Performance Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP)
CASP is the first research project of its kind anywhere in the world devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatrical practice. On this site you will find a wealth of learning, teaching, and research resources related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian theatre.
http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/
Actors- John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
This site, created by Michael A. Morrison, is dedicated to John Barrymore and includes audio clips and over thirty photographs of the actor:
http://www.Shakespearean.com/Biography.htm - Alan Bates Archive
The Alan Bates Archive contains RSC production photos of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. This site also contains reviews, interviews, and background information about the play:
http://alanbates.com/ - On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet
Robins, Elizabeth. "On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet." North American Review, 171 (December 1900): 908-19. An article written by famous Ibsen actress Elizabeth Robins on the faults of the character of Hamlet being played by a woman:
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/docshort/onseeham.htm
Individual plays- Wired for Books: William Shakespeare
Wired for Books presents William Shakespeare. Download RealPlayer video productions of some of Shakespeare's plays, as well as listen to Shakespeare's sonnets:
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/shakespeare/
Romeo and Juliet
- CRRS: Romeo & Juliet Prompt-Books
Jill Levenson's site "Romeo and Juliet Prompt-books" is a fully searchable database containing information from approximately 170 Romeo and Juliet prompt-books from productions from the seventeenth century to the 1980s:
http://www.crrs.ca/publications/electronic/romeo.htm
The Merchant of Venice
- Masterpiece Theatre | The Merchant of Venice
PBS screened a version of The Merchant of Venice. The website has everything from essays and interviews to a short extract of the Shylock defense scene:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
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Troilus and Cressida
A site devoted to the production of Troilus and Cressida, directed by Sir Peter Hall (2001). These reviews of the production also contains critical commentaries and stage history:
http://www.curtainup.com/troiluscressida.html
Movies- Romeo & Juliet
Baz Luhrmann's spectacularly modernized Romeo and Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) is celebrated in this site. Listen to the entire soundtrack online:
http://www.romeoandjuliet.com/ - Colin Firth in Shakespeare in Love
This Colin Firth fan site contains summary details and some stills from Shakespeare in Love:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/1280/sil.html - Fox Searchlight Pictures : A Midsummer Night's Dream
The official site for the 1999 film of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci):
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/amidsummernightsdream/ - Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) Movie Links
An unofficial site devoted to Branagh's Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams). Includes reviews, interviews and a discussion forum:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6261/hamlet.html - MGM Movie Database: Richard III
MGM's official site for Richard III (John Wood, Dominic West, Donald Sumpter, Maggie Smith, Kristen Scot Thomas, Ian McKellen, Tim McInnerny, Nigel Hawthorne, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Broadbent, Annette Benning):
http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=RICHARD3 - Richard III Society--Al Pacino's Looking for Richard
Al Pacino's Looking for Richard (Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Aidan Quinn) explores the background of a production of Richard III. Includes viewer's guide, lesson plan and suggested reading:
http://www.r3.org/pacino/ - Richard III Society -- McKellen Shakespeare Film
The Richard III society presents information on Sir Ian McKellen's Richard III portrayal. The site includes a synopsis, production notes, and an interview with the actor:
http://www.r3.org/onstage/FILM/homepage.html - Shakespeare Behind Bars
Director Hank Rogerson makes a revelatory trip into a maximum-security prison, where we embark on a year-long journey with the Shakespeare Behind Bars theatre troupe-comprised of Luther Luckett inmates and led by volunteer program director Curt Tofteland. The prisoners cast themselves in roles reflecting their personal history and fate. Their individual stories, including information about their heinous crimes, are interwoven with the plot of The Tempest. The inmates delve deeply into the characters they portray, confronting their personal demons:
http://www.shakespearebehindbars.com/ - Shakespeare on Film & Video: Books in the UC Berkeley Library
Investigate Shakespeare film bibliography from the Library of the University of California, Berkeley:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/ShakespeareBib.html - Short Clips from 2 Film Adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
A table-format comparison between Baz Lurhmann's 1998 and Franco Zeferelli's 1968 production Romeo and Juliet is available at:
http://www.stanford.edu/~kbmiller/rnjmovies.htm - Steven Marx's "Shakespeare in Love" page
Steven Marx has developed a small site devoted to the wonderful film Shakespeare in Love. The site contains essays, lecture notes, and study guides on the film:
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/Shak_inLove/SM_Sh_in_Love.html - The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
The Internet Movie Database provides information on most movies, including those film adaptations and performances of Shakespeare's plays:
http://www.imdb.com - TITUS the movie
Fox Searchlight's official site for Titus (Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cummings, Colm Feore). Requires Flash plug-in that can be downloaded through a link on this site:
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/titus/ - To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One of Hamlet
Hirsh, James. "To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One of Hamlet." This document is available in Adobe Acrobat format at EnterText1.2:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/hamlet/hirsh.pdf
Stage and performance history- Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660
David Kathman has developed "a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660":
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/ - Shakespeare's Staging
