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• Charles Knight's Shakespeare

  http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/

  Charles Knight's Shakespearefeatures high-quality renderings of the 38 engravings from theImperial Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works(1873). Includes accompanying English and Dutch texts and there are a number of sound recordings for the English texts, along with an overview of Charles Knight's working life:

  keywords: edition, english, life, sound

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Graphics and sound

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Donne, John (1572-1631)

  http://www.ccel.org/donne/deaths-duel/deaths-duel.html

  A number of John Donne's works and sermon's, such asDeath's DuelandSermon Preached to the Lords upon Easter-day, at the Communion, are available at this site which is maintained by theChristian Classics Ethereal Libraryat Calvin College:

  keywords: death, donne, john, life, poetry, religion, sermon, church

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Donne, John

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Educating Shakespeare - school life in Elizabethan England

  http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm

  Educating Shakespeareexplores the influence of Shakespeare's education on his writing and works, as well as provides a guide to standardized Elizabethan education:

  keywords: education, england, life

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

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times

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

  The Internet Shakespeare Editionshas 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

• 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 ofKing 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

• Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/

  Christus Rex's site onLes Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berryprovides facsimiles of the entire medieval manuscript as well as a page-by-page commentary. This site provides many wonderful and colourful images of medieval life:

  keywords: facsimiles, life, medieval

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Art

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge

  http://compendium.elizabethan.org/

  Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledgeis a collection of information about daily life from 1558 to 1603 for "writers, actors, and re-enactors." Includes well-researched anecdotes, often with attractive and authentic graphics:

  keywords: elizabethan, collection, england, graphics, life

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• More's Life ofRichard III

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

  The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third. Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text can be accessed at theFurness Collection:

  keywords: R3, death, edward, england, fifth, historie, library, life, london, richard

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

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• No Sweat Shakespeare

  http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/

  No Sweat Shakespeareis a site that endeavours to present Shakespeare's works with the "the aim of helping 21st century students understand Shakespeare's language." The site provides a number of helpful links, play and character summaries, interesting information that targets youth and children, and more. The site does exhibit some advertising, but it is minimal in comparision to the materials it makes available:

  keywords: article, festival, guide, insult, life, quote, summaries, time, translation

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Gateways

  valid as of 2005-10-25

• Pope's Lear

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

  The life and death ofKing Lear. In The works of Shakespear : in six volumes / collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, in the Strand, 1723-1725. (King Lear):

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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Renaissance, The Elizabethan World

  http://elizabethan.org

  Renaissance: The Elizabethan Worldcontains links to information on everyday life, the sumptuary laws which dictated what one was allowed to wear, heraldry, and other topics connected to Renaissance England. View this site at:

  keywords: elizabethan, life, law, sumptuary

  found in: Renaissance Sites > History

• Rowe'sThe Life of Mr. William Shakespear

  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/rowe.htm

  Rowe, Nicholas. Introduction.Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, 1709. (Site is maintained by Terry Gray) Rowe was Shakespeare's first editor as well as his first biographer:

  keywords: life, rowe, biography

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Outline of Shakespeare's Life

  http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/12/12

  The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has an excellent discussion of Shakespeare's life on its website:

  keywords: birthplace, life, stratford

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

  valid as of 2006-11-29

• 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

• Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

  http://www.sca.org/

  TheSociety 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

• Stratford-upon-Avon: William Shakespeare

  http://www.stratford.co.uk/shakespeare.asp

  InfoWeb'sStratford-upon-Avonprovides an account of Shakespeare's life with a picture of his birthplace:

  keywords: birthplace, life, stratford

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

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage

  http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

  Harvard University has an extensive site on Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works:

  keywords: geoffrey, chaucer, life

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Chaucer

  valid as of 2005-09-15