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- "An Improbable Fiction": Shakespeare'sTwelfth Nightin Sources and Performance
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/12thnightsources.html
- Locket, Joseph. "'An Improbable Fiction': Shakespeare'sTwelfth Nightin Sources and Performance."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Project, and Positions. Ed. Joseph Locket. Locket examines what Shakespeare's interpretations of some ofTwelfth Night's sources suggest about how the play should be performed:
- keywords: performance, sources, TN, twelfth night
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Twelfth Night
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Fairies and Gods": A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/FAIRES%20ANDGODS.txt
- Wylie, Jessica. "Faires and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Wylie explores the Celtic-pagan and Roman influences of and the interplay of these influences inKing Lear:
- keywords: celtic, king, Lr, lear, pagan, roman, religion
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Give me the glass, and therin will I read": Narcissism and Metadrama inRichard II
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#%E2%80%9CGive
- Graybill, Mark S. "'Give Me the Glass, and Therein Will I Read': Narcissism and Metadrama inRichard II."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)19 (1996). Graybill looks at Richard's narcissism in terms of Lacan as well as the actor-audience relationship:
- keywords: actor, audience, lacan, metadrama, narcissim, R2, richard
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Richard II
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Is This the Promised End?": The Tragedy ofKing Lear
- http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lear.html
- Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy ofKing Lear." (Originally published in theJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism33.1 (1974): 19-32. Oates examines the scene in which Lear awakes to find Cordelia beside him (4.7) and how it functions in terms of the end of the play:
- keywords: art, criticism, end, king, Lr, lear, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Leaden Contemplation": Ambiguous Evidence of Revision in Q1Love's Labour's Lost
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/LLL-Q1%20REVISION.txt
- Steele, Kenneth B. "'Leaden Contemplation': Ambiguous Evidence of Revision in Q1Love's Labour's Lost." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. An attempt to find evidence of Shakespeare's workings and reworkings, their implications, and other questions generated by Q1:
- keywords: LLL, love's labor's lost, revision, steele, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Love's Labour's Lost
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer ofTitus Andronicus": A Reply
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/kolin71.htm
- Kolin, Philip C. "'Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer ofTitus Andronicus': A Reply."Connotations7.1 (1997-98): 94-96. Kolin calls for a deeper and more positive reading of Lucius than Anthony Taylor's - with an emphasis on Lucius' individuality:
- keywords: anthony, character, individuality, lucius, Tit, titus andronicus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "Otello" The Story That Started It All
- http://www.classical.net:80/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/otstory.html
- A modern translation of Cinthio'sMoor of Venice, Shakespeare's source forOthello:
- keywords: history, oth, othello, source, moor
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- "Otello" The Story That Started It All
- http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/index.html
- The Verdi Opera net has the source for Cinthio'sMoor of Venice, known asOtello. Access this resource at:
- keywords: oth, othello, otello, moor
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- "Swift hart" and "soft heart": Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA Midsummer Night's Dream
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html
- Bowen, Julia A. "'Swift hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the Iconography of Lyly'sGallatheaand Shakespeare'sA Midsummer Night's Dream."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (SRASP)20 (1997). Bowen examines how Lyly and Shakespeare took advantage of Elizabeth's established iconography to make the queen a presence in their dramas and to what effect:
- keywords: dream, early modern, elizabeth, iconography, MND, midsummer, night's, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- "Teaching Shakespeare With a Computer" and "Seek Me Out By Computation"
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/COMPUTER%20TEACHING.txt
- Lamonico, Michael. "Teaching Shakespeare with a Computer" and "Seek Me Out By Computation" SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Essays describe Lamonico's use of computers and technology to teach Shakespeare to high school students:
- keywords: teaching, computers, essay
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- "That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites": The Turks in Shakespeare'sOthello
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/othello.html
- Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare'sOthello."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Briefly exploresOthelloin the context of relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period:
- keywords: context, early modern, history, Oth, othello, ottoman, turks
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "The Thing Itself": Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability inKing Lear
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html#A2
- Shurgot, Michael W. "'The Thing Itself': Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability inKing Lear."Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia (SRASP)22 (1999). Shurgot examines the thematic significance of the nude scenes in the Royal National Theatre's 1997 production ofKing Lear:
- keywords: king, Lr, lear, nudity, performance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt
- Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates inA Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:
- keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- "Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts": Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PETRARCH%20PYRAMUS.txt
- Steele, Kenneth B. "'Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts': Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Steele looks atA Midsummer Night's Dream's play-within-a-play to examine the influence of the Petrarchan idiom andRomeo and Juliet:
- keywords: MND, midsummer night's dream, metadrama, rhetoric, Rom, romeo and juliet, petrarch, pyramus, thisby
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- "Wishing a More Strict Restraint": Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#Wishing
- Friedman, Michael D. "'Wishing a More Strict Restraint': Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella"West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)19 (1996). Friedman's essay deals with silence as submission and speech as resistance in Shakespeare's female characters with a focus on feminist performances of Isabella inMeasure for Measure:
- keywords: feminism, isabella, MM, measure for measure, female, silence
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Measure for Measure
- valid as of 2005-09-08
12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/sohmjuli.html
- Sohmer, Steve. "12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe."Early Modern Literary Studies3.1 (May 1997): 1.1-46. Sohmer confronts two questions in his article: what was the date of the debut of Shakespeare's original playhouse and which play was chosen for the Globe's debut:
- keywords: globe, date, opening
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- 1Henry IV: Quarto
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=henryIV&PagePosition=1
- The historie of Henry the Fourth : vvith the battell at Shrewsbury, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe.London : Printed by J. Norton, 1639. (KingHenry IV):
- keywords: history, henry, 1h4, king, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- A Celebration of Women Writers: 1501 - 1600
- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/1501-1600.html
- A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, maintains a collection of e-texts of Renaissance women writers:
- keywords: writers, female, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- A Defence of Rhyme
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ryme.html
- Risa Bear'sRenascence Editionssite contains a copy of Samuel Daniel's reply to Thomas Campion,A Defence of Rhyme:
- keywords: campion, daniel, defence, richard, renascence, samuel, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Daniel, Samuel
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- A Genealogical Tree of the Continental Dynasties
- http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/continen.pdf
- A genelogical tree of the Continental Dynasties (1066-1216) can be found on theOfficial Website of the British Monarchy. The diagram starts with Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark and ends with Henry III (1216-72):
- keywords: tree, family, royal, genealogical, medieval, dynasty, monarchy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-10-25
- A Genealogical Tree of the Plantagenet Dynasties
- http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/plantage.pdf
- A genealogical tree of the Plantagenet Dynasties (1216-1485) can be found on theOfficial Website of the British Monarchy. The diagram starts with Henry III (1216-72) and ends with Edward V (d. 1483). This document is available as a PDF:
- keywords: plantagenet, monarchy, medieval, dynasty, genealogical, tree, family, royalty
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-10-25
- A Genealogical Tree of the Tudor Dynasties
- http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/stuarts.pdf
- A genealogical tree of the Tudor Dynasties (1485-1603) can be found on theOfficial Website of the British Monarchy. The diagram starts with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Son of Edward III and ends with Henry, Cardinal of York (d. 1802). This document is available as a PDF:
- keywords: tudor, dynasty, genealogical, tree, family, royalty
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Tudor
- valid as of 2005-10-25
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- A Poetic Diversion
- http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
- The glossary of poetic terms accessible atBob's Bywayis impressive in its functionality. Privately created by Robert G. Shubinski,Bob's Bywayalso houses a pages containing examples of certain types of poetry. Access this site at:
- keywords: rhetoric, poetry, rhythm, scansion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Rhetoric
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" inThe Merchant of Venice
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html
- Luxon, Thomas H. "A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" inThe Merchant of Venice."Early Modern Literary Studies4.3 (January 1999): 3.1-37. Luxon explores the debate as to whether Shakespeare'sThe Merchant of Veniceis in fact an anti-semitic play:
- keywords: anti-semitic, debate, jew, MV, merchant of venice, religion, semitic
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-08-02
A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet- http://web.archive.org/web/20041013134453/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/index.html
- Ian Delaney'sA Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamletoffers a wealth of information for the intrepid student. The site offers commentary on each act, poses questions, and provides very informative supplementary materials and excerpts from influential criticism:
- keywords: criticism, exerpts, delaney, hamlet, questions, study guide
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-10-25
- A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html
- Castaldo, Annalisa. "A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)20 (1997). Castaldo explores the effects of the integration of Shakespeare's work into popular culture:
- keywords: popular, culture, renaissance, papers, essays
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- A Yorkshire Tragedy, by Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare, and George Wilkins
- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/yorksh.html
- Thomas Middleton'sA Yorkshire Tragedyis available at this site maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia:
- keywords: Yrk, george, middleton, tragedy, william, yorkshire
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas (attrib.)
- valid as of 2005-09-13
A Yorkshire Tragedy: Table of Contents- http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/plays/Yrk.html
- A Yorkshire Tragedy, attributed to Thomas Middleton is available at theInternet Shakespeare Editions. This text is available in three different formats: divided by scenes, divided by pages or viewed as a single file. Access this text at:
- keywords: Yrk, middleton, tragedy, yorkshire
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas (attrib.)
- valid as of 2005-09-13
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- ATHENA - Pierre Perroud
- http://hypo.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch/athena/html/athome.html
- Athenais a fine and stimulating collection of art and e-texts in several languages. Click on the "Ophelia" page for a collection of artistic depictions of Shakespeare's character:
- keywords: art, collection
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays...- http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
- Absolute Shakespeareis a well-designed site that provides texts of the plays and poems, early essays on them, and some study guides aimed at the high school student:
- keywords: essays, quotes, summaries
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Actes and Monuments
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=foxe_actes_book1&PagePosition=1
- Actes and Monuments(1516-87) is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: john, foxe, actes
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Fox, John
- valid as of 2005-09-29
- Aemilia Lanyer, 17th-C English Woman Poet
- http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/lanyer/lanyer.htm
- This site, dedicated to the English poet Aemilia Lanyer, includes a biography, works fromSalve Deus Rex Judaeorumand a Lanyer Listserv:
- keywords: aemilia, lanyer, english
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Lanyer, Aemilia
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Alabama Shakespeare Festival- http://www.asf.net
- Montgomery, Alabama. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival website currently contains some brief biographies on its cast and crew, links to reviews from various newspapers and sources, and a downloadable video on the festival's history:
- keywords: biography, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- Alan Bates Archive
- http://alanbates.com/
- The Alan Bates Archive contains RSC production photos of Shakespeare'sAntony and Cleopatra. This site also contains reviews, interviews, and background information about the play:
- keywords: actor, bates, antony, antony and cleopatra
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Actors
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Alarums and Defeats:Henry VIon Tour
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/hampalar.htm
- Hampton-Reeves, Stuart. "Alarums and Defeats:Henry VIon Tour."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (1999). Hampton-Reeves provides a reading, based on a production ofHenry VIby the English Shakespeare Company, examining regional and national identity as well as a sense of lost community:
- keywords: community, company, english, 1H6, henry, identity
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry VI
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Alciato's Book of Emblems- http://www.mun.ca/alciato/
- For Renaissance iconograpy, you can consult Andrea Alciato'sEmblematum liber(Book of Emblems); this excellent site includes Geoffrey Whitney'sChoice of Emblemes(1586) and provides text in Latin with English translation, and gives useful links to related sites. Visit this site at:
- keywords: emblem, latin, whitney
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Graphics/sound/video
- valid as of 2005-09-15
American Repertory Theatre- http://www.amrep.org/
- Cambridge, Massachusetts. The American Repertory Theatre has detailed cast lists, synopses, and links to articles and books of their more recent past productions. You can find this information under the drop-down menu marked "Where to?":
- keywords: articles, bookstore, synopsis, poster
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
- American Shakespeare Center
- http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com
- Staunton, Virginia. The beautifully constructed site of Shenandoah Shakespeare offers virtual tours of the Elizabethan-style Blackfriars Playhouse and thorough descriptions of the education programs offered by the company.
- keywords: education, images, virtual tour
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- An Invitation to the Pleasure of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/URKOWITZ%20RJ-MWW.txt
- Urkowitz, Steven. "'Do me the kindnes to looke vpon this' and 'Heere, read, read': An Invitation to the Pleasures of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Urkowitz identifies radically different conceptions of several scenes between the quarto and folio versions ofRomeo and JulietandThe Merry Wives of Windsorof which editors of the modern texts rarely make readers aware:
- keywords: folio, merry wives of windsor, quarto, Rom, romeo and juliet, Wiv
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families
- http://www.roman-emperors.org/
- Can't remember who came first, Didius Julianus or Pertinax?De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperorswill be able to tell you:
- keywords: roman, encyclopedia, emperors, empire
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Anglica Historia
- http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/polverg/
- A hyper-text version ofAnglica Historia, created by Dana F. Sutton, is available atThe Philological Musuemof the University of California, Irvine. Shakespeare employed Polydore Vergil as a source forRichard II. View the twenty-seven volumes in both Latin and English at:
- keywords: anglica, historia, polydore, vergil, history, english, hvii, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Polydore, Vergil
- valid as of 2005-09-29
- Another Island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare'sThe Tempest
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v5no1/bilton.htm
- Bilton, Peter. "Another island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare'sThe Tempest."Renaissance Forum5.1 (2000). Bilton suggests thatThe Enamoured Dianaby Gil Polo was Shakespeare's inspiration forThe Tempest:
- keywords: diana, polo, inspiration, source, Tmp, tempest
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-08

Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture- http://appositions.blogspot.com/
- An electronic, peer-reviewed annual journal for studies in Renaissance and Early Modern culture.
- keywords: journal, renaissance, early modern
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2008-06-09
- Approximations: Iago as a Plautineleno
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html#Approximations:%20Iago%20as%20a%20Plautine
- Gilchrist, K.J. "Approximations: Iago as a Plautineleno."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)20 (1997). Gilchrist examines the characer of Iago in terms of Plautus' classicallenoor pimp figure:
- keywords: Plautus, leno, iago, motives, Oth, othello, pimp
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Aristotle's Poetics Search
- http://wither.unbc.ca/aristotle/
- Search UNBC's index of thePoeticsat:
- keywords: poetics, aristotle, greek
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Art History Resources: Part 8 15th-Century Renaissance Art
- http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html
- This site, designed by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, discusses Northern European and Spanish art:
- keywords: art, history, europe, italy, spain
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Art of English Poesie
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/poesie.html
- Thomas Campion'sObservations on the Art of English Poesiehas been transcribed and added to theRenascence Editionscollection by Risa Bear:
- keywords: art, campion, collection, english, poesie, renascence, richard, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Campion, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Art of English Poesie
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/poesie.html
- Campion, Thomas.Observations in the Art of English Poesie, an important literary work by a major musician, is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: thomas, campion, art, musician, poesie, music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Artonline
- http://www.artonline.it/eng/default.asp
- Artonlineprovides links to art collections throughout Europe:
- keywords: art, europe
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-08-12
- Astrophel and Stella
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/stella.html
- Astrophel and Stellaby Sir Philip Sidney is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: philip, sidney, astrophel, stella, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)
- http://www.anzsa.org/
- TheAustralian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association's website provides their bi-annual meetings reports and publishes a number of materials relating to Shakespeare:
- keywords: association, australia, new zealand
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
Authorship Analysis- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/outline.html
- An Authorship Analysis: Francis Bacon as Shake-speareis an excellent source concerning what Francis Bacon did write:
- keywords: analysis, authorship, francis bacon
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Bacon, Francis
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Baltimore Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.baltimoreshakespeare.org/
- Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival hosts educational tours, workshops, and displays cast lists and some pictures from their old productions in their "Archives":
- keywords: archive, festival, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
Bard on the Beach- http://www.bardonthebeach.org/
- Vancouver, British Columbia. The Bard on the Beach website contains news reviews, video clips, podcasts, interviews, and educational resources for plays in the current season:
- keywords: company, theater, canada, bc, vancouver
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- Bardseyeview
- http://bardseyeviewblog.blogspot.com/
- This fantastic blog by Jeremy Abrams offers an interesting perspective on Shakespeare and his plays:
- keywords: blog
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01

Bardweb- http://www.bardweb.net/
- Bardweb, edited by J.M. Pressley, is a Shakespeare resource center that combines information and links:
- keywords: information, links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - William Shakespeare
- http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.html
- Bartleby providesBartlett's Familiar Quotationsfor Shakespeare's plays at:
- keywords: quotations, bartlett
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Searching for quotations
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Base Trade: Theater as Prostitution
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v060/60.4lenz.html
- Lenz, Joseph. "Base Trade: Theater As Prostitution."Early Literary History60.4 (1993): 833-855. Lenz explores the use of prostitution as a metaphor for the theatrical experience during Shakespeare's time:
- keywords: theater, prostitution
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson
- Ben Jonson quotes, biographical information, essays, and more are available atLuminarium:
- keywords: biographical, essays, jonson, quotes
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Jonson, Ben
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Ben Jonson, Masque of Blackness and Masque of Oberon
- http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~cdesmet/jonmasq/slide1.htm
- This site, maintained by Christy Desmet, offers slide show presenting masque costumery from the 16th century:
- keywords: jonson, masque
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Costume
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Bible: King James Version
- http://www.hti.umich.edu/relig/kjv/
- TheHumanities Text Initiativeof the University of Michigan includes this searchable edition of the King James Bible:
- keywords: bible, edition, religion, james, king
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15

