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  EuroDocs hosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.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