This site from the University of Toronto provides a search engine to several electronic early modern English dictionaries. Designed to make accessible the English-language content of bilingual (English and other languages) and monolingual (English-only) dictionaries, glossaries, grammars, and encyclopedias published in England from 1500 to 1660.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips. Part of the Middle English Compendium, which also provides access to a HyperBibliography and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

The collections focus on British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, with particular strength in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contains one of the largest collections of STC (1475-1640) and WING (1641-1700) books in the world, with about 55,000 volumes, including broadsides. The Shakespeare Collection contains 229 Quarto editions of the plays and poems, 79 copies of the First Folio, 118 copies of the Second, Third, and Fourth Folios, and about 7,000 other editions of Shakespeare's works, from the Rowe 1709 to the latest editions. (The Folio editions are available full text online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) and The First Folio of Shakespeare.)

A comprehensive gateway to resources on Shakespeare on the Web

This is a useful site with background information on the Globe, as well as the Elizabethan context.