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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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/

  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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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- 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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