Links Database:
Keyword historical

Folger Shakespeare Library- http://www.folger.edu/
- The Folger Shakespeare Library contains 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 Library contains 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
- Medieval & Renaissance Europe
- http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/
- EuroDocs hosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.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
Renaissance Forum- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/index.html
- Renaissance Forum is 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
- Shakespeare and Religion in Reformation and Post-Reformation England
- http://www2.bc.edu/~taylor/shakes.html
- The Shakespeare and Reformation Chronology lists 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
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
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 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 via Early 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
- Theatre at UBC Study Guides
- http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/season/study_guides.htm
- The Falstaff Project is 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 of Henry IV , and Henry 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
- To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretations of Sources for Macbeth
- http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/macbethsources.html
- Locket, Joseph. "To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources for Macbeth." Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Locket looks at Shakespeare's primary source materials for Macbeth, particularly Holinshed'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
- James's Richard III Promptbook
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=richIII_james&PagePosition=1
- The Furness Collection houses a copy of Shakspeare'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