BibleGateway.com- http://biblegateway.com
- Biblical passages in multiple languages and editions are available atBible Gateway:
- keywords: bible, languages, religion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Bibliography: Shakespeare in Performance- University Libraries of Notre Dame
- http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/theatre/biblio.htm
- 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:
- keywords: book, bibliography, libraries, performance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660- http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/
- David Kathman has developed "a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660":
- keywords: biographical, drama, renaissance, index, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Boccaccio- http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml
- Brown University'sDecameron Webhas Boccaccio's text in both English and Italian, as well as many other informative and easy to find features:
- keywords: boccaccio, english
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Boccaccio
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Bodleian Library
- http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/
- The mainpage of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford can be visited at:
- keywords: library, oxford
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Libraries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Books at Random House of Canada | Shakespeare's Face by Stephanie Nolan
- http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0676974848&view=excerpt
- Stephanie Nolen ofThe Globe and Mailreported on a possible new portrait of William Shakespeare aged 39. The resulting book,Shakespeare's Face, includes contributions from eminent Shakespeare scholars. This site contains information about the publisher:
- keywords: canada, globe, portrait, book, nolen
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Books of the Bible (King James Version)
- http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/Bible/
- A searchable King James Bible is available from Kyoto Notre Dame University:
- keywords: bible, james, king
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Booth'sHamlet(Promptbook of J.B. Pitman)
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_booth&PagePosition=1
- Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet. New York : Printed for William Winter, by Francis Hart & Co., 1879. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, promptbook, tragedy, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
- http://lachesis.english.uga.edu/cocoon/borrowers/
- Borrowers and Lendersis a peer-reviewed, online, multimedia Shakespeare journal that appears biannually and provides .pdf versions of the texts of the articles:
- keywords: appropriation, articles, borrowers, journal, lenders, online
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2006-11-29
- Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brief.html
- Silver, George.Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence. (c. 1599). The information on this site is maintained by Greg Lindall:
- keywords: defence, george, silver
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14
British Shakespeare Association- http://www.britishshakespeare.ws/
- TheBritish Shakespeare Associationreports on developments in Shakespearean theatre, research, and education:
- keywords: association, british
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- British Shakespeare Company
- http://www.britishshakespearecompany.co.uk
- The British Shakespeare Company is Britain's largest open air Shakespeare company, and has achieved critical acclaim throughout the country. Their site, created by Chris Hopkins of Design Forte, includes production photographs and reviews, as well as links to other Shakespeare sites:
- keywords: production, company, photographs, international, UK
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2007-03-07
- Bull, Beare, and Horse, Cut, Curtaille and Longtaile
- http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/gates/shak/bearjtay.htm
- The first four pages of John Taylor's 1638 publicationBull, Beare, and Horse, Cut, Curtaille and Longtailehave been transcribed and formatted by Dr. Joanne E. Gates of Jacksonville State University. The transcription contains some verse describing the bears and bulls, as well as the list of the names of the animals at the Bear Garden and Paris Garden. Visit this text at:
- keywords: john taylor, water poet, bull, bear, bear baiting, horse
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Taylor, John
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- CBEL Shakespeare Directory
- http://www.cbel.com/shakespeare/
- Includes over 900 manually selected Shakespeare sites, organized by topic and play. Links are frequently added and updated:
- keywords: links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2007-03-07
- CERES
- http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/
- The well-maintainedCambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES)offers a selective list of materials from which to choose:
- keywords: study, links, archive
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-15
CRRS | Library Resources- http://www.crrs.ca/library/library.htm
- The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studiesat the University of Toronto maintains a comprehensive page of links to library and web resources:
- keywords: reformation, links
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
CRRS: Romeo & Juliet Prompt-Books- http://www.crrs.ca/publications/electronic/romeo.htm
- Jill Levenson's site "Romeo and JulietPrompt-books" is a fully searchable database containing information from approximately 170Romeo and Julietprompt-books from productions from the seventeenth century to the 1980s:
- keywords: prompt, rom, romeo and juliet, reformation, renaissance, seventeenth
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > Romeo and Juliet
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Caesar's Reviving Blood
- http://www.leithart.com/archives/000791.php
- Leithart, Peter J. "Caesar's Reviving Blood."Leithart.com, 2004. Leithart delves into the historical background, structure, social and political issues, and conceptions of ceremony and sacrifice that exist within the play the play:
- keywords: background, caesar, ceremony, history, JC, sacrifice, structure, politics, religion
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- California Shakespeare Theater
- http://www.calshakes.org/
- Orinda, California. Visit the well-designed website of the Calfornia Shakespeare Theater at:
- keywords: performance, review, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Calvin, John (1509-1564)
- http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/
- Major works by John Calvin can be located atChristian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: calvin, christian
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Calvin, John
- valid as of 2005-09-15
Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare- http://shakespeare.ca/
- TheCanadian Adaptations of Shakespearesite, based out of the University of Geulph, includes information on the Sanders portrait (a possible portrait of Shakespeare found in Ontario, Canada), links to other Shakespeare-related sites, and a substantial amount of information on Canadian Shakespeare productions and adaptations:
- keywords: adaptation, canada, performance, portrait, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP)- http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/
- 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.
- keywords: actor, canada, education, interview, performance, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance
- valid as of 2005-11-09
- Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
- http://www.canadiantheatre.com/
- The Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia from Athabasca University provides information about Canadian companies and actors, including those who specialize in Shakespeare:
- keywords: encyclopedia, theater, companies, actors, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Centre for Electronic Text & Image
- http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/learimages/index.html?
- Images for Performances of King Learis 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:
- keywords: actors, eighteenth, nineteenth, portraits, images, king lear, lr
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-10-18
- Certain Speculations onHamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther.
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/sohmshak.html
- Sohmer, Steve. "Certain Speculations onHamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther."Early Modern Literary Studies2.1 (1996): 1.1-2. Sohmer briefly examines the connections other critics have made betweenHamletand the Reformation as well as the role played by the dates mentioned within the text, the dates Shakespeare's acting company carefully chose for the initial performances of plays, and the dating of the text:
- keywords: calendar, date, dating, Ham, hamlet, luther
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Charles Knight's Shakespeare
- http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/
- Charles Knight's Shakespearefeatures high-quality renderings of the 38 engravings from theImperial Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works(1873). Includes accompanying English and Dutch texts and there are a number of sound recordings for the English texts, along with an overview of Charles Knight's working life:
- keywords: edition, english, life, sound
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Cibber'sRichard III
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=richIII_cibber&PagePosition=1
- The tragical history ofKing Richard III as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Printed for B. Lintott at the Middle temple-gate, in Eleet-street [!], and A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon on London-bridge, 1700. (King Lear):
- keywords: cibber, history, king, london, richard, r3, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.cincyshakes.com
- Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival website gives a detailed description of their upcoming productions, offers biographies of production and administrative staff, and information on educational programs available through the company:
- keywords: biography, education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- Classical Myth
- http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/index.html
- Classical Myth: The Ancient Sourcesis available from the University of Victoria's Greek and Roman Studies department. Includes both text and images from major figures in Greek and Roman mythology. This page features mostly Classical sources, but some Renaissance sources as well:
- keywords: myth, greek, roman
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Clemson Shakespeare Festival
- http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/shakespr/
- Clemson, South Carolina. Take a virtual tour of the Globe and learn about past and present productions and colloquiums at the Clemson Shakespeare Festival website:
- keywords: colloquium, festival, virtural tour
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-18
- Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio
- http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/carnegie/84webster.htm
- Webster, John. "Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio." Carnegie Chronicle: Supplementary Material 8.4 (1999). Webster lays out the means by which he encourages students to read, respond, and contruct their own readings of Shakespeare's texts:
- keywords: chronicle, course, john
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Colin Firth in Shakespeare in Love
- http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/1280/sil.html
- This Colin Firth fan site contains summary details and some stills fromShakespeare in Love:
- keywords: firth, colin firth, shakespeare in love, film, movie
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Columbia Guide to Online Style
- http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13210-7/the-columbia-guide-to-online-style
- Columbia University'sColumbia Guide to Online Styleshows you how to reference electronic materials in MLA as well as other formats. Includes a guide for citing emails, the World Wide Web, discussion lists, and newsgroups:
- keywords: style, cite, citation, guide
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Coming Out in Shakespeare'sThe Two Gentlemen Of Verona
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v060/60.4simmons.html
- Simmons, J. L. "Coming Out In Shakespeare'sThe Two Gentlemen of Verona."English Literary History60.4 (1993): 857-77. Simmons approachesThe Two Gentlemen of Veronain terms of thwarted homosexual desire and uncertainty. This article is only available with a subscription to Project Muse:
- keywords: desire, gentlemen, queer, TGV, homosexuality, verona
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- valid as of 2005-10-19
- Connotations
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/
- Connotations: A Journal of Critical Debateis located at:
- keywords: connotations, journal
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Connotations: A Journal of Critical Debate- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/
- Connotations: A Journal of Critical Debateis an refereed journal which focuses on the semantic and stylistic energy of the language of English literature (from the Middle English period until today) in a historical perspective. The website maintains a page listing all Shakespeare-related articles, including links to those that are available online:
- keywords: articles, connotations, journal
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Contarini's Commonwealth of Venice
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=contarini&PagePosition=1
- Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542.The commonwealth and gouernment of Venice. London : Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Edmund Mattes, 1599. View images of this original text at theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: edmund, london, commonwealth, contareno
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare- http://www.bartleby.com/70/
- Bartleby has placed the 1350-pageOxford Shakespeareon their site. The searchable material, includes 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and miscellaneous documents. Note that this is the 1914 Oxford version, now superseded. Edited by W.J. Craig:
- keywords: oxford, sonnets
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Crooke's Mikrokosmographia
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=crooke&PagePosition=3
- Crooke, Helkiah, 1576-1635.Mikrokosmographia: a description of the body of man: together with the controversies thereto belonging.London: Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in the Barbican, and are there to be sold, 1615. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: crooke, body, science
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Crosswalk.com: The Geneva Bible Sutdy of 1599- http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/GenevaStudyBible/
- The Geneva Bible Study of 1599. The Geneva Bible was the edition used most commonly in English households in Shakespeare's life, with 144 editions between 1560 and 1644. The King James Bible did not appear until Shakespeare had effectively stopped writing, in 1611:
- keywords: bible, edition, religion, james, christianity, geneva
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Curtain Rising
- http://www.curtainrising.com/
- Curtain Rising, part of playsonthenet.com, is a searchable theater directory for theaters in America and around the world.
- keywords: companies, international, performance, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > General
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- D'Avenant'sHamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_1676&PagePosition=1
- The Furness Collectionhouses the textThe Tragedy ofHamlet Prince of Denmark : As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London : Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, 1676. (Hamlet):
- keywords: denmark, ham, hamlet, london, theater, tragedy, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
DEEP: Early Database of Early English Playbooks- http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/
- Created by Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser, DEEP is a scholarly research resource that provides an extensive database of Early English Playbooks. Visitors to the site can search in detail to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama:
- keywords: authors, database, marketing, playbooks, printing, publishing
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2008-01-15
- Daniel's Civil Wars
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=daniel_civil&PagePosition=1
- The Ciuile wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke....London: Printed by Simon Watersonne, 1609. This facsimile is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Daniel, Samuel
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Daniel's Collection of the history of England
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=daniel_collection&PagePosition=1
- Daniel's Collection of the history of England. Printed at London : [by Nicholas Okes], 1621. Cum priuilegio. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: collection, england, history, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Daniel, Samuel
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Dante, Alighieri (1265-1321)
- http://www.ccel.org/d/dante/
- Dante'sInferno,Purgatorio, andParadisoas translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are available atChristian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: dante, alighieri, library
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Dante
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- DatingThe Tempest
- http://shakespeareauthorship.com/tempest.html
- Kathman, David. "DatingThe Tempest."The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Eds. David Kathman and Terry Ross. Kathman usesThe Tempest, dated after the death of the Earl of Oxford, to challenge the claim that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays:
- keywords: date, authorship, earl, oxford, source, Tmp, tempest
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=harsnett&PagePosition=1
- Samuel Harsnett'sA Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures(1603) was used by Shakespeare as his source for the names of demons inKing Lear. Locate this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: king, lear, Lr, demons
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Defence of Poesie (Ponsonby, 1595)
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html
- Sir Philip Sidney'sDefence of Poesieis available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: philip, sidney, defence, poesie, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Department of Theatre & Film Studies -The Tempest
- http://drama.uga.edu/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=28&page=2
- A fascinating experiment with computer technology producing an animated Ariel in real time as part of a production ofThe Tempestat the University of Georgia:
- keywords: film, tempest, tmp, theater, ariel
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Derek Jacobi'sRichard II: Ambiguities Answered
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/richard-ii.html
- Locket, Joseph. "Derek Jacobi'sRichard II: Ambiguities Answered."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Locket analyzes how the character of King Richard becomes evident in Derek Jacobi's film production ofRichard IIthrough costume, acting, and script choices:
- keywords: character, costume, film, performance, R2, richard, script
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Richard II
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
- http://www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/deutsch/home.html
- TheGerman Shakespeare Societyis dedicated to encouraging appreciation of Shakespeare in the German-speaking world. Their site (also available in English) contains information on programs, conferences, and colloquia:
- keywords: german, germany
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- DiGrassi, His True Arte of Defence
- http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/digrassi/
- DiGrassi, Giacomo.True Arte of Defence. (1594). "Showing how a man without other Teacher or Master may safelie handle all sortes of Weapons." This site is maintained by Thomas C. Hudson of the University of North Carolina:
- keywords: defence, index, digrassi
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Diana
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/diana.html
- Henry Constable's sonnet sequenceDiana(1594) is available, courtesy of Judy Boss, atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: constable, diana, henry, sonnet
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Constable, Henry
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Digital Librarian: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
- http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html
- Digital Librarianis a librarian's choice of the best of the Web. This site provides links to Medieval and Renaissance resources:
- keywords: links, medieval, resources
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Don King's Shakespeare
- http://www.montreat.edu/dking/Shakespeare/English301.htm
- Study materials from Don King's Shakespeare course at Montreat College. Special emphasis on the major tragedies and comedies:
- keywords: college, english, king
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Donne's Poems
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=donne&PagePosition=1
- Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the authors death. London : Printed by M.F. For Iohn Marriot ..., 1633. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: death, donne, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Donne, John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Donne, John (1572-1631)
- http://www.ccel.org/donne/deaths-duel/deaths-duel.html
- A number of John Donne's works and sermon's, such asDeath's DuelandSermon Preached to the Lords upon Easter-day, at the Communion, are available at this site which is maintained by theChristian Classics Ethereal Libraryat Calvin College:
- keywords: death, donne, john, life, poetry, religion, sermon, church
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Donne, John
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference:The Comedy of ErrorsandThe Winter's Tale
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/GIBBON61.HTM
- Gibbons, Brian. "Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference:The Comedy of ErrorsandThe Winter's Tale."Connotations6.1 (1996-97): 19-40. Gibbons investigates the patterns of doubling inThe Comedy of ErrorsandThe Winter's Taleand their interplay with the dialogue of the texts:
- keywords: double, comedy of errors, connotations, Err, likeness, WT, winter's tale
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Comedy of Errors
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference:The Comedy of ErrorsandThe Winter's Tale
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/LAIRD412.HTM
- Gibbons, Brian. "Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference:The Comedy of ErrorsandThe Winter's Tale."Connotations6.1 (1996-97): 25-43. Gibbons examines the structural doubleness and pairing inThe Winter's TaleandThe Comedy of Errors:
- keywords: double, pair, WT, winter's tale, wordplay
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Winter's Tale
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Duchess of Malfi- http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Malfi/malfi_home.htm
- Dr. Larry A. Brown's etext version of John Webster'sThe Duchess of Malfi, with notes and commentary, is available at:
- keywords: etext, john, webster, duchess, malfi
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Webster, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar- http://eserver.org/emc/
- Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminarprovides works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics. The desire is to open a conversation, and make explicit how much scholarly work depends upon careful reading, as well as critical (in the best sense of that word) exchange:
- keywords: culture, early modern, electronic
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Early Modern Literary Studies- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files.html
- The premier electronic journal for Early Modern studies includes many good articles on Shakespeare-related topics. This website also provides the archived files of theSHAKSPERlistserve--a good source for Shakespeare essays and news:
- keywords: archive, essays
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Early Modern Literary Studies- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
- Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS)is a refereed journal that includes a growing number of critical discussions on issues relating to Shakespeare:
- keywords: early, journal, modern
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07

Early Modern Literary Studies- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html
- Early Modern Literary Studiespossesses links to a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century resource materials which can be found on the Internet, as well as others which have a more general appeal and those which catalogue resources of interest to literary scholars:
- keywords: early, modern, seventeenth, sixteenth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Early Modern Plays in London
- http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html
- 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:
- keywords: performance, theater, company, playwrights, london, globe, chamberlain's men, king's men
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2007-07-03
Early Modern Women Database- http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3
- Early Modern Women Database, maintained by Georgianna Ziegler of the Folger Shakespeare Library, is a comprehensive and informative gateway to women's writing, art, and society:
- keywords: art, bibliography, database, early, modern, library, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Edgar and Kingship in the ThreeKing Lears
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html#_Edgar_and_Kingship
- Stoll, Abraham. "Edgar and Kingship in the ThreeKing Lears."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)22 (1999). Stoll explores the different ideas of kingship in the Tate, Quarto, and Folio versions ofKing Learand constructs his own reading kingship based on all these sources:
- keywords: folio, king, kingship, Lr, lear, quarto, tate
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Educating Shakespeare - school life in Elizabethan England- http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm
- Educating Shakespeareexplores the influence of Shakespeare's education on his writing and works, as well as provides a guide to standardized Elizabethan education:
- keywords: education, england, life
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2007-01-10
- Electric Renaissance
- http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/montaigne/montaigne.html
- Dr. E. L. Skip Knox provides electronic texts of the essays of Michel de Montaigne. This course ended in the spring of 1996:
- keywords: electronic, essays, montaigne
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Montaigne
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- English 330: Course Materials/Urban Life
- http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-30/materials/urban_life/
- There are maps of London fromEnglish 330: Introduction to Renaissance Studies, a class taught by Professor Rebecca Bushnell of the University of Pennsylvania, at:
- keywords: course, london, maps
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Maps
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies
- http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-330/
- Rebecca Bushnell's course at U. Penn,English 330: New Approaches to Renaissance Studies, has posted some wonderful visual resources, as well as many maps and portraits:
- keywords: course, english, maps, renaissance, portrait
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- English Literary History
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/
- English Literary History (ELH)is a refereed journal that focuses on the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature.Project Museprovides free access to some of this journal's articles, however, most require a subscription:
- keywords: articles, english, history, journal
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- English Literary History
- http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/elh/
- Project Museat Johns Hopkins University offers a huge range of journals online to subscribing institutions. Others can sample the wares from this address:
- keywords: journal, hopkins, muse
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
English Monarchs- http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/
- The site is a comprehensive history of the monarchs of England from Saxon times to the present day:
- keywords: king, monarch, queen, plantagenet, royalty, tudor
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2008-03-07
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-10-04
Enjoying "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare- http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm
- Ed Friedlander's site dedicated toMacbeth"grew out of a question about exactly what is 'grease that's sweaten from the murderer's gibbet'." It comes with a warning: "Macbethis nasty. This site is nasty":
- keywords: mac, macbeth, murder
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Macbeth
- valid as of 2005-09-12
EnjoyingHamletby William Shakespeare- http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm
- This site onHamletprovides summaries and commentary. Directed towards high school and college students, the site is approachable and provides some good information and further links. Its one drawback is that all the material is loaded in one page, which makes for slow loading and rather unweildy navigation:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, summaries
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-09
EnjoyingKing Learby William Shakespeare- http://www.pathguy.com/kinglear.htm
- Ed Friedlander has created this non-scholarly site intended as a resource for students and general readers ofKing Lear. This site is wonderfully laid out for the beginner enthusiast:
- keywords: king, lear, lr
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Erasmus's Praise of Folly
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=erasmus&PagePosition=1
- The praise of Folie. Moriae Encomium, a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. (Moriae encomium. English). [Imprinted at London]: in Fletestrete in the House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, [1549] Anno. M.D.LXIX. View this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: english, erasmus, library, london, praise, folly
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Erasmus
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Essay on Dramatic Poetry
- http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/LangContact/html/online_texts.html
- Dryden, John.Essay on Dramatic Poetry. (1672). This link also includes other useful selections from Renaissance texts on language dating between 1531 and 1672:
- keywords: john, dryden, online, poetry, language
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Etext Center
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/
- Consolatio Philosophiae(The Consolation of Philosophy) as translated by W. V. Cooper and edited with commentary by James J. O'Donnell of the University of Virginia is available at:
- keywords: consolation, philosophy, boethius
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Boethius
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Etext Center
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
- Several Middle English mysteries and morality plays are available at the University of Virginia Library'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: mysteries, morality, middle
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Everyman
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=AnoEver&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&part=0
- Everymanis available at the University of Virginia'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: everyman
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Exonerating Lucius inTitus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/hunt71.htm
- Hunt, Maurice. "Exonerating Lucius in Titus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor." Connotations 7.1 (1997-98): 87-93. Hunt defends the character of Lucius as a redeemer figure and argues that Taylor has distorted and neglected some of Lucius' key traits in order to undermine his virtue:
- keywords: virtue, christian, lucius, pagan, redeemer, religion, taylor, Tit, titus andronicus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus
- valid as of 2005-10-19
- Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581)
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/caroso/
- Fabrito Caroso's DanceIl Ballarino(1581), a dance manual, is available at:
- keywords: dance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender- http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Indexlists scholarship on women, sexuality, and gender:
- keywords: gender, sexuality, medieval, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Women
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- First Folio
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=firstfolio&PagePosition=1
- The Furness Libraryat the University of Pennsylvania has the complete First Folio online. Here you can view all the plays in the form they were pubished just a few years after Shakespeare's death: "Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623.":
- keywords: death, first, folio, library, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12

Folger Shakespeare Library- http://www.folger.edu/
- The Folger Shakespeare Librarycontains some of the finest historical and textual materials on Shakespeare. Look especially at their past exhibitions:
- keywords: historical, library
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Folger Shakespeare Library- http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm
- TheFolger Shakespeare Librarymaintains some excellent pages on the exhibitions they have mounted. There are some superb resources available here on the social history of the Renaissance:
- keywords: history, library, renaissance, social
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-08-02

