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• Measure for Measure (1)

• Cummings' Study Guides for the Great Works of World Literature

  http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/

  Cummings, Michael J.Cummings' Study Guides. Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Cummings' site includes guides for Shakespeare's plays as well as for a large number of other literary works.

  keywords: online, guides, cummings

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• Education at the Utah Shakespearean Festival

  http://www.bard.org/education.html

  Educational resources are available here from the Utah Shakespearean Festival. This site contains study guides, links to other Shakespearean Festivals, as well as other information:

  keywords: festival, education, study, teaching

  valid as of 2007-01-10

• English Renaissance in Context (ERIC)

  http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm

  English Renaissance in Context(ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. The site also provides interactive tutorials on some of Shakespeare's plays and the making and selling of books in the Early Modern Period:

  keywords: students, tutorials, interactive, text

  valid as of 2005-10-04

• NoSweatShakespeare

  http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/

  King, Warren.No Sweat Shakespeareoffers modern English translations of Shakespeare's plays, summaries, study guides and other resources as well as a Shakespeare for Kids series:

  keywords: summaries, translations, guides, modern

  valid as of 2006-09-28

• On Scholarship and Literary Interpretation: An Introductory Note

  http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/interpretation.htm

  Johnston, Ian. "On Scholarship and Literary Interpretation: An Introductory Note." Studies in Shakespeare Course, Malaspina Univeristy-College, Namaimo, 2001. Johnston justifies a generally New Critical approach to the reading of Shakespeare:

  keywords: course

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• Shake Sphere

  http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top

  Cummings, Michael.Shake Sphere: A Study Guide for the World of William Shakespeare. Williamsburg Pennsylvania, March 2006. Cummings provides plot summaries, sonnet analysis, historical background, criticism, essays, definitions, and explanations of common Shakespearean figures of speech. One of the most thorough Shakespeare study guides online:

  keywords: links, guides

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• Shakespeare Lectures

  http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lectures.htm

  Johnson, Ian. Lectures:Studies in ShakespeareMalaspina University-College, Nanaimo, Spring 2002. Course lectures on numerous Shakespeare plays includingHenry IV, Part 1,Henry V,As You Like It,Twelfth Night,Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth,The Tempest,Antony and Cleopatra,Richard II, andRichard IIIas well as Shakespeare background material:

  keywords: ant, anthony, cleopatra, ayl, as you like it, lectures, english, ham, hamlet, 1h4, h8, henry, lr, king, lear, mac, macbeth, r2, r3, richard, tempest, tmp, twelfth night, tn

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• Shakespeare Navigators

  http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/

  Here you can find the complete text A. C. Bradley's critical classic, "Shakespearean Tragedy." Additional information, such as scene indexes, notable quotes, and character reviews can be found for some of Shakespeare's plays. This site was created by Philip Weller, Ph.D.

  keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, lectures, london, mac, macbeth, oth, othello, tragedy

• Shakespeare Resource Center

  http://www.bardweb.net/

  Pressley, J.M., ed.Shakespeare Resource Center, 1997-2006. The site combines information and a large collection of links to other Internet sources to aid students and teachers in researching and teaching many aspects of Shakespeare, his life, and his works:

  keywords: biography, theatres, links

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• SparkNotes

  http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/

  Sparknotes.comoffers introductory summaries, character descriptions, and brief discussions of themes and motifs for each of Shakespeare's plays. Sections such as "Key Facts" are useful to review before reading. This is a commercial site, so some materials are not available unless you sign up:

  keywords: english, review, summaries

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• William Shakespeare at eNotes

  http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/

  William Shakespeare at eNotescontains thousands of pages of content on the life and work of Shakespeare and provides links to study guides, descriptions, web pages, and essays. This site has a neat dictionary feature that allows you get the definition of a word simply by highlighting the word and pressing SHIFT + D:

  keywords: education, essay, study, translation

  valid as of 2005-10-20

• William-Shakespeare.info

  http://www.william-shakespeare.info/

  This site has lots of accessible information about Shakespeare, his plays, and Elizabethan life. Unfortunately, this page has some distracting advertisements:

  keywords: biography, Elizabethan, Globe, images, plays, quiz

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• World Shakespeare Bibliography

  http://www.worldshakesbib.org/

  Harner, James. L. ed.World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. The Johns Hopkins UP and The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. This bibliography contains annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1968 and early 2006. An excellent resource for the serious student, however, the site requires a $60.00/year subscription:

  keywords: association, articles, bibliography, electronic, library

  valid as of 2005-10-20