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• A Serpent's Tooth

  http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lear.html

  Richard Nathan'sHow Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth It Is to Have a Thankless Childis his parody ofKing Learas written for W. C. Fields:

  keywords: adaptation, king, Lr, lear, script

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• ANIMATIONS: The Audition

  http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S99/animation/the_audition.html

  View a clip of a computer-animated frog haming it up for an audition forHamlet:

  keywords: animation, audition, clip, hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Hamlet: The Text Adventure

  http://www.versificator.co.uk/hamlet/index.html

  In this online text adventure game you can "avenge your father's death, defeat your evil uncle, and ascend the throne of Denmark in this long-awaited adaptation of Shakespeare's seminal work."

  keywords: games, hamlet, humor, interactive

  valid as of 2007-12-10

• Modern Adaptation Animation

  http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/muchado/

  Flying Fish Productions presents whatMuch Ado About Nothingmight look like if it happened in modern day high school:

  keywords: much ado about nothing, ado, adaptation, clip, animation, modern

  valid as of 2007-01-04

• Quotes Mistakenly Attributed to Shakespeare

  http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/misquotesfaq.html

  Shakespeare Onlineprovides a long list of quotations that have been frequently, mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare. Here's who really said it:

  keywords: authors, popular lines, quotes, sayings

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• Shakespeare High: Your Shakespeare Classroom on the Internet!

  http://www.shakespearehigh.com/

  A non-academic, multimedia site with a discussion zone, trivia, and resources for K-12 teachers and students:

  keywords: blog, trivia

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shakespeare Parodies : A Collection of Parodies of Shakespeare's Tragedies

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

  Richard Nathan's Shakespeare parodies includingScots on the Rocks(Macbethas written for Abbott and Costello) are good for a laugh:

  keywords: Mac, macbeth, parody, tragedy

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shakespeare Quiz

  http://www.barcelonareview.com/mis/shquiz.htm

  Test your Shakespeare knowledge with this short quiz offered byThe Barcelona Review:

  keywords: quiz, trivia

  valid as of 2005-10-25

• Shakespeare in Star Trek

  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5462/bardtrek.html

  Check out all the allusions to Shakespeare in theStar Trektelevision episodes, movies, and books:

  keywords: allusions, film, star trek, television

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shakespeare's Food Poesies

  http://www.soupsong.com/ibard.html

  An informal survey of Shakespeare's use of food in his writings which reveals much about Renaissance literary convention and the Elizabethan table:

  keywords: food, renaissance

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Shakespeare's Global Globe

  http://www.orbismundi.org/

  This site, designed to explore regional reading habits in an informal way, provides an instantaneous visualization of all self-reporting readers of Shakespeare on the planet, viewable by region, genre, and play:

  keywords: community, readers, world

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• Shakespearean Insults

  http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

  The Shakespearean Insulter presents the user with some interesting and entertaining sixteenth-century slams:

  keywords: insults, wordplay

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Stick Figure Hamlet

  http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com/

  Dan Carrol is the creator of this humourous Hamlet, done completely in the guise of comic stick figures. The site is updated with a new page three times a week:

  keywords: comic, ham, hamlet

  valid as of 2006-06-16

• Tales From Shakespeare

  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LAMBTALE.HTM

  Lamb, Charles and Mary.Tales From Shakespeare. Shakespeare's plays as bedtime stories for children:

  keywords: adaptation, children, edition

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Talk Like Shakespeare

  http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/

  Learn all the secrets behind talking like Shakespeare with the aid of this fun and exciting website:

  keywords: none

  valid as of 2009-05-01

• The Playhouse

  http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/shakespeare/playhouse.html

  Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's plays with these four fun, interactive games from Bantam Shakespeare:

  keywords: animation, games, interactive

  valid as of 2007-01-05

• Titles from Shakespeare

  http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake.html

  Check out this list Shakespeare-inspired titles for everything from webpages to recipe books compiled by Barbara Paul:

  keywords: collection, titles

  valid as of 2005-09-08