Folger Shakespeare Library- http://www.folger.edu/
- The Folger Shakespeare Librarycontains some of the finest historical and textual materials on Shakespeare. Look especially at their past exhibitions:
- keywords: historical, library
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Libraries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Forbes-Robertson'sHamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_robertson&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Forbes Robertson. London: Nassau Press, 1897. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, london, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Forrest'sHamletPromptbook
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_forrest&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet. New York: Printed for the publishers by Torrey Brothers, 1860. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, promptbook, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Fox Searchlight Pictures :A Midsummer Night's Dream
- http://www.foxsearchlight.com/amidsummernightsdream/
- The official site for the 1999 film ofA Midsummer Night's Dream(Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci):
- keywords: film, mnd, midsummer night's dream, pictures, hoffman
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Foxe, John (1516-1587)
- http://www.ccel.org/foxe/martyrs/
- Fox, John.Fox's Book of Martyrs. Ed. William Byron Forbush is available at theChristian Classics Ethereal Library. This text is searchable, but missing the gruesome illustrations:
- keywords: john, foxe, martyr, priest
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Fox, John
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- French Renaissance Literature
- http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/early.modern.html
- Early Modern French Literatureis a gateway to French Renaissance texts:
- keywords: early modern, french, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Garrick'sRomeo and Juliet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=rj_garrick&PagePosition=1
- Romeo and Juliet/ by Shakespear ; with alterations, and an additional scene: by D. Garrick ; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.London: Printed for J&R Tonson & S. Draper, 1753. (Romeo and Juliet):
- keywords: london, rom, romeo and juliet, shakespear, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Geneva Bible- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=geneva_bible_selections&PagePosition=1
- Bible. [Selections -- Front matter; Genesis]. In The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages; with most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. . .. London: Christopher Barker, 1583. This text is available from theFurness Collection:
- keywords: bible, religion, languages, translations
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Georgia Shakespeare
- http://www.gashakespeare.org/
- Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Shakespeare's website offers directors and dramaturg notes for all its current productions, along with reviews of the performances. The company also presents a large number of education programs:
- keywords: directors notes, dramaturg notes, education, reviews
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
- Gerard's Herball
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=gerard_selections&PagePosition=1
- Gerard, John, 1545-1612. [Selections -- Front matter; from Second Book].In The herball or Generall historie of plantes. London : Printed by Adam Islip[,] Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: gerard, herbs, plants, medicine, science
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Given Names in England Before 1800
- http://www.galbithink.org/names/engb1800.htm
- Douglas Gabi's personal website offers a great section on given names in England before 1880. The information stems from a number of legal documents such as parish and guild registars. This site is interesting, since it makes note of religious trends and common names during Shakespeare's era:
- keywords: census, history, names, culture, religion, england, church
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-10-07
Gode Cookery- http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm
- Boke of Gode Cookery(James L. Matterer) is "a compilation of medieval recipes from authentic sources adapted for the 21st century kitchen, along with diverse facts on food and Renaissance and other historical culinary items." View this page at:
- keywords: food, recipes, matterer, culinary
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Food and drink
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Gosson's Playes Confuted
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=gosson&PagePosition=1
- Playes confuted in fiue actions : prouing that they are not to be suffred in a Christian common weale, by the waye both the Cauils of Thomas Lodge, and the Play of playes, written in their defence, and other obiections of players frendes, are truely setd. London: Imprinted for Thomas Gosson dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Sunne, [1582]. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: defence, gosson, library, london, thomas, players
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Gosson, Stephen
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Grand Marais Playhouse
- http://www.grandmaraisplayhouse.com
- Grand Marais, Minnesota. The site for the Grand Marais Playhouse has a special section devoted to Shakespeare and performances in the Minnesota Shakespeare Festival that includes photos:
- keywords: festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Granville'sJew of Venice(1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare'sMerchant
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/GRANVILL%20JEW_OF_V.txt
- Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville'sJew of Venice(1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare'sMerchant." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Schneider examines the differences between Shakespeare'sThe Merchant of Veniceand Granville's early 18th-century adaptation of it,The Jew of Venice, and disputes the argument that Granville's text is Shakespeare's minus the capitalism:
- keywords: adaptation, capitalism, granville, jew, MV, merchant, source
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Greek Mythology
- http://www.mythweb.com/
- Mythwebis based out of San Francisco, California and is a private site created by Joel Skidmore. It is very student-friendly, offers entertaining, animated tales and legends, a through index of terms, customs, heroes, and gods. This site also offers some teaching tips as well as educational products for teachers:
- keywords: mythology, greek
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- Greene's Groats-worth of Wit
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/greene1.html
- Greene's Groathe's-worth of Wit(1592) is notable for containing an early reference to Shakespeare. This text is now available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: greene, groats-worth, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Greene, Robert
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Guthrie Theater- http://www.guthrietheater.org/
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. For brilliant, thorough study guides, complete information on all aspects of the company, and a stunning display of visual organization and graphics:
- keywords: company, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Hal Imitates The Sun
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-5.txt
- Schneider, Ben Ross. "Hal Imitates The Sun." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A positive spin on the character of KingHenry Vboth in light of and in spite of war, prisoners, religious politics, and his pursuit of Catherine:
- keywords: character, H5, henry V, king, politics
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry V
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Hall's Chronicle
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=halle&PagePosition=1
- Hall, Edward, d. 1547.The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, beyng long in continuall discension for the croune of this noble realme : with al the actes done in both the tymes of the princes, both of the one linage & of the other....(Hall's Chronicle). London : Rychard Grafton, Prynter to the Kynges Maiestye, 1550. This text is available through theFurness Collection:
- keywords: hall, chronicle, edward, source, 1H6, 2H6
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Henry VIParts 1-2
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Hamlet Haven- http://www.hamlethaven.com
- This website, created by Harmonie Blankenship, hopes to assist in the navigation of Hamlet scholarship by grouping scholarly publications that use similar approaches and that treat similar subjects. You can narrow your search by selecting characters, subjects, or approaches:
- keywords: Ham, Hamlet, Ophelia, criticism, scholarship, bibliography, annotation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2007-11-30
Hamlet Online- http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/
- Hamlet Onlineis a fantastically comprehensive site created by John Hubbard, an Electronic Source Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Navigate through this page to find a number of sites offering course materials, full texts, translations, and Hamlet pages ranging from the seriously studious to the humorous and playful:
- keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, links, papers, summaries, translation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-10-18
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Hamlet Works- http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/
- Hamletworks.orgoffers a sophisticated search of the play's text which allows quick comparison of the quarto and folio versions:
- keywords: annotation, folio, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Hamlet(Kenneth Branagh) Movie Links
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6261/hamlet.html
- An unofficial site devoted to Branagh'sHamlet(Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams). Includes reviews, interviews and a discussion forum:
- keywords: forum, ham, hamlet, kenneth, branagh, movie, film
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2007-12-10
- Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country by Steve Roth
- http://princehamlet.com
- Roth, Steve.Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country. An examination ofHamletthat begins with the question "How old wasHamlet? Thirty, or a teenager?" This site is meant to support and expand the book, with the first chapter included online:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, roth, book
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-09
HamletFolio- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/F1/Scene/
- The 1623 Folio edition ofHamletavailable at theInternet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: edition, folio, ham, hamlet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
HamletQuarto 1- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/Q1/Scene/
- The First Quarto forHamletavailable from theInternet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
HamletQuarto 2: Table of Contents- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/Q2/Scene/
- The 1604 Second Quarto is available at theInternet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Hampton Roads Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.summershakes.com/
- Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Hampton Roads Shakespeare Festival offers performances free to the public and educational programs for youth:
- keywords: education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
- Hearing Green: Logomarginality inHamlet- Introduction
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/logomarg/intro.htm
- Smith, Bruce R. "Hearing Green: Logomarginality inHamlet"Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 1.1-2. Beginning with an audioclip of segments from the first two scenes ofHamlet, Smith considers Prince Hamlet's coming-to-presence in the play's original performances through three frames: the physical, the dramaturgical, and the physiological:
- keywords: audio, Ham, hamlet, frame
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
- Kansas City, Missouri. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival website has cast lists from some of its past productions and descriptions of youth and adult programs presented by the company:
- keywords: cast, education
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
- Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies
- http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/arkins.htm
- Arkins, Brian. "Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies."Classics Ireland2 (1995): 1-16. Arkins explores the influence of the Elizabethan author Heavy Seneca on Shakespeare's tragedies:
- keywords: classics, elizabethan, influences, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Henry V: Quarto 3
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=henryV&PagePosition=1
- The chronicle history of Henry the fifth: with his battell fought at Agin Court in France : together with ancient pistoll : as it hath bene sundry times played by ... the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants .London: Printed for T.P., 1608 [i.e. 1619]. (Henry the Fifth):
- keywords: chronicle, court, fifth, henry, history, h5, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England
- http://www.planetherbs.com/articles/johnhall.html
- Dr. Michael Tierra provides a brief biography of Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law. and excerpts from Hall's case studies in "Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England":
- keywords: england, john, medicine, john hall, herbs
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Holinshed's Description of Britain -- Selections
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_britain&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? An Historicall description of the Iland of Britaine [Selections]. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text can be viewed a theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: britain, england, george, holinshed, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed's Description of Ireland
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_ireland&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? A Treatise conteining a plaine and perfect description of Ireland [Selections]. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1586. This text can be located at theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: england, george, holinshed, library, london, ireland
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed's Description of Scotland -- Selections
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_scotland&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. The Historie of Scotland, conteining the beginning, increase, proceedings, acts and gouernement of the Scotish nation [Selections]. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1585]. This text is made available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: england, george, historie, holinshed, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sHenry IV
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_henryIV&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: england, george, holinshed, library, london, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sHenry V
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_henryV&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? Henrie the fift, prince of Wales, sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: H5, england, george, holinshed, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sHenry VI
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_henryVI&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. Henrie the sixt, sonne and heire to Henrie the fift. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London:Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop,Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: england, george, holinshed, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sHenry VIII
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_henryVIII&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: H8, england, george, henry, holinshed, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sRichard II
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_richII&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. Richard the second, the second sonne to Edward prince of Wales. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: R2, edward, england, george, holinshed, library, london, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holinshed'sRichard III
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_richIII&PagePosition=1
- Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. Richard the third, third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke, and vncle to Edward the fift. InThe Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: R3, edward, england, george, holinshed, library, london, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Histories
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Holy War inHenry Fifth
- http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/henry.html
- Marx, Steven. "Holy War inHenry Fifth."Shakespeare Survey, 48 (1995). Marx explores the connection betweenHenry Vand conceptions of holy war in the Bible:
- keywords: bible, fifth, H5, henry, king, religion, war
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry V
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Houston Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.class.uh.edu/theatre/performances_houstonshakespearefestival.html
- Houston, Texas. Produced by the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance, the Houston Shakespeare Festival has a long performance history. General information about the festival is provided on the Houston Shakespeare Festival website:
- keywords: festival, houston, texas
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
- Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.hvshakespeare.org
- Cold Spring, New York. Find beautiful pictures and information about their educational programs on the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's website:
- keywords: festival, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- I Love Shakespeare
- http://www.iloveshakespeare.com/
- This blog offers rants, raves, and news about everything Shakespeare. The home page includes Shakespeare's sonnets and is easy to navigate:
- keywords: blog, sonnets
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-04-30
IMS: William Shakespeare, HarperAudio- http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/020994_harp_ITH.html
- Hear excerpts fromMuch Ado About NothingandJulius Caesaras well as the sonnets read by Sir John Gielgud at HarperCollins Audio (Shakespeare):
- keywords: ado, caesar, jc, julius, much ado about nothing, sonnets, audio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times- http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/index.html
- The Internet Shakespeare Editionshas an extensive site on Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance context of the stage, society, politics, the history of ideas, and the literature of the time:
- keywords: history, life, politics, renaissance, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Idaho Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.idahoshakespeare.org/
- Boise, Idaho. Find a schedule of productions and descriptions of educational programs on the Idaho Shakespeare Festival website:
- keywords: education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-12
- In Praise of Folly
- http://www.ccel.org/e/erasmus/folly/folly.html
- Erasmus'In Praise of Folly, as translated by John Wilson, is available through the Christian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: john, wilson, desiderius, erasmus, praise, folly
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Erasmus
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Index to Vincentio Saviolo his Practise
- http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/
- Saviolo, Vincentio.Vincentio Salvolio his Practise. (1598). This site focuses on the art of swordfighting and includes illustrations:
- keywords: sword, combat, fighting
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14

Interactive Shakespeare Project: Measure For Measure- http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/mainmenu.html
- The Interactive Shakespeare Projectstudy guide forMeasure for Measureis located at:
- keywords: mm, guide, measure, interactive
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials > Measure for Measure
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Internet Archive
- http://www.archive.org/index.php
- This site serves as an excellent gateway through which to search other databases of archived materials. The four databases include moving images, live music, audio, and text:
- keywords: archive, text, audio, renaissance, old
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2007-09-14

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook1.html
- TheInternet Modern History Sourcebook, created by Paul Halsall, hosts a page on "The Early Modern West" which provides links and primary sources on many subjects, including extensive materials on the Reformation and early science. Visit this page at:
- keywords: early, modern, science, reformation, sourcebook
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Internet Shakespeare: Draft Early Texts- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/DraftTxt/index.html
- The Annex of theInternet Shakespeare Editionsat the University of Victoria contains digital old-spelling versions of the quarto or folio (or both) of all versions of the plays as originally published:
- keywords: digital, folio, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Introducing Early Modern English Documents
- http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/mambo/CERRA/MEMED/
- The Centre d'Etudes et Recherche sur la Renaissance Anglaise in Montpellier presents theMontpellier Early Modern English Documents. This is a "collection of electronic texts prepared for the online community of Renaissance scholars":
- keywords: early, modern, english, e-texts
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Introduction to Shakespeare's use of Mythology inA Midsummer Night's Dream- http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/mythintro.html
- A guide to mythology inA Midsummer Night's Dreamfrom J. B. Siedlecki's hypertext version of the play can be located at:
- keywords: midsummer night's dream, mnd, siedlecki, mythology
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream
- valid as of 2005-09-13
Intute: Arts and Humanities- http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
- Intute, hosted by a network of UK universities and partners, is a comprehensive portal for all sites on the Internet that deal with arts and humanities subjects. It may take some digging to find what you want, because the coverage is so complete, but all sites are fully reviewed and annotated:
- keywords: links, resources
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- Irving'sHamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_irving&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet: a tragedy in five acts, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Henry Irving. London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1879. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, london, stage, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Jahn: PPP/Drama
- http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppd.htm#D4
- Visit Manfred Jahn's online drama theory tutorial for background information on The Globe and Shakespeare:
- keywords: drama, globe, tutorial
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > The Globe
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- James'sRichard IIIPromptbook
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=richIII_james&PagePosition=1
- TheFurness Collectionhouses a copy ofShakspeare's historical tragedy of Richard III/ adapted to representation by Colley Cibber ; as played by Kemble, Cooke, and Kean and re-produced at the Park Theatre, New York, Jan. 7th, 1846.New York: S. French, 1846. (King Richard III):
- keywords: cibber, french, historical, james, king, promptbook, r3, richard, theatre, tragedy, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor- http://www.Shakespearean.com/Biography.htm
- This site, created by Michael A. Morrison, is dedicated to John Barrymore and includes audio clips and over thirty photographs of the actor:
- keywords: actor, audio, index, photographs, barrymore
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Actors
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- John Marston's The Scourge of Villainy
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/217.html
- John Marston'sThe Scourge of Villainyis available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: john, marston, poetry, scourge, villany
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marston, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/postprint/jhill-milt/jm-pref.htm
- John Spencer Hill's bookJohn Milton: Poet, Priest, and Prophetis available as a "postprint." Originally published by Macmillan in 1979, this text is made available byEMLS:
- keywords: john, milton, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Milton, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Johnson's and Steevens'sHamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_johnson&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. FromThe plays of William Shakespeare... : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators.London: Printed for C. Bathurst, 1773. (Hamlet):
- keywords: denmark, ham, hamlet, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Jonson's Volpone F1
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jonson_volpone&PagePosition=1
- Volpone, or The Foxe. A comoedie. Acted in the yeere 1605. By the K. Maiesties Servants. (Volpone). In Workes of Benjamin Jonson. Imprinted at London : by Will Stansby, 1616. This text is available at theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: jonson, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Jonson, Ben
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/
- TheJournal for Seventeenth-Century Music, published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, is available at:
- keywords: journal, music, seventeenth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Judith Shakespeare Company
- http://www.judithshakespeare.org/
- New York, New York. Judith Shakespeare Company is a "not-for-profit theatre ensemble dedicated to discovering what lies at the heart of a great play through the exploration of its language." It also looks at women's roles in classical theatre:
- keywords: company, women
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Julius Caesar- http://virgil.org/caesar/
- A collection of primary sources and background information forJulius Caesar. This site includes primary sources, images, essays, and more:
- keywords: caesar, collection, essays, jc, julius, virgil
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Julius Caesar- http://virgil.org/caesar
- An excellent collection of primary sources and background information forJulius Caesarcan be found atVirgil.org:
- keywords: JC, caesar, collection, julius, virgil
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Julius Caesar, the Play and the Man- http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312647/index.htm
- Julius Caesarfrom ThinkQuest. This colourful site is includes directors', actors' and historians' insights and audience reactions along with a teacher's guide and links to other resources:
- keywords: caesar, education, jc, julius
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-10-04
- Justification Discourse
- http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hooker/just.toc.html
- Richard Hooker'sDiscourse of Justificationcam be located at theChristian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: hooker, discourse
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Hooker, Richard
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.kyshakes.org/
- Louisville, Kentucky.The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival offers amazing educational outreach programs, such as Shakespeare Behind Bars, Shakespeare Alive!, From Page to Stage, and The Kid's Globe. Their website also displays images from previous performances:
- keywords: education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-11
King Lear(Folio)- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Lr/F1/Scene/
- The Internet Shakespeare Editions'old-spelling edition of the Folio (1623), available either as formatted in the original, by pages; in acts and scenes; or as a single long file:
- keywords: edition, folio, king, lear, lr, scenes, 1623
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-12
King Lear(Quarto text)- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Lr/Q1/Scene/
- The Internet Shakespeare Editions'old-spelling edition of theKing LearQuarto (1608), available either as formatted in the original, by pages; in acts and scenes or as a single long file:
- keywords: edition, king, lear, lr, quarto, scenes, 1608
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- King Lear: Quarto 2
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=lear_q2&PagePosition=1
- M. VVilliam [Shake]-speare: his true chronicle history of the life and death ofKing Lear and his three daughters, with the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester,and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1608 [i.e. 1619]. (King Lear):
- keywords: chronicle, death, history, king, lear, life, london, lr
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- King LearBeyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family
- http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9310/schwehn.html
- Schwehn, Mark R. "King LearBeyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family."First Things36 (October 1993): 25-33. A thematic approach toKing Learfocussing on the love relationship between parent and child:
- keywords: Lr, king, lear, family, love
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- King Learand the Culture of Justice
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-3.txt
- Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Learand the Culture of Justice." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1997. Schneider re-evaluates reading the character of King Lear as a victim:
- keywords: culture, king, Lr, lear, victim
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- King Learin Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/schnlear.html
- Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Learin Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes."Early Modern Literary Studies1.1 (1995): 3.1-49. Schneider disagrees with the modern idea that Shakespeare's is a timeless genius of human nature and readsKing Learin the specific context of the time in which it was written and in terms of Elizabethan conceptions of death:
- keywords: death, Lr, lear, king
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English- http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/
- LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, c.1480-1702. Unfortunately, you or your institution must have a subscription:
- keywords: database, dictionaries, english, encyclopedia, lexicon
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Dictionaries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.laketahoeshakespeare.com/
- Incline Village, Nevada. The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival website lists upcoming performances, special events, and information about the festival and its staff:
- keywords: education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
- Lansdowne's Jew of Venice
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_venice&PagePosition=1
- The Furness Collection houses the workThe Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants.London: Printed for Ber. Lintott, 1701. (Merchant of Venice):
- keywords: comedy, london, jew, merchant, mv, theater, venice
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Lear's Lapse: ForeshadowingKing Lear I. i.
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/lear.html
- Locket, Joseph. "Lear's Lapse: Foreshadowings inKing LearI.i."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, Positions, 1996. Locket discusses the early signs inKing Learthat point towards the eventual dissolution of Lear's kingdom into social chaos:
- keywords: Lr, lear, king, social
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-10-20

Lectures on Early Modern European History- http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/earlymod.html
- The History Guideoffers excellent materials dealing with ancient and Medieval history on its pageLectures on Early Modern European History:
- keywords: early, modern, guide, history, lectures, medieval
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Legends - Shakespeare's Stories -Macbeth
- http://bestoflegends.org/shakespeare/macbeth.html
- FindMacbethsources on theLegendswebsite. This site provides information on the historical figures behind the play:
- keywords: history, mac, macbeth, scotland, legends
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Macbeth
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
- http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/
- Christus Rex's site onLes Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berryprovides facsimiles of the entire medieval manuscript as well as a page-by-page commentary. This site provides many wonderful and colourful images of medieval life:
- keywords: facsimiles, life, medieval
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Lesson Planet
- http://www.LessonPlanet.com
- Lesson Planet is a search engine for teachers that provides teacher-reviewed online resources including more than 150,000 online lesson plans. Appropriate for K-12 teachers:
- keywords: lesson, primary, secondary, teaching
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2009-05-07
- Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507-1814
- http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch1.html
- Maintained by the Library of the University of Virginia,Novus Orbus: Images of the New Worldis a collection of maps of the New World from the 16th and 17th centuries:
- keywords: lewis, clark, collection, world, maps
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Maps
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Liber Liber: Biblioteca | Autori S | Shakespeare, William
- http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm
- Italian translations of Shakespeare are available here:
- keywords: italian, translations
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Translations
- valid as of 2005-09-12