This site, maintained by Hugh Richmond at the University of California Berkeley, provides a survey of current information and opinion about staging by registering the best available explorations of the original nature of Shakespearean performance during his lifetime, and of its development through four centuries thereafter. It includes an extensive image gallery:
http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/ - Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century
The University of Virginia's "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century" provides extensive historical materials on early prompt-books as well as its collection of prompt-books edited by G. Blakemore Evans:
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/index.html  Theatre Resources from Artslynx
Artslynx International Theatre Resources, includes a list of "this month in theatre history" and contains links to everything from acting and performance resources to puppetry. This site also includes a section devoted to Shakespeare links:
http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/index.htm- The Shakespeare Revue
The Shakespeare Revue is a well-designed site with many interesting features including reviews of recent Shakespeare performances, spotlights on Shakespearean actors, photographs, interviews, videos and more:
http://www.shakespeare-revue.com/index.htm - Bibliography: Shakespeare in Performance- University Libraries of Notre Dame
A bibliography of Shakespeare in performance compiled by Joseph H. Huebner, a Communications and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame. Unfortunately, this site has not been updated since February 1999:
http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/theatre/biblio.htm - Centre for Electronic Text & Image
Images for Performances of King Lear is the creation of CETI, Center for Electronic Text and Image, of the University of Pennsylvania Library. It is no longer supported but the images of beautiful drawing nineteenth and eighteenth century depictions of King Lear can still be viewed at:
http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/learimages/index.html? - Early Modern Plays in London
This table created by Tom Dale Keever organizes the most accurate available data on the performance of Early Modern English drama in London from 1576, when the first public playhouse was constructed, until 1642, when the playhouses were closed by Parliament. Data can be sorted by Title, Date, Playwright, Company, and Theater. This HTML page can be downloaded and converted to a word-processable tabled document or to a database like MS Excel so that individuals can work with the data however they please:
http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html - McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
Ken McKoy has written A brief Guide to internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies:
http://www.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html - REED - Patrons and Performances
Professional performers of all kinds in England and Wales toured to provincial towns, monasteries and private residences before 1642. The Records of Early English Drama: Patrons and Performances project (REED) is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces - their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom. Interactive maps are also available:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/ - REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2
Records of Early English Drama has extensive links to Medieval, Shakespeare and paleographical sites of interest on their WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2 page:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html - Shakespeare Online
Amanda Mabillard's frequently updated Shakespeare site offers a wide range of resources including information about Elizabethan theater history, a Shakespeare biography, and essays relating to the plays and sonnets. Shakespeare Online also provides links to Mabillard's About Shakespeare articles:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html - Templeman Library Theatre Collections
This site contains Victorian and Edwardian performance records for Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean plays. Records are categorized by theater and often include cast and crew members, but unfortunately, most of the artifacts are not available online:
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/Development%20Area/theatre.htm - Theatre Central
Theatre Central is a well maintained and comprehensive meta-site on theatre; the site also contains a news section:
http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites/category/2049 - Theatre Database
Information and articles on Ancient, Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century theater is included on this site. Unfortunately, there are distracting advertisements:
http://www.theatredatabase.com/ - Theatre Museum of Waseda University
Waseda University's Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum is dedicated to the memory of Tsubouchi Shoyo, the first person to translate Shakespeare's plays into Japanese. An English version of this site exists alongside the Japanese one:
http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/index-e.html - The Elizabethan Theatre
This site contains a lecture by Professor Hilda D. Speare on the topic of Elizabethan Theatre:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/ - The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
The Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the largest collections of theater and performance related materials in the UK. Their website offers a picture gallery of over 300 Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean images, as well as other various artifacts located in their collection:
http://www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk/ - University of Bristol Theatre Collection
The Collection is dedicated to the study of British theater and holds a vast collection of performance artifacts from theaters, actors, designers and much more. The site includes archive records of the Old Vic theater that includes many Shakespearean artifacts. Many artifacts are available online:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/
The Globe- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London
The official site of the modern Globe Theatre in London:
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ - Jahn: PPP/Drama
Visit Manfred Jahn's online drama theory tutorial for background information on The Globe and Shakespeare:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppd.htm#D4 - Shakespeare's Globe Center (USA) Center for Globe Research
The Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA) at the University of Maryland. The site has archived documents dedicated to Americans' commitment to the building of the Globe Theatre in London. It also includes instructions on how to build a scale model of the Globe:
http://www.sgc.umd.edu/
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