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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