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge- http://compendium.elizabethan.org/
- Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledgeis a collection of information about daily life from 1558 to 1603 for "writers, actors, and re-enactors." Includes well-researched anecdotes, often with attractive and authentic graphics:
- keywords: elizabethan, collection, england, graphics, life
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
- Jack Lynch'sLiterary Resources on the Nethouses numerous links to scholarly pages and materials on Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and many other literary periods:
- keywords: links
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Lives of Edward V and Richard III
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=more_lives&PagePosition=3
- The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable endis available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: R3, edward, duke, york, yorke
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-29
- London Theatre Shows
- http://www.thisistheatre.com/
- This site contains information about past and current London, England Shakespeare and non-Shakespeare stage productions. It also includes links to UK theaters and companies:
- keywords: archive, companies, london, performance, theater, uk
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- London at the Time ofRichard III: Richard's arrival in 1483 - Some sights of the City
- http://www.craigsweb.com/london.htm
- Harris, Marion.London at the Time ofRichard III: Richard's arrival in 1483 - Some sights of the City.(1994). This electronic text can be accessed at:
- keywords: R3, london, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Looking with Ears, Hearing with Eyes: Shakepeare and the Ear of the Early Modern
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/robsears.htm
- Robson, Mark. "Looking with ears, hearing with eyes: Shakespeare and the ear of the Early Modern."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 10.1-23. Robson looks at the ear in terms of Early Modern debates on the body, orality and aurality, and reading and writing:
- keywords: early, modern, body, ear, orality, aurality, reading, writing
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/TAYLOR71.HTM
- Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin."Connotations7.1 (1997-98): 97-103. Taylor defends his reading of Lucius as flawed and ironically portrayed and reasserts his argument that Lucius is not a redeemer figure at the end of the play:
- keywords: anthony, character, christian, lucius, pagan, religion, Tit, titus andronicus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer ofTitus Andronicus
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/TAYLOR62.HTM
- Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer ofTitus Andronicus."Connotations6.2 (1996-97): 138-57. Taylor questions the accepted critical reading of Lucius as a redeemer figure:
- keywords: character, christian, lucius, pagan, redeemer, religion, Tit, titus andronicus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Luminarium- http://www.luminarium.org/
- Luminariumprovides both a wide selection of electronic texts and up-to-date links to other resources on the Internet:
- keywords: electronic
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
- http://www.ccel.org/l/luther/
- Martin Luther's major works are available atChristian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: protestant, luther, martin
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Luther, Martin
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- M. M. Mahood,Shakespeare's Wordplay--Some Reappraisals
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/intmmm61.htm
- Leimberg, Inge. "M.M. Mahood,Shakespeare's Wordplay--Some Reappraisals Introducing the Subject."Connotations, 6.1 (1996-1997): 1-2. A reappraisal of Mahood's 1968 foundational bookShakespeare's Wordplay:
- keywords: connotations, wordplay
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- MATEO - editio theodoro-palatina online
- http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/start6.html
- The University of Mannheim, Germany, provides electronic facsimiles of Latin and German texts by Renaissance women. This site is in German:
- keywords: german, facsimiles, latin, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- MGM Movie Database: Richard III
- http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=RICHARD3
- MGM's official site forRichard 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):
- keywords: richard, r3, ian mckellen, loncraine
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- MIDIWORLD
- http://www.midiworld.com/earlymus.htm
- Midi files of early music are available atMidiworld:
- keywords: music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Marin Shakespeare Company
- http://www.marinshakespeare.org/
- San Rafael, California. The Maine Shakespeare Festival describes their upcoming productions, educational programs, and their company on their website:
- keywords: company, outdoor
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
- Marlowe's Jew of Malta
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_malta&PagePosition=1
- The famous tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta, as it was playd before the king and queene in his majesties theatre at White-Hall. London : Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, 1633. This text is available at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: jew, king, library, london, malta, marlowe, theatre, tragedy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Masterpiece Theatre |The Merchant of Venice
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/
- PBS screened a version ofThe Merchant of Venice. The website has everything from essays and interviews to a short extract of the Shylock defense scene:
- keywords: essays, interviews, merchant of venice, mv, shylock, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Matthew G. Scarsbrook's Page on Christopher Marlowe
- http://www.matthewgscarsbrook.com-a.googlepages.com/christophermarlowe
- Matthew G. Scarsbrook's site includes a detailed, easy-to-read profile on Marlowe, a comprehensive timeline, and descriptions of his known associates. There is also a collection of primary documents that relate to his controversial death:
- keywords: marlowe, christopher
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2007-07-04
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies- http://www.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html
- Ken McKoy has writtenA brief Guide to internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies:
- keywords: guide, performance, theatre
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Medieval & Renaissance Europe
- http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/
- EuroDocshosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. This site includes selected transcriptions, facsimiles and some translations by Richard Hacken:
- keywords: facsimiles, historical, medieval, translations
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Medieval Sourcebook- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1.html
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebookoffers an exhaustive and growing resources of texts at:
- keywords: index, medieval, sourcebook
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Medieval Sourcebook: Letter of Thomas Cranmer, 1533
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cramner-hen8.html
- An etext of the Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533 is available from theMedieval Sourcebookat:
- keywords: cranmer, H8, henry, divorce, letter
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Cranmer, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Medieval Sourcebook: Witchcraft Documents [15th Century]
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/witches1.html
- Witchcraft Documents from the 15th century are available from theMedieval Sourcebook:
- keywords: religion, witch, witchcraft
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > Witchcraft
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Medieval and Renaissance Food Homepage
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
- TheMedieval/Renaissance Food Homepage, created by Greg Lindahl, provides a comprehensive collection of articles, recipes, and resources on Renaissance cuisine. Access this collection at:
- keywords: articles, food, recipes, cuisine
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Food and drink
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html
- TheMedieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage, created by Greg Lindahl, provides articles, recipes, information on guilds, and more:
- keywords: articles, recipes, guilds, brewing, ale, alcohol, mead
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Food and drink
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Mercator's Map of Great Britain
- http://www.shrewfaire.com/References/
- A map of Great Britain (c. 1595) from Mercator's 'Atlas or Meditations of a Cosmographer on the Creation of the World and on the Form of Created Matter' can be located at:
- keywords: british, map, mercator, atlas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Maps
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Merchant of Venice: Quarto 2
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=merchant_q2&PagePosition=1
- The excellent history of the merchant of Venice : with the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets .London: Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 [i.e. 1619]. (Merchant of Venice):
- keywords: history, london, merchant, mv, quarto, venice
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Michigan Shakespeare Festival
- http://michshakefest.org/
- Jackson, Michigan. The website for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival houses an extensive photo gallery:
- keywords: festival, gallery
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-08

Midis For The Period- http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~cbladey/guy/html/midis.html
- Midis for the Periodprovides music made by composers living at the beginning of the seventeenth century:
- keywords: music, seventeenth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Mirour for Magistrates 1610
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=mirour_selections&PagePosition=1
- Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616. "How Qveene Cordila in despaire slew her selfe, the yeare before Christ, 800" FromIn A mirovr for magistrates : being a trve chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland...London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610. Furness Library Facsimile:
- keywords: chronicle, historie, library, london, richard
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Mirour for Magistrates 1610
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=mirour&PagePosition=1
- Richard Niccols' collectionA Mirovr for Magistrates(1610) gathers cautionary tales about the fall of princes. View this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: collection, richard, niccols, mirour, magistrates
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Niccols, Richard
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Miscellany of Scientific Treatises
- http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/occult/miscellany/?
- Miscellany of scientific treatises, (ca. 1450-1475) can be found in facsimile form at the University of Pennsylvania's Library, however, this site is no longer supporeted. Visit this site at:
- keywords: science, treatise
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2007-01-04
- More's Life ofRichard III
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=more_richIII&PagePosition=1
- The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third. Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text can be accessed at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: R3, death, edward, england, fifth, historie, library, life, london, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- More's Life ofRichard III
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=more_richIII&PagePosition=1
- More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third.Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text is available throug theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: R3, king, edward, richard, yorke, source, moore
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Mosse's Arraignment of Usury
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=mosse&PagePosition=1
- Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614.The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie : that is, the iniquitie and vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in sixe sermons, preached at Saint Edmunds Burie in Suffolke, vpon Prouerb. 28.8 .London : Printed by the widdow Orwin, for Iohn Porter, 1595. View images of this original text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism- http://www.geocities.com/litpageadd/moultongeneral.html
- Moulton, Charles Wells.Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, 1901. Text provides a collection of commentaries and criticism from the Early Modern Period through to the late nineteenth century:
- keywords: collection, criticism, english, library
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)
- valid as of 2005-09-07

Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet- http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internetby Terry A. Gray, is the best maintained, and most inclusive portal to all things Shakespearean:
- keywords: gateway, portal, search
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
- Gray, Terry.Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, 1995-2005. Gray's site has an excellent list of links to Shakespeare criticism on the Web:
- keywords: criticism, links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Much Ado About NothingPenguin Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82528_1_10,00.html
- McGlinn, Jeanne M. and James E. McGlinn. "Teachers' Guides:Much Ado About Nothing: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: penguin, ado, guide, much, teaching, teacher
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > Much Ado About Nothing
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments ofHamlet
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/BROWN21.HTM
- Russell Brown. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments ofHamlet."Connotations2.1 (1992): 16-33. Russell Brown analyses what the last scenes of the play, particularly the death scenes, add to the characterization of Hamlet and our understanding of his interaction with the world:
- keywords: death, Ham, hamlet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2006-02-20
- Music at the New Globe
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/schumusi.htm
- Schutz, Chantal. "Music at the New Globe."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1 (May, 2001): 4.1-36. Schutz reviews the style and use of music in recent productions of Shakespeare's works at the Globe:
- keywords: performance, globe, music
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare'sVenus and Adonis
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/kuchvenu.htm
- Kuchar, Gary. "Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare'sVenus and Adonis."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (September, 1999): 4.1-24. Kuchar explores different thematic and stylistic approaches toVenus and Adonis:
- keywords: desire, narrative, style, theme, Ven, venus and adonis
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Venus and Adonis
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Nashville Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.nashvilleshakes.org/index.html
- Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Shakespeare Festival website describes the educational outreach programs offered by the company, their latest production, and displays some photographs from last year's production:
- keywords: education, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
National Portrait Gallery- http://www.npg.org.uk/
- The National Portrait Gallery, London provides a picture library search with information on approximately 10,000 works. Search by artist, sitter, or title or browse alphabetical lists of artists and sitters You can restrict your search to images available on the website:
- keywords: gallery, library, london, portrait
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare'sThe Tempest
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/cwebtemp.html
- Carey-Webb, Allen. "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare'sThe Tempest."Early Modern Literary Studies5.1 (May, 1999): 3.1-39. Approaches the schooling and teaching practices inThe Tempestin terms of sixteenth-century politics and colonial discourses:
- keywords: colonial, discourse, education, history, national, politics, sixteenth, teaching, Tmp, tempest
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries
- http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01toc.html
- There is a special issue ofEMLSdevoted to discoveries made with the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) at the University of Toronto at:
- keywords: database, dictionaries, early modern, english, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- News on the Rialto
- http://www.shakespearemag.blogspot.com/
- Published byShakespeare Magazinethis excellent blog by Micheal LoMonico offers the most current news items about all things Shakespearean:
- keywords: blog, news
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01

No Sweat Shakespeare- http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/
- No Sweat Shakespeareis a site that endeavours to present Shakespeare's works with the "the aim of helping 21st century students understand Shakespeare's language." The site provides a number of helpful links, play and character summaries, interesting information that targets youth and children, and more. The site does exhibit some advertising, but it is minimal in comparision to the materials it makes available:
- keywords: article, festival, guide, insult, life, quote, summaries, time, translation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-25
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2006-09-28
- North Carolina Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.ncshakes.org/
- High Point, North Carolina. For every play being performed, you can access directors notes, a study guide, and a synopsis on the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival website:
- keywords: education, festival, study guide, synopses
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
- Northern Renaissance ArtWeb
- http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm
- Northern Renaissance ArtWeb, designed by Sarah E. Cloud in connection with Michigan State University, provides a number of links to information on and images by many artists:
- keywords: art, links
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Numme Feete: Meter in Early Modern England
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/tatefeet.htm
- Tate, Joseph. "Numme Feete: Meter in Early Modern England."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 3.1-31. Tate looks at the experience of meter in the Early Modern Period including descriptions of audience responses to meter as well as writers' conceptions of it:
- keywords: early, modern, england, meter
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies- http://www.the-orb.net
- TheOn-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)provides many useful resources for Medieval scholars:
- keywords: medieval, resources
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Ojai Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.ojaishakespeare.org/
- Ojai, California. The "News" section of the Ojai Shakespeare Festival website provides performance reviews and press releases:
- keywords: festival, press releases, reviews
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-12
- Old Testament Life and Literature
- http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/
- Larue, Gerald A.Old Testament Life and Literature. Once a classroom standard in bible studies, this site presents this work in electronic form:
- keywords: bible, testament, religion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
- http://www.ccel.org/a/augustine/doctrine/doctrine.html
- On Christian Doctrine, Saint Augustine, is available atChristian Classics Ethereal Library:
- keywords: christian, doctrine, augustine
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > St. Augustine
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- On Seeing Madame Bernhardt'sHamlet
- http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/docshort/onseeham.htm
- Robins, Elizabeth. "On Seeing Madame Bernhardt'sHamlet." North American Review, 171 (December 1900): 908-19. An article written by famous Ibsen actress Elizabeth Robins on the faults of the character ofHamletbeing played by a woman:
- keywords: actress, elizabeth, ham, hamlet, review, bernhardt
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Actors
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Open Source Shakespeare- http://opensourceshakespeare.org
- "Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century." Use the advanced search function, read the plays, and look up words in the concordance:
- keywords: collection, texts, concordance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2006-03-20
- Ophelia - A Letter by a Victorian Actress (Hamlet)
- http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-fau.htm
- Faucit, Helena. "Ophelia"Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. 6th ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899: 3-21. Excerpt transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. A discussion of the character of Ophelia by one the the actresses famous for playing her in the Victorian period:
- keywords: actress, criticism, Ham, hamlet, ophelia, victorian
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Orator
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=orator_selections&PagePosition=1
- Le Sylvain, ca. 1535-ca. 1585. "Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian" FromIn The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of eclamations : some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient writers, the rest of the authors owne inuention : part of which are of matters happened in our age .London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1596. View images of this original text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: london, merchant, mv, venice, source
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Orlando Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.shakespearefest.org/
- Orlando, Florida. The Orlando Shakespeare Festival's website has photographs from past performances stored in the "Archives" section and information about various educational programs:
- keywords: archives, festival, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
- Othello: Quarto 2
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=othello_1630&PagePosition=1
- The tragoedy ofOthello, the Moore of Venice: as it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties Seruants. London: Printed by A.M. for Richard Hawkins, 1630. (Othello):
- keywords: globe, london, oth, othello, richard, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Othello: Quarto 4
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=othello_1681&PagePosition=1
- Othello, The Moor of Venice: a tragedy: as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, And now at the Theater Royal, by His Majesties servants.London : Printed for W. Weak, 1681. (Othello):
- keywords: globe, london, oth, othello, theater, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- OthelloPenguin Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82531_1_10,00.html
- James, Deborah. "Teachers' Guides:Othello: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: guide, Oth, othello
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-06
Other Accents: Some Problems with Identifying Elizabethan Pronunciation- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/gurrothe.htm
- Gurr, Andrew. "Other Accents: Some Problems in Identifying Elizabethan Pronunciation."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 5.1-4. Gurr discusses the foremost books on Elizabethan pronunciation, their conclusion that it is impossible to identify with any certainty what Elizabethan English sounded like, then provides two famous Shakespearean speeches transcribed with what he insists is a Elizabethan accent:
- keywords: elizabethan, pronunciation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1567)
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=ovid&PagePosition=1
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.. The XV. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis. (Metamorphoses. English). London : William Seres, 1567. This text is made available through theFurness Collection:
- keywords: english, library, london, metamorphoses, ovid, william
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1567)
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=ovid&PagePosition=1
- The XV. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuledMetamorphosis. (Metamorphoses. English). London : William Seres, 1567. This text can be viewed at theFurness Collectionat:
- keywords: metamorphoses, ovid
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Ovid
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Ov.+Met.+1.1
- Metamorphosesis available in Shakespeare's preferred translation, by Arthur Golding, atPerseus Project:
- keywords: metamorphoses, source, ovid, perseus, golding
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Ovid
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
- http://www.pnrs.org/
- ThePacific Northwest Renaissance Societypromotes scholarship in Early Modern Studies through their annual academic conference:
- keywords: association, early, modern, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/mary.html
- Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, by Lady Mary Wroth, is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: lady, mary, wroth, pamphilia, amphilanthus, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Wroth, Lady Mary
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.pashakespeare.org/
- Center Valley, Pennsylvania. The website for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival lists information about their organization and upcoming productions:
- keywords: festival, pennsylvania
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-11
- Pericles: Quarto 5
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=pericles&PagePosition=1
- The late, and much admired play, calledPericles, Prince of Tyre : With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince . London : Printed by I.N. for R.B., 1630. (Pericles):
- keywords: history, london, per, pericles
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en&lookup=Aeschylus
- Major works byAeschylusare available atPerseus Project:
- keywords: perseus, aeschylus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aeschylus
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en&lookup=Aristophanes
- Major works byAristophanesare available at thePerseus Project:
- keywords: aristophanes, perseus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristophanes
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en&lookup=Aristotle
- Major works by Aristotle are available at thePerseus Project:
- keywords: perseus, aristotle
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en&lookup=Euripides
- Major works byEuripidesare available at thePerseus Project:
- keywords: perseus, euripides
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Euripides
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en&lookup=Homer
- Major works of Homer are available atPerseus Project:
- keywords: homer, perseus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Homer
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Perseus Project: Table of Contents
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=Any&lang=en&lookup=Vergil
- Major works by Virgil are available at thePerseus Project:
- keywords: virgil, perseus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Virgil
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Personations:The Taming of the Shrewand the Limits of Theoretical Criticism
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/yachshak.html
- Yachnin, Paul. "Personations:The Taming of the Shrewand the Limits of Theoretical Criticism."Early Modern Literary Studies2.1 (1996): 2.1-31. Yachnin presents different critical and theoretical approaches applied toThe Taming of the Shrewand their shortcomings:
- keywords: criticism, Shr, taming of the shrew, theory
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Taming of the Shrew
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Petruchio's Horse: Equine and Household Mismanagement inThe Taming of the Shrew
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/heanshak.html
- Heaney, Peter F. "Petruchio's Horse: Equine and Household Management inThe Taming of the Shrew."Early Modern Literary Studies4.1 (May 1998): 2.1-12. Heaney explores sixteenth-century views on housekeeping and husbandry through the connections he makes between the conditions of Petruchio's horse and his household inThe Taming of the Shrew:
- keywords: horse, household, husbandry, petruchio, sixteenth, Shr, taming of the shrew
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Taming of the Shrew
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/nashe1.html
- Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nashe, is available at theRenascence Editions:
- keywords: pierce, penilesse, penniless, supplication, divell, devil, nashe, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Nashe, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive- http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/archive.goals.html
- ThePiers Plowman Electronic Archive, created by Hoyt N. Duggan, aims to achieve a "multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman":
- keywords: archive, piers, plowman, allegory, dream
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Langland
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Plague
- http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/
- DeCameron Web's site on the Plague provides contemporary perspectives on this period:
- keywords: plague, disease
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
- http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe. Excerpt: "This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530." Visit this site at:
- keywords: medical, disease, plague
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Play Shakespeare
- http://www.playshakespeare.com
- This site contains a well-organized discussion forum, as well as reviews, links, and edited versions of Shakespeare's texts. However, Play Shakespeare uses the eighteenth century tradition of indenting shared lines that recent scholarly editions have abandoned in favor of the formatting in the Folio, which does not indent shared lines. Play Shakespeare is administered by Ron Severdia and various contributors:
- keywords: discussion, reviews, texts
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Discussion Forums
- valid as of 2007-06-18
Plutarch, Lives: Caius Martius Coriolanus:Julius Caesar: Marcus Brutus: Marcus Antonius: Octavius Caesar Augustus: Theseus: Alcibiades- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0078
- Plutarch's Lives. Includes the lives of Caius Martius Coriolanus,Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, Marcus Antonius, Octavius Caesar Augustus, Theseus, Alcibiades. The edition is transcribed from the translation of Sir Thomas North, the version Shakespeare used. Available from thePerseus Projectat Tufts University:
- keywords: Cor, caesar, edition, julius, perseus, plutarch, coriolanus, brutus, antonius, augustus, theseus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > The Roman plays
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Poet Index for Representative Poetry On-line
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indexpoet.html
- Byrd, William. "Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price" is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: index, poetry, william
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Pope's Lear
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=lear_pope&PagePosition=1
- The life and death ofKing Lear. In The works of Shakespear : in six volumes / collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, in the Strand, 1723-1725. (King Lear):
- keywords: death, king, lear, life, london, lr
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Primary Resources for the study of Duelling and Fencing
- http://www.musketeer.org/online.html
- Primary sources concerning arts of combat, from theSociety for Creative Anachronism, Inc.,can be found at:
- keywords: anachronism, combat, dueling, fencing
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14

