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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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

• 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