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• Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays...

  http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

  Absolute Shakespeareis a well-designed site that provides texts of the plays and poems, early essays on them, and some study guides aimed at the high school student:

  keywords: essays, quotes, summaries

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• EnjoyingHamletby William Shakespeare

  http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm

  This site onHamletprovides summaries and commentary. Directed towards high school and college students, the site is approachable and provides some good information and further links. Its one drawback is that all the material is loaded in one page, which makes for slow loading and rather unweildy navigation:

  keywords: ham, hamlet, summaries

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

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Hamlet Online

  http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/

  Hamlet Onlineis a fantastically comprehensive site created by John Hubbard, an Electronic Source Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Navigate through this page to find a number of sites offering course materials, full texts, translations, and Hamlet pages ranging from the seriously studious to the humorous and playful:

  keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, links, papers, summaries, translation

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

  valid as of 2005-10-18

• Macbeth: An In depth Analysis

  http://library.thinkquest.org/2888/

  Hypertext version ofMacbethfrom Think Quest. This site is by and for high school students (as well as teachers). Included are summaries of acts and scenes, a glossary, as well as an introduction to some basic themes:

  keywords: analysis, mac, macbeth, scenes, summaries

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• 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

• NoSweatShakespeare

  http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/

  King, Warren.No Sweat Shakespeareoffers modern English translations of Shakespeare's plays, summaries, study guides and other resources as well as a Shakespeare for Kids series:

  keywords: summaries, translations, guides, modern

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials

  valid as of 2006-09-28

• SparkNotes

  http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/

  Sparknotes.comoffers introductory summaries, character descriptions, and brief discussions of themes and motifs for each of Shakespeare's plays. Sections such as "Key Facts" are useful to review before reading. This is a commercial site, so some materials are not available unless you sign up:

  keywords: english, review, summaries

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials

  valid as of 2005-09-06