Princeton Dante Project- http://www.princeton.edu/dante/
- The Princeton Dante Projectis an excellent free site but it does require users to register:
- keywords: dante
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Dante
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Printing: Renaissance & Reformation
- http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/renprint.html
- Printing: Renaissance and Reformationis a "virtual exhibit" by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the University of South Carolina. Contains good scans of many printed works, including the cover of the King James Bible:
- keywords: bible, james, king, reformation, printing
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Printing in the Renaissance
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Proclamation of Jane Grey as Queen of England
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/jane.html
- An online text of the royal proclamation which made Jane Grey the Queen of England is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: jane, grey, england, queen, royal, proclamation
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Project MUSE - Theatre Journal
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/
- TheTheatre Journalpublished byProject Museis available to subscribing institutions at:
- keywords: journal, theatre
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MonWork.html
- Selected prose and poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is available through theElectronic Text Centerat the University of Virginia:
- keywords: poetry, prose, lady, mary, wortley, montagu
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Queen of the First Quarto
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/HAMLETQ1%20QUEEN.txt
- Shand, G.B. "Queen of the First Quarto." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A performance-oriented study of Queen Gertrude inHamlet's First Quarto.
- keywords: gertrude, Ham, hamlet, performance, quarto, queen
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Queensland Theatre Company
- http://www.qldtheatreco.com.au
- Australia's Queensland Theatre Company performs both Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean plays. Their website has excellent archives of their past performances, as well as educational resources for teachers:
- keywords: teacher, performance, australia, education
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Australia
- valid as of 2007-04-05
- Quirky Shakespearean Words
- http://panini.northwestern.edu/mmueller/ShakeQuirks/index.html
- This web site consists of notes or little essays about Shakespearean words that carry memory traces of their different occurrences or are linked to each other in strange ways. Some of the inspiration for this site comes from Edward Armstrong's 1946 study,Shakespeare's imagination; a study of the psychology of association and inspiration:
- keywords: words, quirky, rare
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Shakespeare's Language
- valid as of 2007-04-02
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-10-07
REED - Patrons and Performances- http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/
- 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:
- keywords: performances, England, Wales, Cheshire, troupes, maps, records, drama
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2007-05-04
REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html
- Records of Early English Dramahas extensive links to Medieval, Shakespeare and paleographical sites of interest on theirWWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2page:
- keywords: drama, renaissance, history, medieval, music, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Rare Book Room- http://www.rarebookroom.org/
- A valuable collection of facsimiles of many early books, including early Shakespeare editions (Folio and Quarto). Select "Shakespeare" from the pulldown menu "List by Author" to see the titles.
- keywords: facsimile, folio, quarto, sources
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2008-04-03
Records of Early English Drama (REED)- http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html
- Records of Early English Drama (REED), from the Centre for Research in Early English Drama at the University of Toronto, provides useful links to early drama and other Medieval sites:
- keywords: drama, english, medieval
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Redemption and Damnation:Measure for MeasureandOthelloas Contrasting Paired Visions
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#Redemption
- Bennett, Robert. "Redemption and Damnation:Measure for MeasureandOthelloAs Contrasting Paired Visions."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)19 (1996). Bennett presentsMeasure for MeasureandOthelloas the two sides of a cohesive statement about redemption and damnation:
- keywords: damnation, MM, measure for measure, Oth, othello, redemption
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Remembering Death: Deathbed Scenes in Shakespeare's Plays and the Visual Tradition
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/DEATHBED%20SCENES.txt
- Evett, David. "Remembering Death: Deathbed Scenes in Shakespeare's Plays and the Visual Tradition." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, (1994). Evett discusses Shakespeare's deathbed scenes (predominantly from his history plays) in terms of early modern attitudes toward and visual representations of death (and just a dash of Freud):
- keywords: death, scenes, history plays, freud, visual
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Renaissance & Baroque
- http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
- A collection of images of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture are available at the Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) website. This site is designed by Allan T. Kohl of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design:
- keywords: architecture, baroque, collection, sculpture
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Architecture
- valid as of 2005-10-21
Renaissance & Baroque Society- http://www.rbsp.org/
- TheRenaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgcontains a section listing sites that deal with early musical instruments. Explore this lovely site at:
- keywords: baroque, instruments
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Renaissance Architecture - Great Buildings Online
- http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/renaissance.html
- This site links to a number of pages with examples of Renaissance architecture, including English work as well as Continental. Unfortunately, some images are only available on CD-ROM:
- keywords: architecture, english, buildings
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Architecture
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Renaissance Dance
- http://www.rendance.org/
- The Renaissance Dance Home Pagecontains information and archives from the RenDance discussion list, as well as gives links to on-line resources for students of Renaissance dance, including transcriptions from manuscript sources. Access these resources at:
- keywords: dance, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Renaissance Dante in Print
- http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/index.html
- This site contains beautiful colour facsimiles, in jpeg format, of over 30 Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy (downloading speed is compromised somewhat for the quality of the images):
- keywords: divine comedy, dante, italy, facsimiles
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Dante
- valid as of 2007-03-19
Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET)- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html
- Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET)at the University of Toronto is a growing source of scholarly e-texts:
- keywords: electronic, e-texts
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Renaissance Forum- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/index.html
- Renaissance Forumis a refereed electronic journal on Early Modern Literary and Historical studies:
- keywords: early, electronic, forum, historical, journal, modern, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Renaissance Forum
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/clare.htm
- Clare, Janet.Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaisscance and Reformation. (University College Dublin). Exerpt:"The writings of women, whether religious, popular, humanist or courtly, had in the mid sixteenth to early seventeenth century at least one common aspect: women writers represented in their work an alternative culture which ran alongside the dominant culture and in writing as some did with a view to publication, they were transgressing boundaries." View the full-text version of this document at:
- keywords: culture, female, forum, reformation, seventeenth, sixteenth, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102provides numerous images of Renaissance and Baroque structures scanned from slides by Professor C. W. Westfall of the University of Virginia, School of Architecture:
- keywords: architecture, baroque, england, structures
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Architecture
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Renaissance, The Elizabethan World- http://elizabethan.org
- Renaissance: The Elizabethan Worldcontains links to information on everyday life, the sumptuary laws which dictated what one was allowed to wear, heraldry, and other topics connected to Renaissance England. View this site at:
- keywords: elizabethan, life, law, sumptuary
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
Renascence Editions- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
- Check theRenascence Editionsat the University of Oregon for works printed in English, 1477-1799; well-represented authors include Milton, Spenser, Sidney and the prolific Anonymous:
- keywords: english, milton, renascence, spenser
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Representative Poetry On-line: Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm
- The University of Toronto on its websiteRepresentative Poetry On-Lineprovides a collection of poetry criticism written in both prose and verse including articles by Arnold, Keats, and other poets and critics on Shakespeare. Search by keyword "Shakespeare":
- keywords: articles, collection, criticism, poetry, prose, verse
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Representative Poetry On-line: Version 3.0- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/
- Representative Poetry On-line(Ian Lancashire) offers a wonderful anthology of poetry from the year 449 to the present day:
- keywords: online, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Research resources- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Shakespeare_Sites/Research_resources.html
- See also the journals included in the section on Shakespearean resources:
- keywords: crossreference
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2006-05-05

RhymeZone Shakespeare Search- http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/
- RhymeZoneallows you to search Shakespeare's works for particular words or phrases. Browse Shakespeare's most popular lines or, for fun, search lines incrementally. The text used appears to be the generally available public domain version, but searches are simple and fast:
- keywords: figure, rhetoric, speech, rhyme, search, lines, quotes, passages
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Richard III
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html
- The History of Richard the Thirdis available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: R3, history, renascence, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Richard III
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html
- An edited version of Thomas More'sHistory of King Richard the Thirdis available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: R3, history, king, moore, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-14

Richard III- A Play for our Time- http://library.thinkquest.org/26314/
- The siteRichard III, A Play for Our Time - from Think Quest - provides historical, political, and psychological perspectives on the play and its central character:
- keywords: history, richard, r3, politics
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Richard IIIPenguins Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82534_1_10,00.html
- McGlinn, Jeanne M. "Teachers' Guides:Richard III: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: guide, R3, richard, teacher
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Richard IIISociety - American Branch- http://www.r3.org
- TheRichard III Society'smandate is to fight the myths and disparaging allusions which have grown up around the historical figure. Many of these are a result of the popularity of Shakespeare's play, which paints a rather grim figure of a King who actually instigated many social advancements in England:
- keywords: england, history, king, richard, r3, myth
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Richard IIISociety -- McKellen Shakespeare Film
- http://www.r3.org/onstage/FILM/homepage.html
- 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:
- keywords: mckellen, r3, richard, movie, mgm
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2007-06-18
- Richard IIISociety--Al Pacino's Looking for Richard
- http://www.r3.org/pacino/
- Al Pacino'sLooking for Richard(Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Aidan Quinn) explores the background of a production ofRichard III. Includes viewer's guide, lesson plan and suggested reading:
- keywords: guide, richard, r3, film, movie, pacino
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Rogue Shakespeare Company
- http://rogueshakespeare.com/
- London, England. The Rogue Shakespeare Company does not produce plays by Shakespeare, but by Ryan J-W Smith, who writes rhymed verse drama in the style of Shakespeare. The website provides information about Smith's plays and also contains several press releases:
- keywords: company, england, press release
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2006-09-22
- Romancing the Bard
- http://www.colby.edu/personal/leosborn/contents.html
- Osborne, Laurie. "Romancing the Bard." Osborne explores the use of Shakespeare and Shakespearean references in that most vilified form of popular culture, the romance novel:
- keywords: bard, culture, women, romance, appropriation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture- http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Cultureis an essay on the Humanists in the Renaissance, from the Library of Congress. This site includes images of original manuscripts:
- keywords: vatican, culture, library, manuscripts
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Romeo & Juliet- http://www.romeoandjuliet.com/
- Baz Luhrmann's spectacularly modernizedRomeo and Juliet(Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) is celebrated in this site. Listen to the entire soundtrack online:
- keywords: danes, dicaprio, movie, rom, romeo and juliet, soundtrack, lurhmann
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Romeo and Juliet,Love's Labour's Lost, andRichard II
- http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespeare/ShortCourse.html
- Michael Best provides a short, free, online course on three of Shakespeare's early plays and some of his sonnets:
- keywords: course, best, love's labour's lost, online, sonnets, rom, romeo and juliet, richard, uvic
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Romeo and Juliet: Quarto 5
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=rj_q5&PagePosition=1
- The most excellent and lamentable tragedie ofRomeo and Juliet: as it hath been sundry times publikely acted by the Kings Majesties servants at the Globe. London: Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke, 1637. (Romeo and Juliet):
- keywords: globe, john, london, rom, romeo and juliet, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Romeo and JulietPenguin Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82537_1_10,00.html
- Reed, Arthea J.S. "Teachers' Guides:Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: guide, Rom, romeo, teaching, teacher
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > Romeo and Juliet
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Romeus and Juliet
- http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/BrookeIndex.html
- Philip Weller's site features a scene index, notable quotes, themes and motifs, sonnet proportions, lesson plans, and other helpful information. It also includes sources Shakespeare used, such as Romeus and Juliet.
- keywords: arthur brooke, romeus and juliet, romeo and juliet, rom, romeo, source, romeus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Romeo and Juliet
- Romeus and Juliet
- http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/BrookeIndex.html
- The poem by Arthur Brooke,Romeus and Juliet, was used by Shakespeare as the source for his playRomeo and Juliet (not "Ethel the pirate's daughter" as Tom Stoppard wittily suggests in the filmShakespeare in Love). A step-by-step summary of Brooke's poem is provided atShakespeare Navigators.
- keywords: brooke, romeo, juliet, source, Rom
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Romeo and Juliet
- Rosalynde
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/lodge/lodge1.html
- Rosalynde. Euphues golden legacie., by Thomas Lodge, is available at theRenascence Editions:
- keywords: euphues, legacy, delodge, renascence, rosalyn, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Lodge, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Rosalynde
- http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/lodge/lodge1.html
- Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacyby Thomas Lodge, the source forAs You Like It, is available at theRenascence Editions:
- keywords: as you like it, AYL, thomas, lodge
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > As You Like It
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Rowe'sThe Life of Mr. William Shakespear
- http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/rowe.htm
- Rowe, Nicholas. Introduction.Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, 1709. (Site is maintained by Terry Gray) Rowe was Shakespeare's first editor as well as his first biographer:
- keywords: life, rowe, biography
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- SCA Inc. - Chivalrous Arts
- www.sca.org/activities/chivarts.html
- TheSCA'spage,Arts of Combat and Chivalry, is an extensive resource for regulations, weaponry and general information on combat and chivalry:
- keywords: chivalrous, combat, chivalry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/music.html
- TheSoceity for Creative Anachronism's Medieval and Renaissance Musicsite covers early music, traditional bardic style music, and links to some music files. Tune in to this site at:
- keywords: minstrel, bard, music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- SCA Renaissance Dance
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance.html
- TheSociety for Creative Anachronism's Renaissance Dancepage is full of resources for Medieval and Renaissance dance. There are also a few links to Middle-Eastern dances and a number of links to fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century dances. Locate this collection of resources at:
- keywords: dance, music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-10-05

SCETI: Furness Collection- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/
- Several individual plays and other early titles of interest are available in facsimile from theFurness Libraryat the University of Pennsylvania. The site requires a modern browser and a fast connection to the Internet:
- keywords: collection, library
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays
- valid as of 2005-09-09

SCETI: Furness Collection- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/
- The wonderfulFurness Library, at the University of Pennsylvania, now provides vibrant facsimiles from various Shakespeare plays and other renaissance works of interest in Shakespeare studies, such asHolinshed's Chronicles. This site requires Flash plug-in:
- keywords: collection, facsimiles, folio, holinshed, library, manuscript, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (1609)- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/shakespeare/1609inti.html
- "A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period." Published by Web Development Group, University of Toronto Library, and edited by Ian Lancashire:
- keywords: edition, electronic, renaissance, son, sonnets
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Sonnets
- valid as of 2005-09-12
SHAKSPER- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/shak-L.html
- SHAKSPER(via theEarly Modern Literary Studieswebsite) provides the archived files of the listserve where one can find discussions about all things Shakespearean ranging from the trivial to the profound:
- keywords: archive
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
SHAKSPER- http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/internet.sites.html
- A selected guide to Shakespeare on the internet fromSHAKSPER (The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference):
- keywords: none
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference- http://www.shaksper.net/
- SHAKSPERis the international electronic conference for Shakespearean researchers, instructors, students, and those who share their academic interests and concerns. Hardy M. Cook of Bowie State University is the editor of this moderated mailing list. The "Browse SHAKSPER" button allows access to the scholarly papers archive:
- keywords: archive, electronic, international, papers
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
STAA: The Shakespeare Theater Association of America- http://www.staaonline.org
- Visit the website for the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA), where all members' web pages are listed. Those included in this section of the site are from other countries, or are particularly helpful in providing educational materials. For the STAA Directory, visit:
- keywords: america, association, company, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fbeaumont1.html
- Francis Beaumont's poem "Salmacis and Hermaphroditus" is available at theRenascence Editions:
- keywords: beaumont, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Beaumont, Francis
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Saxo Grammaticus: Book III
- http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/saxo~1.htm
- Saxo Grammaticus.Book III. This principle source ofHamletis made available by Clifford Stetner of Columbia University:
- keywords: hamlet, saxo, grammaticus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Saxo Grammaticus
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Seattle Shakespeare Company
- http://www.seattleshakespeare.org/
- Seattle, Washington. Find out what is coming up this season, what plays have been previously produced and archived, and what kind of education programs are offered by the Seattle Shakespeare Company :
- keywords: company, play, performance, season
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Second Life Shakespeare Company
- http://slshakespeare.com/
- The Second Life (SL) Shakespeare Company has taken Shakespeare into the virtual world in a unique way. This website offers information about the companies development of wardrobe and animation for the characters, as well as, the stage craft that goes into make a virtual SL performance possible. This company offers a unique Shakespeare experience that may attract Shakespeare lovers to SL:
- keywords: company, animation, virtual, wardrobe, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > General
- valid as of 2009-05-01
- Selected Poetry of Amilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/195.html
- Exerpts fromSalve Deus Rex Iudaeorum(Eve's Apology in Defence of Women) are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: amilia, lanyer, defence, poetry, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Lanyer, Aemilia
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/27.html
- Selected poems by Anne Bradstreet are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, bradstreet, anne
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Bradstreet, Anne
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/120.html
- Selected poems by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: anne, finch, countess, poetry, winchilsea
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Winchilsea, Countess of, Anne Finch
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/179.html
- Selected works by Ben Jonson are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: ben, jonson, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Jonson, Ben
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/216.html
- Selected poetry by Christopher Marlowe is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: christopher, hero, leander, marlowe, passionate, poetry, shepard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/112.html
- Selected poems by Elizabeth I are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: elizabeth, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Elizabeth I, of England
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of George Chapman (1559?-1634)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/59.html
- Selected poetry of George Chapman is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: chapman, george, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Chapman, George
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/131.html
- Selected Poems by George Gascoigne are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: george, gascoigne, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Gascoigne, George
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of George Peele (1556-1596)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/254.html
- George Peele'sHis Golden Locks Time hath to Silver Turn'dis available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: george, peele, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Peele, George
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/317.html
- Selected poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: earl, henry, howard, surrey, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Surrey, Earl of, Henry Howard
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/157.html
- Selected poems by Henry VIII, King of England are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: england, h8, henry, king, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Henry VIII, of England
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of John Donne (1572-1631)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/98.html
- A large collection of John Donne's poems are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: collection, donne, index, john, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Donne, John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of John Dowland (1563-1626)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/102.html
- Dowland, John.Weep You No More, Sad Fountainis available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: john, dowland, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/124.html
- Selected poems by John Fletcher are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: fletcher, john, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Fletcher, John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of John Lyly (1554-1606)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/210.html
- Selected poetry by John Lyly, such asCupid and my Campaspe play'dis available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: john, lyly, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Lyly, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of John Webster (ca. 1580-ca. 1632)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/348.html
- Selected poetry of John Webster, such asCall for the Robin-redbreast and the Wren, is available onRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: john, webster, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Webster, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of John Wilbye (1574-1638)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/357.html
- Wilbye, John. "Love Not Me For Comely Grace" is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: john, wilbye, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Selected Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/228.html
- Selected poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, lady, mary, wortley, montagu
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/104.html
- Selected Poems from Michael Drayton (1563-1621) are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: drayton, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Drayton, Michael
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Nicholas Breton (ca. 1554-after 1625)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/28.html
- Nicholas Breton's poemThe Passionate Shepherdis available online atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Breton, Nicholas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/134.html
- Gibbons, Orlando.The Silver Swan, Who Living Had No Noteis available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: orlando, gibbons, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Robert Greene (1560-1592)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/140.html
- Selected poetry by Robert Greene is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: greene, robert, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Greene, Robert
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/300.html
- Selected poems by Sir Philip Sideny are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, philip, sidney
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/367.html
- Selected poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, sir, thomas, wyatt
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Wyatt, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/88.html
- A selection of poetry by Sir William D'Avenant is available onRepresentative Poetry Online, inculding thePreface to Gondibert, an Heroick Poem (1651/1673):
- keywords: poetry, d'avenant
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > D'Avenant, Sir William
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/50.html
- Selected works by Thomas Campion are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, thomas, campion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/91.html
- Selected poetry of Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632) is available onRepresentative Poetry Online, including his peom,Art Thou Poor:
- keywords: art, dekker, poetry, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Dekker, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/205.html
- Selected poems by Thomas Lodge are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: lodge, poetry, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Lodge, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/235.html
- Selected works of Thomas Morely are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, thomas, morley
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/239.html
- Selected poems of Thomas Nashe are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: thomas, nashe, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Nashe, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Weelkes (1576?-1623)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/349.html
- Weelkes, Thomas."Thule, the Period of Cosmography" is available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: thomas, weelkes, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Poetry of Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/369.html
- Selected poems by Walter Alexander Raleigh are available atRepresentative Poetry Online:
- keywords: poetry, walter, raleigh
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Ralegh, Sir Walter
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montagu.html
- The Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montaguis available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: poetry, prose, renascence, lady, mary, wortley, montagu
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Selected Works of John Lyly
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lylybib.htm
- The Works of John Lylyare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: john, lyly
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Lyly, John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Sh:in:E
- http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/
- Shakespeare in Europe, (Sh:in:E), a project of the English Department at Basel University, Switzerland. A substantial portion of this site is in German:
- keywords: languages, german
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- Shakeseare Suite : Bienvenue / Welcome
- http://www.chez.com/shake/
- All 154 Shakespeare sonnets illustrated by French painter Etienne Yver. This site is available only in French:
- keywords: french, illustrated, sonnets
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shakespeare & Company
- http://www.shakespeare.org/
- Lennox, Massachusetts. The Shakespeare & Company website includes a photo gallery of their previous productions:
- keywords: company, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Shakespeare 4 Kidz- http://www.shakespeare4kidz.com
- The goal of Shakespeare 4 Kidz is to create a stimulating, engaging and accessible session in which young children are introduced to their very first Shakespearean story. Their site includes information on their touring theatre company, as well as Shakespeare links, teacher resources, games and quizzes:
- keywords: kids, teaching, theater, games, links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2007-03-07
Shakespeare Association of America- http://www.ShakespeareAssociation.org/
- TheShakespeare Association of Americais devoted to the "advanced study of Shakespeare's work and times":
- keywords: america, association
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- valid as of 2005-09-06
Shakespeare Authorship- http://shakespeareauthorship.com/
- The Shakespeare Authorship Pageis "dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare." This site offers a critical examination of claims that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him:
- keywords: authorship
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Authorship
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare Behind Bars
- http://www.shakespearebehindbars.com/
- 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:
- keywords: documentary, dvd, film, Tempest, Tmp
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2008-01-14
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is a charity organization dedicated to Shakespeare education. It runs museums in Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's Birthplace, Hall's Croft, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Mary Arden's House, and Harvard House), a library and archive of the Royal Shakespeare Company and historical documents concerning Shakespeare and his family, and Shakespeare programs for schools and teachers:
- keywords: association, international, birthplace
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Outline of Shakespeare's Life
- http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/12/12
- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has an excellent discussion of Shakespeare's life on its website:
- keywords: birthplace, life, stratford
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2006-11-29
Shakespeare Bulletin- http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org
- TheShakespeare Bulletinis a peer-reviewed journal of performance criticism and scholarship that provides commentary on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama through feature articles, theatre and film reviews, and book reviews:
- keywords: criticism, journal, performance, print
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare Database Project
- http://www.shkspr.uni-muenster.de/
- The Shakespeare Database Project'swebsite (Germany) describes their relational database CD-ROM software--Shakespeare and philology in the electronic age. "The project has built a highly structured database since 1983 which integrates morphological, lexical, and grammatical knowledge, as well as textual and editorial information":
- keywords: database, electronic, linguistics, germany
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare Experience
- http://shakespearence.blogspot.com/
- This is very good and informative personal and reflexive blog by Alan K. Farrar:
- keywords: blog
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-04-30
Shakespeare Festivals and Theaters- http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/linksfestivals.htm
- This detailed and comprehensive list of Shakespeare theater companies and festivals lists primarily American companies, but many international companies are also included:
- keywords: canada, companies, international, festivals, national, performance, theater, usa
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > General
- valid as of 2007-01-16
- Shakespeare First Folio
- http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/july2001.html
- Glasgow University's special collections section provides some selections from their annotated copy of the First Folio:
- keywords: first, folio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare Foundation of Spain
- http://www.uv.es/~fse/fsemenuk.html
- TheShakespeare Foundation Spainhosted the International Shakespeare Association meeting in 2001:
- keywords: association, international, spain
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Shakespeare Illustrated- http://shakespeare.emory.edu/illustrated_index.cfm
- Shakespeare Illustrated, a scholarly and growing site developed by Harry Rusche, has a fine collection of images of earlier illustrations of the plays. Some are currently offline for copyright reasons, but the collection is still impressive, and is accompanied by some insightful critical materials:
- keywords: collection, illustrated, paintings, images, illustrations
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shakespeare Images
- http://www1.umw.edu/~wkemp/gallery/shakespeare_images/shakimages1.htm
- Bill Kemp of Mary Washington College maintains a gallery of public domain Shakespeare images. There is also a link to more images at the bottom of this page:
- keywords: gallery, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-10-21
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Shakespeare Links
- http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/shakespeare.html
- Robert Teeter's Shakespeare page provides links to a number of Shakespeare sites:
- keywords: links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
Shakespeare Magazine- http://www.shakespearemag.com
- Shakespearemag.comis the website forShakespearemagazine. Both are sponsored by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press. The site provides current news about Shakespeare studies and includes numerous articles from the magazine. A teaching resource is available to those with a subscription:
- keywords: articles, online, teaching, magazine
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- Shakespeare Online
- http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html
- 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:
- keywords: performance, sonnets, essays, biography
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2007-05-04
- Shakespeare Orange County
- http://www1.chapman.edu/comm/td/soc/
- Orange, California. The website for Shakespeare Orange County lists their current productions, has a few images from their previous plays, and has an number of related links to other Shakespeare companies and sites:
- keywords: performances, california
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-10-25

