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Links Database: Hypertexts

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/midsummer1.html

  A lightly annotated hypertext edition ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamby Basia Siedlecki, a student in the University of Northern British Columbia interdisciplinary MA program. This site is useful for high school students or those not used to Shakespearean turns of phrases - definitions provided:

  keywords: british, dream, edition, midsummer, mnd, night's

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• A Midsummer Night's Web and MOO

  http://cmc.uib.no/dream/frames/main.html

  A Midsummer Night's Dreamin hypertext, with some annotations from the University of Bergen. The annotation is thorough and thoughtful. This display requires a large monitor to be easily legible.

  keywords: dream, midsummer, mnd, night's, annotation

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers

  http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html

  This site presents the collated text of Theobald's playDouble Falshood, a play that is possibly related to Shakespeare's missing play "Cardenio." This text is transcribed by John W. Kennedy:

  keywords: cardenio, double, theobald

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Hamlet Works

  http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/

  Hamletworks.org offers the First Folio and Second Quarto ofHamlet, as well as an enfolded version of the two. This excellent search tool allows a text search with variable amounts of surrounding lines for context:

  keywords: course, first, folio, ham, hamlet, quarto

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• King Learhome

  http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm

  "The Complete Text of Shakespeare'sKing Learwith Quarto and Folio Variations, Annotations, and Commentary" is provided by Dr. Larry A. Brown:

  keywords: folio, king, lear, lr, quarto

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Macbeth: An In depth Analysis

  http://library.thinkquest.org/2888/

  Hypertext version ofMacbethfrom Think Quest. This site is by and for high school students (as well as teachers). Included are summaries of acts and scenes, a glossary, as well as an introduction to some basic themes:

  keywords: analysis, mac, macbeth, scenes, summaries

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Richard IIISociety

  http://www.r3.org/bookcase/shaksper/

  Richard IIIand a whole lot more (including an article on Shakespeare's sources) resides at theRichard III Society: Online Library of Primary Texts and Secondary Sources:

  keywords: library, sources, r3, richard, primary, secondary

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Modern English Collection

  http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w

  This site at the University of Virginia allows you to search a number of early texts. Most of Shakespeare's plays can be found here in hypertext:

  keywords: collection, english

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Tragedy of King Lear

  http://quarles.unbc.ca/lisad_html/index.html

  A hypertext edition ofKing Learby UNBC student Lisa Drysdale. It includes a short introduction with a summary of what she sees as the play's main themes:

  keywords: edition, king, lear, lr

  valid as of 2005-09-12