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• "Otello" The Story That Started It All

  http://www.classical.net:80/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/otstory.html

  A modern translation of Cinthio's Moor of Venice, Shakespeare's source for Othello:

  keywords: history, oth, othello, source, moor

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Othello

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• "That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites": The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello

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

  Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello." Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Briefly explores Othello in the context of relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period:

  keywords: context, early modern, history, Oth, othello, ottoman, turks

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Othello

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Art History Resources: Part 8 15th-Century Renaissance Art

  http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html

  This site, designed by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, discusses Northern European and Spanish art:

  keywords: art, history, europe, italy, spain

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Art

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Caesar's Reviving Blood

  http://www.leithart.com/archives/000791.php

  Leithart, Peter J. "Caesar's Reviving Blood." Leithart.com, 2004. Leithart delves into the historical background, structure, social and political issues, and conceptions of ceremony and sacrifice that exist within the play the play:

  keywords: background, caesar, ceremony, history, JC, sacrifice, structure, politics, religion

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Julius Caesar

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• Daniel's Collection of the history of England

  http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=daniel_collection&PagePosition=1

  Daniel's Collection of the history of England. Printed at London : [by Nicholas Okes], 1621. Cum priuilegio. This text is available at the Furness Collection:

  keywords: collection, england, history, library, london

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Daniel, Samuel

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• English Literary History

  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/

  English Literary History (ELH) is a refereed journal that focuses on the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. Project Muse provides free access to some of this journal's articles, however, most require a subscription:

  keywords: articles, english, history, journal

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Folger Shakespeare Library

  http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm

  The Folger Shakespeare Library maintains some excellent pages on the exhibitions they have mounted. There are some superb resources available here on the social history of the Renaissance:

  keywords: history, library, renaissance, social

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• Given Names in England Before 1800

  http://www.galbithink.org/names/engb1800.htm

  Douglas Gabi's personal website offers a great section on given names in England before 1880. The information stems from a number of legal documents such as parish and guild registars. This site is interesting, since it makes note of religious trends and common names during Shakespeare's era:

  keywords: census, history, names, culture, religion, england, church

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/index.html

  The Internet Shakespeare Editions has an extensive site on Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance context of the stage, society, politics, the history of ideas, and the literature of the time:

  keywords: history, life, politics, renaissance, stage

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Shakespeare's life

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Lectures on Early Modern European History

  http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/earlymod.html

  The History Guide offers excellent materials dealing with ancient and Medieval history on its page Lectures on Early Modern European History:

  keywords: early, modern, guide, history, lectures, medieval

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Medieval

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Legends - Shakespeare's Stories - Macbeth

  http://bestoflegends.org/shakespeare/macbeth.html

  Find Macbeth sources on the Legends website. This site provides information on the historical figures behind the play:

  keywords: history, mac, macbeth, scotland, legends

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Macbeth

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/cwebtemp.html

  Carey-Webb, Allen. "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May, 1999): 3.1-39. Approaches the schooling and teaching practices in The Tempest in terms of sixteenth-century politics and colonial discourses:

  keywords: colonial, discourse, education, history, national, politics, sixteenth, teaching, Tmp, tempest

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2

  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html

  Records of Early English Drama has extensive links to Medieval, Shakespeare and paleographical sites of interest on their WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2 page:

  keywords: drama, renaissance, history, medieval, music, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Richard III

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html

  The History of Richard the Third is available at Renascence Editions:

  keywords: R3, history, renascence, richard

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > More, Sir Thomas

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• Richard III

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html

  An edited version of Thomas More's History of King Richard the Third is available at Renascence Editions:

  keywords: R3, history, king, moore, richard

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Richard III - A Play for our Time

  http://library.thinkquest.org/26314/

  The site Richard III, A Play for Our Time - from Think Quest - provides historical, political, and psychological perspectives on the play and its central character:

  keywords: history, richard, r3, politics

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Richard III Society - American Branch

  http://www.r3.org

  The Richard III Society's mandate is to fight the myths and disparaging allusions which have grown up around the historical figure. Many of these are a result of the popularity of Shakespeare's play, which paints a rather grim figure of a King who actually instigated many social advancements in England:

  keywords: england, history, king, richard, r3, myth

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1998.html

  Hobbins, Daniel. The Sanctification of the Tudor Dynasty in Berard Andrè's "Vita Regis Henrici Septimi". SRASP. (1998). Exerpt: "it seems high time to reconsider the value of Andre's Vita, not as a revelation of history 'as it actually happened,' but as a humanist artifact, a very deliberately fashioned object..." View the full-text of this document at:

  keywords: history, papers, tudor

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Tudor

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

  http://www.sca.org/

  The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history. They maintain several useful pages on social history of Medieval and Renaissance life. You will have to sort out the sites that offer information from those that encourage membership. View this information at:

  keywords: anachronism, history, international, life, medieval, social

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/faustus.html

  The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is available through the Perseus Project at Tufts University. This hypertext edition allows the reader to compare the two very different early texts of the play:

  keywords: edition, history, marlowe, christopher, faustus

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Marlowe, Christopher

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• The Costume Page - Costume History

  http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html

  The Costume Page: Costuming Resource Online is maintained by Julie Zetterberg. Portions of this site are devoted to both Renaissance and Elizabethan fashions, with the later time period have an exceptional amount of material. The site a is a bit slow to load but does provide excellent coverage of historical eras:

  keywords: costume, history

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Costume

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Misogyny of Richard III in More's History of King Richard III and Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Third