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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Shakespeare Santa Cruz
- http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org/
- Santa Cruz, California. Some photographs from recent performances can be found on the Shakespeare Santa Cruz website:
- keywords: performances, production, company, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Shakespeare Searched
- http://shakespeare.clusty.com/
- Shakespeare Searched provides quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets:
- keywords: quotations, teaching, text, quotes, quotation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Searching for quotations
- valid as of 2006-11-29
- Shakespeare Stack Project
- http://members.tripod.com/Mark_Zimmermann/Shakespeare/ShakespeareStacks.html
- Mark Zimmermann'sShakespeare Stack Projectprovides Macintosh users with public domain works of Shakespeare in binhex self-extracting archives; the texts are available here, in the now rather dated HyperCard format:
- keywords: macintosh
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare Teacher
- http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/
- Although not exclusively about Shakespeare, this blog takes up interesting issues and offers a weekly Shakespeare anagram for fun:
- keywords: blog, anagram
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01
- Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/
- Stirling, Grant. "Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock." February 1997. An introductory site that explores anti-semitism in the Elizabethan era and offers some images of Shylock performed in different periods:
- keywords: shylock, merchant, mv, venice, anti-semetism, elizabethan, jew
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare and His Critics
- http://shakespearean.org.uk/
- Thomas Larque's site,Shakespeare and His Critics, provides a growing collection of 18th- and 19th-century documents relating to Shakespeare and his works:
- keywords: collection
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare and Religion in Reformation and Post-Reformation England
- http://www2.bc.edu/~taylor/shakes.html
- The Shakespeare and Reformation Chronologylists significant historical events before, during, and after Shakespeare's life. The emphasis is on "Shakespeare's Catholic and Protestant contexts":
- keywords: catholic, england, historical, life, reformation, religion
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#Manly
- Bohnert, Michael. "Manly and Unmanly Masks: The Ironies of Britomart's Quest in Book V ofThe Faerie Queene"SRASP(1996). This paper can be viewed at:
- keywords: edmund, spenser, faerie, queene
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Spenser, Edmund
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1998.html
- Hobbins, Daniel.The Sanctification of the Tudor Dynasty in Berard Andrè's "Vita Regis Henrici Septimi".SRASP. (1998). Exerpt: "it seems high time to reconsider the value of Andre'sVita, not as a revelation of history 'as it actually happened,' but as a humanist artifact, a very deliberately fashioned object..." View the full-text of this document at:
- keywords: history, papers, tudor
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Tudor
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers (SRASP)is an electronic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and culture. This site provides the best papers from the yearly West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference from 1999 to 2004:
- keywords: association, culture, electronic, index, journal, papers, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Soceity of West Virginia
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#Eternal
- Incorvati, Rick. "Eternal Form and Timely Variations in Spenser'sEpithalamion"SRASP(1996). This paper can be viewed at:
- keywords: edmund, spenser, epithalamion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Spenser, Edmund
- valid as of 2005-09-13

Shakespeare and The Globe: Then and Now- http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html
- Encyclopedia Britannica'sShakespeare and The Globe: Then and Nowsite takes an extensive look at the life and times of Shakespeare. The site contains more than 500 articles and essays, which are illustrated with more than 200 photographs, drawings, and maps, as well as several dozen audio and video recordings:
- keywords: drawings, essays, maps, photographs, theater, encyclopedia
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
Shakespeare and the Players- http://shakespeare.emory.edu/players_index.cfm
- Shakespeare and the Playersis a fascinating survey through postcards of the many now unfamiliar English and American actors who played Shakespeare's characters for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences:
- keywords: english, american, actors, postcards, players
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shakespeare and the Politics of Community
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/wardshak.html
- Ward, Ian. "Shakespeare and the Politics of Community."Early Modern Literary Studies4.3 (January 1999): 2.1-45. Ward investigates the idea of narrative community and suggests its import for contemporary legal and political theory:
- keywords: community, politics, law, identity
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare and the Uses of Power
- http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20073
- Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare and the Uses of Power."The New York Review of Books.(12 April 2007): 54.6. Greenblatt explores morality, ethics and violence in Shakespeare's power hungry leaders, such as Macbeth, Claudius, Richard III, and Julius Caesar. "In Shakespeare no character with a clear moral vision has a will to power and, conversely, no character with a strong desire to rule over others has an ethically adequate object."
- keywords: Greenblatt, Clinton, power, macbeth, morality, kingship
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2007-04-02
- Shakespeare by Mail
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/LEARNING%20BY_EMAIL.txt
- Loughlin, Thomas W. "Shakespeare by Mail: An Experience in Distance Learning Using Electronic Mail" SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Loughlin describes his use of e-mail to encourage his students' research skills:
- keywords: archive, electronic, computers, email
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Shakespeare by the Sea
- http://www.shakespearebythesea.ca/
- Halifax, Nova Scotia. Explore the website for the Shakespeare by the Sea Theatre Company:
- keywords: company, performance, theatre, halifax, nova scotia, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-21
Shakespeare in American Communities- http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Produced by Arts Midwest,The Shakespeare in American Communitieswebsite contains twenty-two complete texts of Shakespeare's works, some which include a synopsis, educational materials with lesson plans available as PDFs, and a section on Shakespeare's life. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the site includes a number of links to prominent American Shakespeare companies. However, the site's academic materials seem to be influenced by a distinct anti-Stratfordian bias:
- keywords: america, community
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
Shakespeare in Asia- http://sia.stanford.edu/
- A team of Stanford students and faculty has compiled an archive of links for international Shakespeare research and performance. There is also a photo gallery where you can view images from Shakespeare productions in Asia:
- keywords: performance, production, asia, international, foreign
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Asia
- valid as of 2007-02-05
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Shakespeare on Film & Video: Books in the UC Berkeley Library
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/ShakespeareBib.html
- Investigate Shakespeare film bibliography from the Library of the University of California, Berkeley:
- keywords: bibliography, film, library, video
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- Shakespeare's Globe Center (USA) Center for Globe Research
- http://www.sgc.umd.edu/
- 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:
- keywords: globe, theater, america, building
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > The Globe
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London- http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/
- The official site of the modern Globe Theatre in London:
- keywords: globe, london, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > The Globe
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento sources forA Midsummer Night's Dream
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/ITALIAN%20DREAM.txt
- Leslie, Robert W. "Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento Sources forA Midsummer Night's Dream." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Leslie argues that not only is the setting ofA Midsummer Night's Dreamlargely Italian, but the plot is also influenced by Italian sources:
- keywords: italian, italy, MND, midsummer night's dream, source
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare's Pacifism
- http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/pacifism.html
- Marx, Steven. "Shakespeare's Pacifism."Renaissance Quarterly45.1 (1992): 49-95. Marx discusses the peaceful and militarist elements of Shakespeare's drama:
- keywords: renaissance, militant, pacifist, war
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare's Poems
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=poems&PagePosition=1
- Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare, gent..London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640:
- keywords: london, poem
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Shakespeare's Staging- http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/
- 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:
- keywords: images, opinion, perform, performance, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- Shakespeare'sEdward III
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1998.html#Shakespeare's%20Edward
- Godshalk, W. L. "Shakespeare'sEdward III."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)21 (1998). Godshalk attempts to date, ascribe authorship, and read King Edward's character in terms of Sonnet 94:
- keywords: authorship, date, Edw, edward, king, sonnet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Edward III
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Shakespeare.ch
- http://www.shakespeare.ch
- Created by Sonia Marino and Tanja Walser, Shakespeare.ch includes a database of Shakespeare performances in Switzerland. Also included are links to sites with information on Elizabethan England, Shakespeare's life, and research resources. You can also play a Shakespeare memory game or send a virtual greeting card:
- keywords: performance, switzerland, german, international
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Switzerland
- valid as of 2007-02-05
Shakespeare: A Magazine for Teachers and Enthusiasts- http://shakespearemag.com
- Shakespearemag.comis an online support for theShakespearemagazine sponsored by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press. The site provides news on Shakespeare studies, includes numerous articles from the magazine, and offers a teaching resource for those with a subscription. The teaching resource articles provide direction for Shakespeare lesson plans:
- keywords: articles, online, teaching, magazine
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Shakespearean Poetry Search
- http://quarles.unbc.ca/shakescan/
- The University of Northern British Columbia offers this useful searchable database of Shakespeare's poetry:
- keywords: british, database, poetry
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Searching for quotations
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century- http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/index.html
- 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:
- keywords: collection, historical, seventeenth, prompt-book
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shakespearean World--Trondheim Style
- http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/shakespeare/index.htm
- TheUniversity of Trondheim's site in Norway provides information on their various Shakespeare courses:
- keywords: course, norway, university, trondheim
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Short Clips from 2 Film Adaptations of William Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet
- http://www.stanford.edu/~kbmiller/rnjmovies.htm
- A table-format comparison between Baz Lurhmann's 1998 and Franco Zeferelli's 1968 productionRomeo and Julietis available at:
- keywords: film, rom, romeo and juliet, movie, lurhmann, zeferelli, dicaprio, danes, whiting, hussey
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
- http://www.shrewfaire.com/
- Shrewsbury Renaissance Faireis an "interactive living history village" in Kings Valley, Oregon. The site includes a number of links to Renaissance and Medieval sites, as well as a history portion that offers lessons and tutorials:
- keywords: renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Shylock Is Us
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-2.txt
- Schneider, Ben Ross. "Shylock Is Us." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A reductionist view ofThe Merchant of Venicein which racial and sexual interpretations have been put aside in an attempt to redeem the reputations of the main Christian characters:
- keywords: antonio, bassanio, christians, MV, merchant of venice, portia, shylock
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress
- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
- This site, created by Greg Lindahl, is a work in progress dedicated to pre-1600 English ballads:
- keywords: ballad, music, sixteenth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Smith's Examination of Usury
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=smith_usury&PagePosition=1
- Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.The examination of usury. A sermon preached in the city of London, by the learned and reverend divine Henry Smith. Boston? Re-printed and sold by the booksellers, 1751. View images of this text at theFurness Collection:
- keywords: christianity, london, religion, ursury
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
- http://www.sca.org/
- TheSociety for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA)is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history. They maintain several useful pages on social history of Medieval and Renaissance life. You will have to sort out the sites that offer information from those that encourage membership. View this information at:
- keywords: anachronism, history, international, life, medieval, social
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Soulpepper Theatre
- http://www.soulpepper.ca/
- Toronto, Ontario. Investigate the Soulpepper Theatre Company website and learn more about its move into the Young Centre for Performing Arts:
- keywords: company, young centre, theatre, toronto, ontario, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
Speak the Speech- http://www.speak-the-speech.com/
- Founded by Peter Pressman, Speak the Speech is a small organization in Portland, Oregon, working to freely distribute engaging audio presentations of all of Shakespeare's plays to as wide an audience as possible via the internet and other electronic media:
- keywords: audio, sound, performance, company, speech
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2007-07-23
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- http://plato.stanford.edu/
- TheStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyis part of a larger project to develop the idea of a dynamic encyclopedia that is authoritative (refereed). It is a work in progress, so the philosopher of your choice may not yet have an entry:
- keywords: philosophy, encyclopedia
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Encyclopedias
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Steven Marx's "Shakespeare in Love" page
- http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/Shak_inLove/SM_Sh_in_Love.html
- Steven Marx has developed a small site devoted to the wonderful filmShakespeare in Love. The site contains essays, lecture notes, and study guides on the film:
- keywords: film, marx, shakespeare in love, movie
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2006-06-16
- Stratford-upon-Avon: Birthplace of Shakespeare
- http://www.stratford.co.uk/index.asp
- TheWilliam Shakespeare Properties, is a site maintained by theShakespeare Birthplace Trust. Links are made within frames from the Properties site, so this site can be confusing to navigate:
- keywords: birthplace, stratford, william
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Stratford-upon-Avon: William Shakespeare
- http://www.stratford.co.uk/shakespeare.asp
- InfoWeb'sStratford-upon-Avonprovides an account of Shakespeare's life with a picture of his birthplace:
- keywords: birthplace, life, stratford
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Student Plagiarism in an Online World
- http://www.prism-magazine.org/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm
- Ryan, Julie J. C. H. "Student Plagiarism in an Online World" is published byAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Prism Magazine8.4 (Dec. 1998). A look at plagiarism with a focus on online technology, offering tips and helpful links for detecting plagiarism:
- keywords: education, online, plagiarism
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Surfing for Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature on the Web
- http://surfing-for-shakespeare.webs.com/
- Surfing for Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature on the Web includes links to literature, online texts, authors, magazines, sources and documents, references, and more. The site is maintained by Carlo M. Bajetta from the Université de la Vallée d'Aoste.
- keywords: english, resources, links
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- TITUS the movie
- http://www.foxsearchlight.com/titus/
- Fox Searchlight's official site forTitus(Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cummings, Colm Feore). Requires Flash plug-in that can be downloaded through a link on this site:
- keywords: anthony, hopkins, titus andronicus, titus, film, movie
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2009-05-01
- Taming of the Shrew : Quarto 1
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=shrew&PagePosition=1
- A wittie and pleasant comedie called the taming of the shrew : as it was acted by His Maiesties seruants at the Blacke Friers and the Globe. London : Printed by W.S. for I. Smethwicke,1631. (Taming of the Shrew):
- keywords: globe, london, taming, shr, shrew, black friars
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Tate's Lear
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=lear_tate&PagePosition=1
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.The History ofKing Lear: Acted at the Duke's Theatre. London: Printed for E. Flesher, 1681. This text is made available by the University of Pennsylvania:
- keywords: history, king, lear, lr, london, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/AGAINST%20THEGRAIN.txt
- Strickland, Ron. "Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A shorter version was published inTeaching Shakespeare Today. Eds. James Davis and Ronald E. Salmone. Urbana: Illinois State UP, 1993: 168-78. Strickland examines the ways in which Shakespeare is presented in universities and notes the cultural importance of Shakespeare for the university student:
- keywords: archive, teaching
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/FAMILY%20ROMANCE.txt
- Waller, Gary. "Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Waller examines the idea of family inThe Winter's Taleusing Freudian theory:
- keywords: archive, teaching, freud, family, winter's tale
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Templeman Library Theatre Collections
- http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/Development%20Area/theatre.htm
- 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:
- keywords: actors, melville, performance, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- Texas A&M University Department of English: World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- http://www-english.tamu.edu/wsb/
- The World Shakespeare Bibliographyis available at this site. It can only be accessed by subscription, but the Bibliography is an essential tool for serious researchers, and the rates of subscription are unusually reasonable:
- keywords: bibliography, english
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Texas Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.texasshakespeare.com/
- Kilgore, Texas. Locate current productions, descriptions of former productions, and information about educational workshops and camps, as well as details about the company on the Texas Shakespeare Festival website:
- keywords: education, festival, workshops
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-05-23
The 1559 Book of Common Prayer- http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1559/BCP_1559.htm
- The Elizabethan Prayer Book(1556) is available fromThe Society of Archbishop Justus. This site provides an attractive electronic version, includes a brief introduction, and also presents a Latin translation of the text:
- keywords: religion, latin, prayer, anglican, christianity
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church
- valid as of 2005-09-15
The Aberdeen Bestiary Project - University of Aberdeen- http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti
- The Aberdeen Bestiary Project, designed by Michael Arnott and Iain Beavan of the University of Aberdeen, is a well-documented site with wonderful illustrations, definitions, translations and transcriptions on the topics of bestiary and codicology. Access these materials at:
- keywords: bestiary
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The African-American Shakespeare Company
- http://www.african-americanshakes.org/
- San Francisco, California. The African-American Shakespeare Company is the only company in the United States to stage Shakespeare with all African-American cast and from the unique perspective of this cultural group:
- keywords: company, african-american, culture, performances
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Age of King Charles V
- http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm
- The Bibliotheque Nationale de Francepresents "The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)"; access over 1,000 illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts at this site:
- keywords: king, charles
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History
- valid as of 2005-09-14
The Alchemy Web Site- http://www.levity.com/alchemy/index.html
- The Alchemy Web Sitecontains a virtual library with images, articles, study courses, and more. In addition to English articles, it includes articles in French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, German, Russian, Portuguese, and even one document in Czech. Visit this wonderfully comprehensive site at:
- keywords: alchemy, articles, language, french, italian, spanish, japanese, german, russian, portuguese, czech
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Early sciences
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Art of Angling
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/barker1.html
- Barker's Delight, or the Art of Anglingis available atRenascence Editions. Barker's text is amusing, however some of his recommendations would bring you to the attention of the game warden, so caveat emptor:
- keywords: angling, art, barker
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Barker, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Arte of English Poesie
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PutPoes.html
- The Arte of English Poesieby George Puttenham is available through theElectronic Text Centerat the University of Virginia:
- keywords: george, puttenham, english, poesie
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Puttenham, George
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Austin Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.austinshakespeare.org/
- Austin, Texas. The website of the Austin Shakespeare Festival offers photographs, press releases, synopses, and reviews of their previous productions:
- keywords: festival, images, press release, reviews
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-17
- The Australian Shakespeare Company
- http://www.australianshakespearecompany.com.au/
- Melbourne, Australia. Read reviews of the ASC's past productions, performed indoors and outdoors, under the section entitled "About the ASC" and glimspe some images from their performances by downloading the promotional PDF in their "Photo Gallery":
- keywords: australia, company
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Australia
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- The BBCTwelfth Night: Relationships Revealed
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/12thnightfilm.html
- Locket, Joseph. "The BBCTwelfth Night: Relationships Revealed."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Ed. Joseph Locket. Locket examines some of the performances choices made in the 1996 BBC production ofTwelfth Night:
- keywords: bbc, film, performance, twelfth night, TN
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Twelfth Night
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- The Bard Blog
- http://www.bardblog.com/
- This is an excellent blog with the specific mission of providing entertaining Shakespearean scholarship:
- keywords: blog
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01

The Bell Shakespeare Company- http://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/
- The Bell Shakespeare Company website, although very extensive, is Flash-based and will only operate on a modern browser. Browse synopses, images of their plays, and excellent records of their earlier productions in their "Resources" section:
- keywords: australia, company
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Australia
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- The Ben Jonson Journal
- http://www.geocities.com/benjonsonjournal/benjonsonjournal.htm
- The Ben Jonson Journaloffers literary contexts in the age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles:
- keywords: elizabeth, james, jonson, journal
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Birth of Merlin
- http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rowley.htm
- The Birth of Merlin or the Child Hath Found his Fatheris made available by Camelot Project at the University of Rochester. Alan Lupack, Director of the Robbins Library, and Barbara Tepa Lupack have created a resource for Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and more:
- keywords: rowley, william, merlin, camelot, authur, performances, drama
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Rowley, William
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- The Book of the Courtier
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html
- Sir Thomas Hoby's 1561 translation of Baldessare Castiglione'sBook of the Courtieris available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: hoby, baldessare, castiglione, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Castiglione, Baldessare
- valid as of 2005-09-13
The British Library - The world's knowledge- http://www.bl.uk/
- The website forThe British Libraryin London can be accessed at:
- keywords: british, library, london
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Libraries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Canterbury Tales
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public
- Canterbury Talesis available at the University of Virginia Library'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: chaucer, canterbury, middle, ME, tales
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Chaucer
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Castle of Perseverance--A modernization
- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajohnsto/cascomp.html
- The Castle of Perseverancec. 1400 has been modernized by Alexandra F. Johnston of the University of Toronto. Visit this text:
- keywords: castle, perseverance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15

The Catholic Encyclopedia- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html
- The Catholic Encyclopediais a complete and thorough documentation of all things pertaining to the Catholic religion:
- keywords: catholic, encyclopedia, religion, christianity
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > Religion
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Catholic Encyclopedia: Suppression of English Monasteries Under Henry VIII
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm
- Part of theCatholic Encyclopedia, "The Suppression of the Monasteries" is a Catholic discussion of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in England during the Reformation. View this information at:
- keywords: H8, catholic, encyclopedia, england, reformation, henry, monasteries
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html
- Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley'sThe Changelingis available at this site maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia:
- keywords: middleton, william, thomas, rowley, chageling
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas and William Rowley
- valid as of 2005-08-02

