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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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