html
Covering the years 1900-1997, this bibliography provides citations to research specifically on el Quijote. Compiled by Dr. Jaime Fernández of Sophia University, Japan, this bibliography is available from the Cervantes Project website.

Catholic Encyclopedia--Biography of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra
Free Website: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03543a.htm
A lengthy synopsis of the life of the author of el Quijote, signed by the scholar who prepared it for the Catholic Encyclopedia. This biographical sketch elaborates on many events in Cervantes's life and provides commentary on his work.

Centro de Estudios Cervantinos
Free Website: http://cervantes.uah.es
A handsomely designed site, this web resource, housed at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain, offers access in Spanish to texts of Cervantes's poetry, novels, and plays; a biography/chronology of his life; portraits of the author; and criticism and debate about his work.

Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO) 1994-1998
Free Website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/biblio.html
The database is searchable in English and in Spanish and provides citations to literary studies and other scholarship on Cervantes published between 1994 and 1998.Compiled by Dr. Eduardo Urbina of Texas A&M University, this bibliography is available from the Cervantes Project website.

The Cervantes Project
Free Website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes
One of the most significant Cervantes sites on the web. A digital archive of electronic texts by and images of Cervantes, this site is also home to the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO) and the Biografía del Quijote. The Cervantes Project also provides excellent links to other texts, images, and resources on Cervantes and Spanish literature.

Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina
Madrid, Spain: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos; Editorial Castalia
Location: JPL Reference Stacks PQ6337 .G685
(11 volumes when complete; currently: v. 1. A buen bocado-Aubigne v. 2. Auden-Casa de los Celos v. 3. Casa de Moneda-Cueva, Juan de la)

H-Cervantes
Free Website: http://h-net.msu.edu/~cervantes
H-Cervantes is part of H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line, a service sponsored by Michigan State University. This site features an archive of full-text discussions and messages from the H-Cervantes listserv, a scholarly e-mail discussion group. Also on offer at this site are links to other Cervantes websites and illustrations from editions of Cervantes's works.

Don Quijote : Part I
Free Website: http://www.bartleby.com/14/
The Thomas Shelton translation reprinted from the Harvard Classics.

Proyecto Cervantes
Free Website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/index.html
This bilingual site offers full-text versions of Cervantes's works, a biography of Cervantes, a bibliography and an online Don Quijote Spanish/English Dictionary as well as links to other Cervantes and Spanish literature sites. The best of these links is to Espéculo, a scholarly literary magazine from Madrid (http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo), which provides the Biblioteca Quijotesca (http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/bquijote/)--all-too-brief literary commentary on El Quijote from famous writers.

The Works of Miguel de Cervantes
Free Website: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante.htm
An English-language site at Indiana University that offers the Spanish-language text of Cervantes's works. The text files are available in both HTML and Zip formats.

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Adaptations and Images From Cervantes Work

Also see the above links for images of Cervantes and Don Quijote

Don Quixote de la Mancha Exhibit
Free Website: http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu/
A digital exhibition of translations of and illustrations from various editions of Don Quijote. This online tour features images from works found in the libraries of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Don Quixote of La Mancha
Free Website: http://www.quixote.tv/
A commercial site that features images from Don Quijote of La Mancha, an animated cartoon series. The images feature Don Quijote, Rocinante, Dulcinea, Sancho Panza, and La Mancha landscapes, among others.

Man of La Mancha
Free Website: http://musicals.net
Definitely not a scholarly site but of interest because it reprints some of the lyrics to the musical and features a song list. The complete book of the musical is not included.

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Internet Resources For The Study Of Spanish Literature

Antología de Poesía Española
Free Website: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/poetry.htm
Electronic texts of Spanish and Latin American poetry from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. The poetry included is searchable by author or first line. There are both English and Spanish search interfaces for this site, but the text of the poems is available only in Spanish.

COMEDIA: Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
Free Website: http://www.comedias.org/
This site features full-text Spanish and English editions of works, criticism, graphics, and bibliographies on Spanish Golden Age comedias. The site also offers access to the association's listserv, which features academic discussions on Spanish comedias.

Instituto Cervantes
Free Website: http://www.cervantes.es/
A public institution created by the Spanish government in 1991 to promote the teaching of the Spanish language and the diffusion of Spanish and Spanish-American culture. The institute has centers on four continents, including two in the United States. While both the headquarters and the Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York tend to favor promotion of local activities, the New York center does offer access to its library catalog. Although you cannot download the texts or images from these holdings, you can see what materials are available and request them through interlibrary loan.

Laberinto: An Electronic Journal of Early Modern Hispanic Literatures and Culture
Free Website: http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/laberinto/
A semi-annual electronic journal dedicated to the study of Spanish and Spanish-American texts from the early modern period, 1450-1750. Laberinto features full text, image, and even audio and video segments and web links to its topics. The journal encourages scholarly research and communication with a multimedia approach.

Sonetos del Siglo de Oro: Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
Free Website: http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/
This site, sponsored by a Spanish professor at Sweet Briar College, offers the full-text of Spanish sonnets. Texts are in both Spanish and English. There is an index of poets featured, but the sonnets are searchable by first line. Links are also provided to Spanish- and English-language websites for literary texts and some criticism.

Teatro de los Siglos de Oro
Free Website: http://www.spanisharts.com/books/literature/tesiglor.htm
Texts, analysis, theory, bibliographies, and images of Spanish Golden Age theater are available at this site.

Voice of the Shuttle
Free Website: http://vos.ucsb.edu
This site, sponsored by the University of California at Santa Barbara, offers a wealth of resources for the study of literature. Under "Literatures--Other than English," there are links to web sites on Spanish and Portuguese literature, including Latin American and Mexican literature. Some links to Cervantes sites are also featured. More electronic texts of primary sources are offered than literary criticism.