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs- http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/
- The Cleveland Press, Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982provides a impressive collection of photographs of Shakespeare film, stage, opera, ballet, and television productions:
- keywords: photographs, photos, productions
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.cleveshakes.org/
- Cleveland, Ohio. The website for the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival houses some interesting archives from earlier seasons, including photos:
- keywords: festival, cleveland, ohio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- The Collected Works of Shakespeare
- http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/
- The standard public domain texts, but with an elegant search interface devised by Matty Farrow, of the University of Sydney:
- keywords: none
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2005-09-13
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival- http://www.coloradoshakes.org/
- Boulder, Colorado. Find synopses, dramaturgical notes, production notes, and photographs from past performances on the Colorado Shakesperae Festival's colorful and impressive website. Operating for 49 years, the festival offers interesting educational programs and features on plays being performed:
- keywords: festivals, archives, performances, colorado
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html
- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustusis available through thePerseus Projectat Tufts University. This hypertext edition allows the reader to compare the two very different early texts of the play:
- keywords: edition, history, marlowe, christopher, faustus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2005-09-13
The Complete Works of Marlowe- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html
- The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Editionis available through thePerseus Projectat Tufts University:
- keywords: edition, electronic, marlowe, perseus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeareis the work of Jeremy Hilton at MIT; this site has a useful glossary as well as a search form that links directly to the text:
- keywords: glossary
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Costume Page - Costume History
- http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html
- The Costume Page: Costuming Resource Onlineis maintained by Julie Zetterberg. Portions of this site are devoted to both Renaissance and Elizabethan fashions, with the later time period have an exceptional amount of material. The site a is a bit slow to load but does provide excellent coverage of historical eras:
- keywords: costume, history
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Costume
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/arcadia1.html
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadiais available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: sidney, countess, pembroke, arcadia
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-29
- The Dancing Master
- http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/playford/index.html
- Playford, John.The Dancing Master:Or, plain and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance, to be play'd on the Treble Violin. Check out the list of traditional dances and their execution at:
- keywords: dance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- The Early English Music Midi Page
- http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/4162/music.htm
- The Early English Music Roomcontains MIDI files of Renaissance music:
- keywords: music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Edmund Spenser Home Page
- http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm
- The Edmund Spenser Home Pageoffers Spenser texts and outside links, as well as subscription information for the Spenser-L (Email) Discussion List and an archive. View this site at:
- keywords: archive, edmund, spenser
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Spenser, Edmund
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Elizabethan Theatre
- http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/
- This site contains a lecture by Professor Hilda D. Speare on the topic of Elizabethan Theatre:
- keywords: theater, elizabethan, speare
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- The End of Absolutism
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/cefalu.htm
- Cefalu, Paul. "'The End of Absolutism': Shakespeare'sCoriolanusand the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State."Renaissance Forum4.2 (2000). Cefalu argues against what he considers "transitionalist and capitalist misreadings ofCoriolanus." He attempts to reinterpret the play based on recent historical work on the nature of the Tudor-Stuart state:
- keywords: coriolanus, state, government, class, politics, capitalism, tudor, jacobean
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Coriolanus
- valid as of 2007-01-10
- The Erasmus Text Project
- http://smith2.sewanee.edu/erasmus/etp.html
- The Erasmus Text Projectstrives to make the texts of Desiderius Erasmus available in electronic format. Creator Chris Cudabac specifically gives priority to those works that are less available in print. Visit this site at:
- keywords: erasmus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Erasmus
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Faerie Queene
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.html
- The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser, is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: renascence, faerie, queene
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Spenser, Edmund
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Forest of Rhetoric
- http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
- Forest of Rhetoricis supported by the Brigham Young University and created by Gideon O. Burton, an Assistant Professor in Early British Literature. The site offers detailed descriptions of all rhetorical devices, as well as specific rhetorical concepts, and provides users with an extensive index of terms. Visit this through site at:
- keywords: rhetorical, terminology, description, terms, figures, speech
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Rhetoric
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- The Frank Furness Collection
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/
- The Frank Furness Collectionat the University of Pennsylvania Library includes the text of various Shakespeare plays as well as graphic examples of the originals; the site also has other relevant Renaissance texts. This site requires flash plug-in:
- keywords: collection, library, renaissance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage- http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
- Harvard University has an extensive site on Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works:
- keywords: geoffrey, chaucer, life
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Chaucer
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The GermanHamlet
- http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/bruder~1.htm#I.iia
- Anonymous.De Brudermord (Fratricide Punished): Tragoedia Der bestrafte Brudermord oder PrinzHamletaus Dannemark. This German play, ambiguously related toHamlet, is available in translation from Clifford Stetner of Columbia University:
- keywords: Ham, hamlet, german
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Anonymous
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Great River Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.grsf.org/
- Winona, Minnesota. The Great River Shakespeare Festival's website offers a small but intriguing selection of images from previous seasons and from the festival itself. Enter this site at:
- keywords: minnesota, festival, images
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- The Guitar Pre-1650
- http://www.whitetreeaz.com/guitar1650/
- The Guitar Pre 1650, a site authored by W.J. Bethancourt, contains a history of early guitars:
- keywords: guitar, music
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Heroic Age
- http://www.heroicage.org/
- The Heroic Agefocuses on North-western Europe during the early medieval period (from the late 4th through 11th centuries). They seek to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period:
- keywords: journal, medieval
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Journals
- valid as of 2005-09-14
The History of Printing- http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html
- Jones, Bruce.Manuscipts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World. This is a fine illustrated history of printing in the Renaissance:
- keywords: books, illustrated, maps, printing
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Printing in the Renaissance
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Honest Whore, Part One, by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/1hw.html
- Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton.The Honest Whore, Part One, is available at this site maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia:
- keywords: dekker, honest, middleton, thomas, whore
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Dekker, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
- http://www.huntington.org/
- The Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardensof San Marino, California can be accessed at:
- keywords: art, library
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Libraries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Illinois Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.thefestival.org/
- Bloomington, Illinois. Supported by Illinois State University, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival gives brief overviews for those productions being preformed:
- keywords: articles, festival, illinois, performance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
The Institute of Outdoor Drama- http://www.unc.edu/depts/outdoor/
- The Institute of Outdoor Drama website lists outdoor historical and religious dramas as well as production information for over sixty outdoor Shakespeare festivals. It also has a locator map (so you know where to go...approximately) as well as links to each theatre's website (should they have one):
- keywords: drama, historical, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- The Internet Classics Archive
- http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/
- Complete works are available atThe Internet Classics Archive. Select Euripides from the list on the left-hand frame:
- keywords: greek, euripides
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Euripides
- valid as of 2005-08-02
- The Internet Classics Archive
- http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/
- Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romansis available atThe Internet Classics Archive. This translation is by John Dryden rather than by Sir Thomas North, whose edition Shakespeare knew well. Click on Plutarch in the left frame, then on the name of the figure whose biography you seek:
- keywords: greek, roman, dryden, plutarch
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Plutarch
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Internet Classics Archive | Metaphysics by Aristotle
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.html
- Metaphysicsas translated by W. D. Ross is available atThe Internet Classics Archive:
- keywords: metaphysics, archive, aristotle
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
- Nicomachean Ethicsas translated by W.D. Ross is available atThe Internet Classics Archive:
- keywords: archive, aristotle, nicomachean
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Internet Classics Archive | Poetics by Aristotle
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html
- Poeticsas translated by S. H. Butcher is available atThe Internet Classics Archive:
- keywords: archive, aristotle, poetics
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Internet Classics Archive | Rhetoric by Aristotle
- http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
- Rhetoricas translated by W. R. Roberts is available atThe Internet Classics Archive:
- keywords: archive, aristotle, rhetoric
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle
- valid as of 2005-09-15
The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature- http://classics.mit.edu/
- The Internet Classics Archiveat MIT has 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation:
- keywords: classic, archive, greek, roman
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- http://www.imdb.com
- The Internet Movie Databaseprovides information on most movies, including those film adaptations and performances of Shakespeare's plays:
- keywords: database, film, movie
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09

The Internet Renaissance Band- http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic
- Curtis Clarke's pageThe Internet Renaissance Bandpresents a number of English country dances:
- keywords: english, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14
The Internet Renaissance Band - Renaissance Music- http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic/
- The Internet Renaissance Band, developed by Curtis Clark, offers a large collection of music from the Renaissance period on their site. Peruse their electronic stakes at:
- keywords: collection, music, Clark
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
The John Milton Reading Room- http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Emilton/
- The Milton Reading Roomwas designed by Thomas Luxton and Dartmouth College students. This site contains annotated texts of Milton's poetry and prose:
- keywords: john, milton, poetry, prose
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Milton, John
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Lady of May
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html
- The Lady of May, by Sir Philip Sidney, is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: renascence, lady, may, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-13
The Learning City, Key Stage 2 History - On Board the Mary Rose- http://www.maryrose.org/lcity/index.htm
- The Learning City: On Board the Mary Roseoffers a virtual tour of the 16th century ship as it might have been. A good narrative of King Henry VIII's quest to build up the English navy with excellent graphics can be viewed at:
- keywords: H8, ship, henry, king, mary, rose, navy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm
- Sohmer, Steve. "The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (1999): 2.1-17. Sohmer analyzes the dates inKing Learto provide evidence that the lunar calendar was one of Shakespeare's sources and suggests the possibility that the play was performed for King James I on December 26, 1606 as well as the significance of this date:
- keywords: calendar, date, early modern, james, king, Lr, lear
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- The Magic of M. M. Mahood'sShakespeare's Wordplay
- http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/laird61.htm
- Laird, David. "The Magic of M. M. Mahood'sShakespeare's Wordplay."Connotations6.1 (1996-1997). Laird uses Manhood's book as a jumping off point to explore the methods by which Shakespeare's word usage has been traditionally studied:
- keywords: connotations, wordplay
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
- http://www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk/
- 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:
- keywords: archive, images, performance, theater, uk
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- The Masque of Blacknesse and Masque of Beauty
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/jonson1.html
- Ben Jonson's worksMasque of BlacknesseandMasque of Beautyare available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: beauty, blackness, jonson, masque
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Jonson, Ben
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Misogyny of Richard III in More'sHistory of King Richard IIIand Shakespeare'sTragedy of King Richard the Third
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORESHAK%20RICHARD3.txt
- Lakowski, Ramuald I. "The Misogyny of Richard III in More'sHistory of King Richard IIIand Shakespeare'sTragedy of King Richard the Third." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Lakowski explores Shakespeare's interpretation of More's account of King Richard III's misogyny:
- keywords: history, king, misogyny, R3, richard, sources, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- The Mixture of "High" and "Low" Culture inHamletI,i: a Close Reading
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/HIGH_LOW%20CULTURE.txt
- Hill, Harry. "The Mixture of 'High' and 'Low' Culture inHamletI,i: A Close Reading." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Hill argues that popular culture is not folk culture but low culture elevated to high ; he examinesHamlet1.1 to provide examples of Shakespeare's ability to elevate low culture by reproducing the way people speak and think in metaphor and verbal texture.
- keywords: culture, Ham, hamlet, low, popular
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-07

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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
The Nameless Shakespeare- http://www.library.northwestern.edu/shakespeare
- Joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, the Northwestern University Library, and NU-IT Academic Technologies that provides fully lemmatised texts (those that record variant forms of the same word) encoded in such a way as to allow linguistic, frequency, and proximity searches particularly useful for stylistic analysis. This site requires WordHoard - a free application available to download here:
- keywords: texts, concordance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2006-02-20
- The National Theatre Homepage
- http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/
- London, England. The "Education" section on the National Theatre website provides Adobe Acrobat files that introduce the plays being performed:
- keywords: education, england, theater, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The New Testament (Rheims 1582)
- http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rheims/
- TheHumanities Text Initiativeof the University of Michigan includes a searchable edition of the Rheims Bible of 1582, prepared by Jeffery Triggs:
- keywords: bible, rheims, religion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Newberry Library
- http://www.newberry.org/
- The Newberry Libraryof Chicago can be located at:
- keywords: library
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources > Libraries
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Noble Spanish Soldier
- http://www.pricejb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Nobel%20Spanish%20Soldier/CONTENTS.htm
- John Price, an MA graduate from the Univeristy College, Worchester, UK, has made available a modern-spelling edition of theThe Noble Spanish Soldier:
- keywords: dekker, spanish, soldier, thomas
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Dekker, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-10-07

The Norton Anthology of English Literature- http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature's (NEAL) siteNorton Topics Onlineprovides online documents that assist in contextualizing texts from the Renaissance as well as the Middle Ages, the Restoration, the Romantic period, the Victorian age and the twentieth century. An all-round excellent source, this site provides many contemporary materials, carefully edited and annotated:
- keywords: english, norton, anthology, texts, history
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Old Globe
- http://www.theoldglobe.org/
- San Diego, California. The Old Globe website describes their upcoming plays for this year's Shakespeare Festival and lists the cast for their previous productions:
- keywords: cast, performances, theater, company
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-14
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival - Theatre in Ashland- http://www.orshakes.org/
- Ashland, Oregon. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's website displays pictures, and some movie clips, from past and current productions, and provides information about the company's educational programs:
- keywords: education, festival, reviews
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900
- http://www.bartleby.com/101/
- The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch:
- keywords: english, oxford, verse
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
The Oxford Text Archive- http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
- The Oxford Text Archiveis an excellent online resource that houses many resources on Literature and Linguistics; the OTA sells ASCII, old-spelling versions of original editions of Shakespeare's works:
- keywords: archive, online, oxford
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Collections
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Perdita Project
- http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita/
- The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations, maintained by Jill Seal Millman of the University of Warwick, is located at:
- keywords: early, modern, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14
The Perseus Digital Library- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
- The Perseus Digital Libraryfrom Tufts University "is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language." The library's materials cover many periods and include such resources as ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogues, and secondary essays. View the contents of this site at:
- keywords: ancient, art, essays, illustrated, library, maps, perseus, translations
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Phoenix Nest
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/phoenix.html#14_ThepraiseofVirginitie
- The Phoenix Nest(1593) is available atRenascence Editions:
- keywords: phoenix, nest, anonymous, poetry, quatrain
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > R. S. of the Inner Temple
- valid as of 2005-09-29
The Place 2 Be: Literature- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4081/Literature.html
- This site contains a number of essays on Shakespeare's sonnets, one of which argues that the so-called "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets was in fact a black prostitute. It is difficult to choose what you are going to read as one navigates by clicking on the pictures provided:
- keywords: essays, poems, sonnets, dark lady
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > The poems
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2007-01-05
The Plays of Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/middhome.html
- This award-winning site, maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia, contains annotated (HTML) versions of the plays of Thomas Middleton:
- keywords: thomas, middleton
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13

The Plays of William Shakespeare ~ Presented by The Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)- http://www.theplays.org/
- The Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)has a collection of the plays of William Shakespeare. Each play has its own search engine, concordance, quotes, and other information:
- keywords: collection, electronic, quotes, plays
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Modern texts of the complete canon
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Prodigal Daughter Project
- http://www.valpo.edu/home/staff/kinnes/closet/mariamcontentspg.html
- A biography of Elizabeth Cary and a discussion of her playThe Tragedy of Miriamare available throughThe Prodigal Daughter Project:
- keywords: daughter, elizabeth, tragedy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Cary, Elizabeth
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Rebel Shakespeare Company
- http://www.rebelshakespeare.org/index.html
- Offering actors of all ages an opportunity to explore Shakespeare, The Rebel Shakespeare Company produces an unique Shakespeare experience. The website offers information about the company, schedules and summer camp registration. The website also provides extensive information about alumni and photographs of previous performances:
- keywords: company, experience, photographs
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2009-05-01
The Renaissance: Authors and texts -- Shakespeare's sources- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/Authors_and_texts.html
- See Shakespeare's sosurces for the history plays at theInternet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: history, source
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Holinshed, Raphael
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Resurgence Theatre Company
- http://www.resurgence.on.ca/
- Newmarket, Ontario. The Resurgence Theatre Company's mandate is "to resurge the classics and ignite new and contemporary works while utilizing the surging energy of young and established artists alike." This site includes photos of earlier productions:
- keywords: company, theater, canada, newmarket, ontario, resurgence
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- The Revenger's Tragedy, by Thomas Middleton
- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/reven.html
- Thomas Middleton'sThe Revenger's Tragedy, which is also attributed to Tourneur, is available at this site maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia:
- keywords: thomas, middleton, tourneur, tragedy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas, or Cyril Tourneur
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Richmond Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.richmondshakespeare.com
- Richmond, Virginia. Reviews from past performances can be found on the Richmond Shakespeare Festival website, performed by the Encore! Theatre Company:
- keywords: festival, richmond, virginia
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The River City Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.rivercityshakespeare.com/
- Edmonton, Alberta. The Free Will Players are founded by the University of Alberta theatre graduates and annually present the River City Shakespeare Festival. Find productions from current and past seasons and information about school programs and the company's history on their website:
- keywords: education, festival, university, edmonton, alberta, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- The Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/ROLE%20CLOWN.txt
- Culwell, Lori, M. "The Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Culwell takes a historical look at the clown in the early modern theater:
- keywords: theatre, clown, historical
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)- http://www.rsc.org.uk/
- Warwickshire, England. The Royal Shakespeare Company website contains a searchable database of photographs, paintings, exhibitions, costumes and prompt-books from the RSC under the link for "Beyond Shakespeare". This site includes an informative overview of Shakespeare:
- keywords: company, database, photographs, england
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Great Britain
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
- http://www.sfshakes.org
- San Francisco, California. Find director's notes, comments on the soundtrack, and a few performance stills at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's website:
- keywords: director's notes, festival
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The Scholemaster
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ascham1.htm
- TheRenascence Editionssite includes Roger Ascham'sThe Scholemaster(books 1-2):
- keywords: scholemaster, renascence
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Ascham, Roger
- valid as of 2005-09-12