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORESHAK%20RICHARD3.txt

  Lakowski, Ramuald I. "The Misogyny of Richard III in More's History of King Richard III and Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Third." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Lakowski explores Shakespeare's interpretation of More's account of King Richard III's misogyny:

  keywords: history, king, misogyny, R3, richard, sources, tragedy

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature

  http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/

  The Norton Anthology of English Literature's (NEAL) site Norton Topics Online provides online documents that assist in contextualizing texts from the Renaissance as well as the Middle Ages, the Restoration, the Romantic period, the Victorian age and the twentieth century. An all-round excellent source, this site provides many contemporary materials, carefully edited and annotated:

  keywords: english, norton, anthology, texts, history

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• The Renaissance: Authors and texts -- Shakespeare's sources

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/Authors_and_texts.html

  See Shakespeare's sosurces for the history plays at the Internet Shakespeare Editions:

  keywords: history, source

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Holinshed, Raphael

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Richard III and Yorkist History Server

  http://www.r3.org/bookcase/more/index.html

  The Richard III Society has many texts in their e-library including More's The History of King Richard III. Locate this text at:

  keywords: R3, history, king, moore, richard, york

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Theatre Resources from Artslynx

  http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/index.htm

  Artslynx International Theatre Resources, includes a list of "this month in theatre history" and contains links to everything from acting and performance resources to puppetry. This site also includes a section devoted to Shakespeare links:

  keywords: history, international, performance, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Troilus and Cressida

  http://www.curtainup.com/troiluscressida.html

  A site devoted to the production of Troilus and Cressida, directed by Sir Peter Hall (2001). These reviews of the production also contains critical commentaries and stage history:

  keywords: troilus and cressida, history, review, stage, tro, troilus, peter hall

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > Troilus and Cressida

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Tudor History

  http://tudorhistory.org/

  An excellent site on all things Tudor. Lara Eakins' site includes important people in Tudor history, architecture, maps, performances set in the Tudor era, and many other helpful pages. Investigate this treasure trove at:

  keywords: queen, tudor, history, people, blog

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History > Tudor

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle

  http://vos.ucsb.edu/

  Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle provides electronic texts of a large number of historical literary texts. The site attempts to place these texts in their societal context with sections on Art and Art History, Architecture, Literature (English and other languages), as well as many others:

  keywords: architecture, art, electronic, english, history

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm

  Longstaffe, Steve. "What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?" Renaissance Forum 2.2 (Autumn 1997). Longstaffe explores different approaches toward English History Plays, including Shakespeare's.

  keywords: english, forum, history, renaissance, play

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Who's Who in Tudor History

  http://tudorhistory.org/people/

  Who's Who in Tudor History is a useful index of significant people in the Tudor era:

  keywords: history, index, tudor

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• 1 Henry IV: Quarto

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

  The historie of Henry the Fourth : vvith the battell at Shrewsbury, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe. London : Printed by J. Norton, 1639. (King Henry IV):

  keywords: history, henry, 1h4, king, london

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Cibber's Richard III

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

  The tragical history of King Richard III as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Printed for B. Lintott at the Middle temple-gate, in Eleet-street [!], and A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon on London-bridge, 1700. (King Lear):

  keywords: cibber, history, king, london, richard, r3, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Henry V: Quarto 3

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

  The chronicle history of Henry the fifth: with his battell fought at Agin Court in France : together with ancient pistoll : as it hath bene sundry times played by ... the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants . London: Printed for T.P., 1608 [i.e. 1619]. (Henry the Fifth):

  keywords: chronicle, court, fifth, henry, history, h5, london

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• King Lear: Quarto 2

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=lear_q2&PagePosition=1

  M. VVilliam [Shake]-speare: his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters, with the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester,and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1608 [i.e. 1619]. (King Lear):

  keywords: chronicle, death, history, king, lear, life, london, lr

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Merchant of Venice: Quarto 2

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=merchant_q2&PagePosition=1

  The excellent history of the merchant of Venice : with the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets . London: Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 [i.e. 1619]. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: history, london, merchant, mv, quarto, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Pericles: Quarto 5

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

  The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre : With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince . London : Printed by I.N. for R.B., 1630. (Pericles):

  keywords: history, london, per, pericles

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Tate's Lear

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

  Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. The History of King Lear: Acted at the Duke's Theatre. London: Printed for E. Flesher, 1681. This text is made available by the University of Pennsylvania:

  keywords: history, king, lear, lr, london, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-09