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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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