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Website- http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trustmaintains an informative site. Biographical information is provided as well as links to Shakespeare productions and criticism:
- keywords: biographical, birthplace, criticism
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- The Shakespeare Blog
- http://www.enotes.com/blogs/shakespeare/
- This blog features issues concerned with Shakespeare in the modern world. The posts are interesting and fun:
- keywords: blog
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01
- The Shakespeare First Folio
- http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/
- The First Folio (1623) and several early quartos available at the University of Virginia:
- keywords: first, folio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling
- valid as of 2007-01-16
- The Shakespeare First Folio
- http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/
- The First Folio (1623) and several early quartos available at the University of Virginia:
- keywords: first, folio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Shakespeare Geek Blog
- http://blog.shakespearegeek.com/
- This fantastic blog discuss various Shakespearean issues. The blog also features reviews of various Shakespeare media:
- keywords: blog, reviews
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Blogs
- valid as of 2009-05-01
- The Shakespeare Mystery | PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/index.html
- If your interested in the arguments concerning Shakespeare and authorship, check out the PBS debates on their siteThe Shakespeare Mystery: Who, in Fact, Was He?:
- keywords: authorship, pbs, debate
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Authorship
- valid as of 2005-09-12
The Shakespeare Revue- http://www.shakespeare-revue.com/index.htm
- The Shakespeare Revueis a well-designed site with many interesting features including reviews of recent Shakespeare performances, spotlights on Shakespearean actors, photographs, interviews, videos and more:
- keywords: actors, review, photographs
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
- http://www.ru.ac.za/static/institutes/shake/index.html
- The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa endeavours to assist people enjoy " themselves through theatrical and intellectual exploration focused on Shakespeare, with particular attention to his 'after-life' in Southern Africa":
- keywords: journal, after-life, publications, africa
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Associations
- The Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries
- http://shakespeare.let.uu.nl/sgnveng.htm
- The Shakespeare Society of the Low Countriesis a useful resource for scholars interested in Shakespeare studies in general, and in Dutch and Flemish contributions to Shakespeare scholarship, translations,and performances, in particular. Their journal,Foliohas selected articles online:
- keywords: dutch, flemish, performances, translations
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- The Shakespeare Theatre
- http://www.shakespearedc.org/
- Washington, DC. The Shakespeare Theatre website houses an impressive archive of photographs, synopses, production notes, essays describing the cultural context of plays, and critical reviews. Browse their photograph gallery and view images from productions as far back as 1986:
- keywords: program, synopsis, criticism
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- The Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html
- Holloway, Brian. "The Lute as Mediator in the English Renaissance."SRASP.(1997). Exerpt: "Not only does the lute figure discourse between the divine and the person; a related metaphor equates the lute with social discourse as well -- perhaps with Rhetoric itself..." View the full-text version of this article at:
- keywords: article, discourse, music, lute, rhetoric
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival
- http://www.shakespeareonthesaskatchewan.com/
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival homepage lists their upcoming productions, past productions, and offers staff information:
- keywords: festival, theater, saskatchewan, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The Source of Macbeth: Holinshed's Chronicles
- http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/macbeth/Holinshed/index.html
- Excerpts fromHolinshed's Chronicles, Shakespeare's principal source for Macbeth, can be located at Shakespeare Navigators, a site maintained by Philip Weller, Ph.D.
- keywords: Mac, holinshed, macbeth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Macbeth
- The Steel Glass & The Complaint of Philomene
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/steel/steel.html
- The Steele GlasandThe Complainte of Phylomeneby George Gascoigne Esquire, are available at Risa Bear'sRenascence Editions:
- keywords: gascoigne, george, glass, philomene, steel
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Gascoigne, George
- valid as of 2005-09-12
The Stratford Festival of Canada- http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
- Stratford, Ontario. Find play information, read blogs, and watch video interviews from the directors, and research tours, lectures and school activities, presented at the festivals four theaters, on the beautifully designed Stratford Festival website:
- keywords: canada, festival, stratford
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The Survey of London
- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=stow&PagePosition=1
- The Survey of Londonis available atThe Furness Library:
- keywords: london, survey
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Stow, John
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- The Taming of the ShrewPenguin Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82544_1_10,00.html
- Luther, Carol J. and Laura A. McCammon. "Teachers' Guide:The Taming of the Shrew: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: guide, Shr, shrew, teacher, teaching
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > The Taming of the Shrew
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- The TempestPenguin Classics Teachers' Guide
- http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82548_1_10,00.html
- McGlinn, James E. and Jeanne M. McGlinn. "Teachers' Guides:The Tempest: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
- keywords: guide, Tmp, tempest, teacher, teaching
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources > The Tempest
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- The Texts ofTroilus and Cressida
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/godsshak.html
- Godshalk, W.L. "The Texts ofTroilus and Cressida."Early Modern Literary Studies1.2 (1995): 2.1-54. Godshalk discusses the differences between the folio and quarto texts ofTroilus and Cressida, the strange mistakes in the folio, and what these differences and mistakes suggest about how the folio version was printed:
- keywords: folio, printing, quarto, text, Tro, troilus and cressida
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Troilus and Cressida
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- The Theatre of Apollo
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beaumont1.html
- Sir John Beaumont'sThe Theatre of Apollois available at theRenascence Editions:
- keywords: beaumont, john, renascence, theatre
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Beaumont, Sir John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Towneley Plays
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=AnoTown&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&part=0
- The Towneley Playsare available at the University of Virginia Library'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: townley, towneley
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Tragedie of Antonie.
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/antonie.html
- The Tragedie of Antonie, as translated by Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, can be found at theRenascence Editionssite:
- keywords: antonie, countess, renascence, tragedie
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Sidney, Mary (see also Wroth, Lady Mary)
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare'sTroilus and Cressida
- http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/troilus.html
- Oates, Joyce Carol. "The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare'sTroilus and Cressida."Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page. Ed. Randy Souther, 1999. Originally published as two separate essays inPhilological Quarterly45 (Spring, 1967) andShakespeare Quarterly16 (Spring, 1966). Oates explores Shakespeare's use of the tragic genre inTroilus and Cressida:
- keywords: convention, genre, tragedy, Tro, troilus and cressida
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Troilus and Cressida
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Tragicall Historie ofHamletPrince of Denmarke (1603 Quarto)
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaHaQ1.html
- The University of Virginia's transcription of the First Quarto forHamletis available at theirElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: Ham, hamlet, historie, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Tragicall Historie ofHamletPrince of Denmarke (1604 Quarto)
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaHaQ2.html
- The 1604 Second Quarto forHamletis available through theElectronic Text Centerat the University of Virginia:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, historie, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Upstart Crow Theatre Group
- http://www.upstartcrow.ca/
- Toronto, Ontario. The Upstart Crow Theatre Group offers some excellent archival materials on their site. Check out their amazingly creative Shakespeare Sports performances, complete with images dating from 1995:
- keywords: company, theatre, sports, toronto, ontario, canada, upstart
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-21
The Utah Shakespearean Festival- http://www.bard.org/
- Cedar City, Utah. The distinguished Utah Shakespearean Festival's website provides some good discussions of the plays on its "Educational Resources" page:
- keywords: festival, utah, cedar city
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA
- valid as of 2006-06-01
- The Works of Ben Jonson
- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbib.htm
- The Works of Ben Jonsonare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: jonson, ben, poetry, play
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Jonson, Ben
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Works of Christopher Marlowe
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlobib.htm
- The Works of Christopher Marloweare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: christopher, marlowe, hero, leander, shepard, passionate
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Elizabeth I
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabib.htm
- The Works of Elizabeth Iare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: elizabeth
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers > Elizabeth I, of England
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Works of George Gascoigne
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/gascbib.htm
- The Works of George Gascoigneare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: george, gascoigne
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Gascoigne, George
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/henrybib.htm
- The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surreyare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: earl, henry, howard, surrey
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Surrey, Earl of, Henry Howard
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Henry VIII
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tudorbib.htm
- The Works of Henry VIIIare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: h8, henry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Henry VIII, of England
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Works of John Donne
- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm
- The Works of John Donneare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: donne, john
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Donne, John
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- The Works of John Foxe
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/foxebib.htm
- The Works of John Foxare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: john, foxe
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Fox, John
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Works of Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/hookbib.htm
- The Works of Richard Hookerare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: hooker, richard
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Hooker, Richard
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The Works of Sir Philip Sidney
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidbib.htm
- The Works of Sir Philip Sidneyare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: philip, sidney
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Sidney, Sir Philip
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyattbib.htm
- The Works of Sir Thomas Wyattare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: sir, thomas, wyatt
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Wyatt, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/ralebib.htm
- The Works of Sir Walter Raleighare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: walter, ralegh, raleigh
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Ralegh, Sir Walter
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Thomas Campion
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/campbib.htm
- Campion, Thomas.The Works of Thomas Campionare available atLuminarium. Includes many MIDIs:
- keywords: music, campion
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Music
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- The Works of Thomas More
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/morebib.htm
- The Works of Thomas Moreare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: more
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Works of Thomas Nashe
- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nashebib.htm
- The Works of Thomas Nasheare available atLuminarium:
- keywords: nashe
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Nashe, Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=896
- The World Shakespeare Bibliography Onlineis made available by Texas A&M Unversity's Department of English through subscription only. The bibliography provides 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:
- keywords: article, bibliography, electronic, english
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- The York Plays
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=AnoYork&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&part=0
- The York Playsare available at the University of Virginia Library'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: york
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- The York Plays
- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/yorkplays/york.html
- A modernization of theYork Playsis available atREED:
- keywords: modernization, york
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Drama
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- The bremer shakespeare company
- http://www.shakespeare-company.com/
- The bsc has now staged 40 Shakespeare productions, all plays being presented in new translations, in addition to premiering many new contemporary works. The bsc has toured nationally and internationally (Finland, Poland, Austria, Estonia, Italy, England, Liechtenstein, and India). Most of the site is in German:
- keywords: deutschland, germany, performance, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Germany
- valid as of 2008-03-25
TheJulius CaesarSite- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC
- The admirable Perseus Project has a site onJulius Caesar. A work in progress, the site includes various editions of the text of the play, copious amounts of scholarly criticism from 1623 to 1913, and many Roman materials:
- keywords: caesar, criticism, jc, julius, perseus, roman
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Julius Caesar
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- TheKing LearQuarto in Rehearsal and Performance
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/Q1LEAR%20PERFORM.txt
- Richman, David. "TheKing LearQuarto in Rehearsal and Performance." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Richman discusses performing from the quarto, rather than the recommended folio or conflated versions ofKing Lear:
- keywords: archive, folio, king, Lr, lear, performance, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- TheRichard IIIand Yorkist History Server
- http://www.r3.org/bookcase/more/index.html
- The Richard III Societyhas many texts in their e-library including More'sThe History of King Richard III. Locate this text at:
- keywords: R3, history, king, moore, richard, york
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Theatre Central
- http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites/category/2049
- Theatre Centralis a well maintained and comprehensive meta-site on theatre; the site also contains a news section:
- keywords: index, theater, festivals, links
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Theatre Database
- http://www.theatredatabase.com/
- Information and articles on Ancient, Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century theater is included on this site. Unfortunately, there are distracting advertisements:
- keywords: ancient, biographies, history, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- Theatre Erindale
- http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/academic/theatre/index2.html
- Mississauga, Ontario. Theatre Erindale's website houses a number of performance stills in their "Production Archive":
- keywords: company, production, university, toronto, mississauga, ontario, canada
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > Canada
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Theatre Museum of Waseda University
- http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/index-e.html
- 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:
- keywords: theater, japan, japanese, translation, tsubouchi
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09

Theatre Resources from Artslynx- http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/index.htm
- 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:
- keywords: history, international, performance, theater
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Theatre at UBC Study Guides
- http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/season/study_guides.htm
- The Falstaff Projectis a study guide available from the University of British Columbia's theatre department. The project is "a 'contraction' of four of Shakespeare 's linked historical plays --Richard II, the two parts ofHenry IV, andHenry Fifth." The guide can be downloaded in PDF format for Adobe Acrobat, and contains many short critical essays on the character of Falstaff:
- keywords: british, essays, falstaff, fifth, guide, 1h4, 2h4, henry, historical, r2, richard
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Theatre at UBC Study Guides
- http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/season/study_guides.htm
- The University of British Columbia provides an excellent study guide forMeasure for Measureto accompany their 2003 production:
- keywords: british, guide, measure for measure, mm, theater, ubc
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Measure for Measure
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Thomas Middleton's The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- http://www.tech.org/~cleary/2mt.html
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy, attributed to Thomas Middleton, is available at this site maintained by Chris Cleary of the University of Virginia:
- keywords: maiden, thomas, middleton, tragedy
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Middleton, Thomas (attrib.)
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks
- http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp
- Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks."Shakespeare Magazine.(Spring 1997). This site focuses on teachingThe Merchant of Venice, complete with all of its political difficulties, to high school students:
- keywords: merchant of venice, mv, scenes, teaching
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice
- valid as of 2005-09-12
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretations of Sources forMacbeth
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/macbethsources.html
- Locket, Joseph. "To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources forMacbeth."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Locket looks at Shakespeare's primary source materials forMacbeth, particularlyHolinshed's Chronicles, for production suggestions:
- keywords: historical, holinshed, Mac, macbeth, stage, sources, performance
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Macbeth
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One ofHamlet
- http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/hamlet/hirsh.pdf
- Hirsh, James. "To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One ofHamlet." This document is available in Adobe Acrobat format atEnterText1.2:
- keywords: film, ham, hamlet, james, oliver
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Touchstone : Co-operation and Partnership among UK Shakespeare Collections- http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/
- The British Library presentsTouchstone, a "research tool for Shakespeare research in the United Kingdom." From this site you can search for materials on Shakespeare in the UK, explore past and present productions, and submit questions to the Shakespeare Enquiry Service. This site includes a good exhibitions section:
- keywords: british, library
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto- http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
- The British Library's "Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto" site provides photo facsimiles of the library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theaters were closed in 1642. The site also offers background information on Shakespeare, the plays, and the quartos. You can even compare quartos side-by-side:
- keywords: comparison, manuscript, quarto, text, facsimiles
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2006-02-20

Triangulating Shakespeare- http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/index.html
- Steven Marx's courses center on teaching methods and student responses, with an emphasis on student performances:
- keywords: teaching, marx
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Troilus and Cressida
- http://www.curtainup.com/troiluscressida.html
- A site devoted to the production ofTroilus and Cressida, directed by Sir Peter Hall (2001). These reviews of the production also contains critical commentaries and stage history:
- keywords: troilus and cressida, history, review, stage, tro, troilus, peter hall
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > Troilus and Cressida
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Troilus and Criseyde
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=ChaTroi&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&part=0
- Troilus and Criseydeis available at the University of Virginia Library'sElectronic Text Center:
- keywords: tro, chaucer, troilus, criseyde, source
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Chaucer
- valid as of 2005-09-15

Tudor History- http://tudorhistory.org/
- An excellent site on all things Tudor. Lara Eakins' site includes important people in Tudor history, architecture, maps, performances set in the Tudor era, and many other helpful pages. Investigate this treasure trove at:
- keywords: queen, tudor, history, people, blog
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Tudor
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- Twelfth Night: All or Nothing, What You Will, It's All One - Or Is It?
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/12NIGHT%20ALLONOTH.txt
- Godshalk, William. "Twelfth Night: All or Nothing, What You Will, It's All One - Or Is It?" SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Godshald looks at substitution, interchangeability, and uniqueness inTwelfth Night:
- keywords: interchange, replacement, substitution, TN, twelfth night, uniqueness
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Twelfth Night
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Twilight Pictures: Internet Beaumont and Fletcher Editions- http://www.uq.edu.au/emsah/drama/fletcher/index.html
- Drew Whitehead at the University of Queensland is developing an ambitiousInternet Beaumont and Fletcher Edition. "No study of either Jacobean or Restoration drama can be complete without considering the works of John Fletcher and his collaborators":
- keywords: beaumont, drama, edition, fletcher
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- TwoLears For Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/TWOLEARS%20FOR_TV.txt
- Cook, Hardy M. "TwoLears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Cook compares two versions ofKing Lear-- Jonathan Miller's 1982 version with Michael Hordern as Lear for the series "The Shakespeare Plays" and Michael Elliott's with Lawrence Olivier.
- keywords: king, Lr, lear, performance, television
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Understanding Shakespeare'sTitus Andronicusand theEMEDD
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-01/si-01lancashire.html
- Lancashire, Ian. "Understanding Shakespeare'sTitus Andronicusand the EMEDD."Early Modern Literary Studies6.1/Special Issue 1 (1997): 6.1-20. A guided tour of theEarly Modern English Dictionaries Databaseand its usefulness when used alongsideTitus Andronicusto explore the different Renaissance meaning of many of the play's words:
- keywords: computer, database, definition, dictionaries, early modern, electronic, meaning, Tit, titus andronicus
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Titus Andronicus
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- University of Bristol Theatre Collection
- http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/
- 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:
- keywords: archive, artifacts, images, costume, database, performance, theater, vic
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- University of Glasgow : Emblems Website
- http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
- The Glasgow University Emblem Websitespecialises in French emblematic texts:
- keywords: emblem, french, text
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Upon the Hill and Grove at Billborrow
- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/billborow.htm
- Andrew Marvell's poemBill-borrowis available atLuminarium:
- keywords: andrew, billborrow, grove, hill, marvell, poetry
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marvell, Andrew
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- Utopia by Thomas More
- http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html
- Thomas More's text,Utopiacan be search at this site, created by Bill Uzgalis of Oregon State University:
- keywords: thomas, more, moore, utopia
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- Victor Hugo
- http://gallica.bnf.fr/
- Gallicacontains Victor Hugo's (1828-73) translations of the complete works of Shakespeare, including the apocrypha. Published 1865-73. You can view the eighteen volumes by entering the search feature of the website - the heading marked "Recherche" - and typing in "Shakespeare" in for "Motre du titre" and "Victor Hugo" and typing in "Shakespeare" in for "Auteur." This site is in French:
- keywords: apocrypha, complete works, french, hugo, translations, victor
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Translations
- valid as of 2005-10-07
- Vincentio's Fraud: Boundary and Chaos, Abstinence and Orgy inMeasure for Measure
- http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1998.html#Vincentio%E2%80%99s%20Fraud:
- Holloway, Brian. "Vincentio's Fraud: Boundary and Chaos, Abstinence and Orgy inMeasure for Measure."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)21 (1998). A look at Vincentio's actions and incentives as part of the dark and cyclical cosmos ofMeasure for Measure's Vienna:
- keywords: boundary, chaos, duke, MM, measure for measure, motive, sexuality, vincentio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Measure for Measure
- valid as of 2005-10-20

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle- http://vos.ucsb.edu/
- Alan Liu'sVoice of the Shuttleprovides electronic texts of a large number of historical literary texts. The site attempts to place these texts in their societal context with sections on Art and Art History, Architecture, Literature (English and other languages), as well as many others:
- keywords: architecture, art, electronic, english, history
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts
- valid as of 2005-09-12

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle- http://vos.ucsb.edu/
- The "Renaissance & 17th Century" portion of the Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research is a good entry to other sites of interest:
- keywords: humanities, renaissance
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Research Resources
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s AFuneral Elegyand the Donnean Moment
- http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/summers.htm
- Summers, Claude J. "W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s AFuneral Elegyand the Donnean Moment."Early Modern Literary Studies. Special Issue 7 (May, 2001): 5.1-22. Summers compares and contrasts the funeral elegies of Shakespeare and Donne:
- keywords: death, funeral, donne
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Weather in Shakespheare -King Lear
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/shakespeare_lear.shtml
- You might not expect to find a commentary onKing Learat the BBC Weather web site but here it is - "Weather in Shakespeare -King Lear." This page also contains links to weather explanations concerningMacbeth,The Tempest, andSonnet 18:
- keywords: king, lear, lr, weather, pathetic fallacy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
- http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/
- Nicolas Pioch's mirror of theWebMuseum, Paris, has a range of high-quality scans of Renaissance paintings:
- keywords: art, paintings, paris
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- WebMuseum: Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
- http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/
- Another fine site on Pieter Bruegel the Elder from theWebMuseum, Paris. This site contains bibliography, paintings, and information about Pieter Bruegel the Younger and Jan Bruegel:
- keywords: bibliography, elder
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Art
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Welcome to the Mary Rose
- http://www.maryrose.org/
- This site is dedicated to theMary Rose, the only 16th century warship on display in the world. The ship was a favourite of KingHenry VIII. View this site at:
- keywords: henry, king, mary, rose, ship, sailing
- found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Combat
- valid as of 2005-09-14
- What "Maior" is Falstaff Denying?
- http://www.shakespeare-usa.com/Maior.htm
- Forward , Geoffrey G. "What 'Maior' is Falstaff Denying?"Shakespeare Quarterly41.3 (1990): 336-43. Falstaff, inHenry IV, Part 1says "I deny your Maior" in response to Prince Hal's attack, "And thou a naturall Coward, without instinct" (2.4.464-65); Forward explores how this "Maior" has proved problematic for readers, actors, and editors and provides his own gloss/reading:
- keywords: falstaff, 1H4, henry, maior
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Henry IV
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm
- Longstaffe, Steve. "What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?"Renaissance Forum2.2 (Autumn 1997). Longstaffe explores different approaches toward English History Plays, including Shakespeare's.
- keywords: english, forum, history, renaissance, play
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Who's Who in Tudor History
- http://tudorhistory.org/people/
- Who's Who in Tudor Historyis a useful index of significant people in the Tudor era:
- keywords: history, index, tudor
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism
- http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5D/C.Harris.html
- Harris, Colin. "'Polite Conversation': Performance, Politics, and National Unity in William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism."Prometheus Unplugged, 1996. A discussion of Hazlitt's part in the transformation of theater and Shakespearean criticism by Romantic ideas:
- keywords: criticism, performance, politics, theater, theatre, william
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-10-20
- William Shakespeare'sSmall Latine & Lesse Greeke
- http://durer.press.uiuc.edu/baldwin/index.html
- T.W. Baldwin's valuable information about Shakespeare's early education can now be viewed in this open-access electronic archive:
- keywords: education, school, latin, greek
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life
- valid as of 2006-10-20
- William Shakespeare, First Folio (eds. John Heminge, Henry Condell)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0018
- A facsimile of the 1623 Folio (lacking the prefatory material) is available at thePersues Digital Library, hosted by Tufts University:
- keywords: first, folio
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2008-02-25
- Wired for Books: William Shakespeare
- http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/shakespeare/
- Wired for Bookspresents William Shakespeare. Download RealPlayer video productions of some of Shakespeare's plays, as well as listen to Shakespeare's sonnets:
- keywords: andronicus, caesar, julius, merchant of venice, sonnets, taming of the shrew, titus, video
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- Women Writers Resource Project
- http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
- TheEmory Women Writers Research Projectis home to a collection of texts by women "writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century." Access this collection at:
- keywords: collection, english, seventeenth, women
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers
- valid as of 2005-09-14

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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-10-20
World Wide Study Bible- http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/
- World Wide Study Bibleis an attempt to organize all Bible-related resources on the WWW according to scripture reference. Contains five English versions of the Bible with links to commentaries, meditations, sermons, pictures, musical settings, etc. This site is developed in connection with Wheaton College:
- keywords: bible, religion, scripture
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Religion and the Church > The Church > Bible
- valid as of 2005-09-15
- Writing About Shakespeare
- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n24/kerm01_.html
- Kermode, Frank. "Writing About Shakespeare."London Review of Books21.24 (1999). Kermode argues that Shakespearean criticism should return to a focus on the words of the text:
- keywords: criticism, new criticism, text
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles
- valid as of 2005-09-07
Yahoo Gateway- http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Playwrights/Shakespeare__William__1564_1616_/
- The Yahoo gateway organizes its information about Shakespeare into such topics as "Authorship Issue," "Journals," and "Parodies":
- keywords: directory, gateway
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways
- valid as of 2005-10-05
- edHelper
- http://www.edhelper.com/
- A search for "Shakespeare" atedHelpter.comlocates a number of lesson plans and other educational tools:
- keywords: lesson plans, teaching, education
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Teaching resources
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- virgil.org
- http://virgil.org/
- An introduction to Virgil, maintained by David Wilson-Okamura, can be located at:
- keywords: virgil
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Virgil
- valid as of 2005-09-15
yourDictionary.com: A Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal- http://www.yourdictionary.com/
- A comprehensive collection of language and specialty dictionaries:
- keywords: collection, dictionaries, dictionary, reference
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference
- valid as of 2005-08-02