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• 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

• James'sRichard IIIPromptbook

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=richIII_james&PagePosition=1

  TheFurness Collectionhouses a copy ofShakspeare'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

• Medieval & Renaissance Europe

  http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/

  EuroDocshosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.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 Forumis 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 Chronologylists 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 viaEarly 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 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

• To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretations of Sources forMacbeth

  http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/macbethsources.html

  Locket, Joseph. "To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources forMacbeth."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Locket looks at Shakespeare's primary source materials forMacbeth, particularlyHolinshed'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