Resources for the study of Shakespeare

From this page you can access resources across the website:

• Texts of the plays and poems of Shakespeare
• The background of Shakespeare's Life and Times
• An extensive database of Shakespeare in Performance
• Pages of links to reliable sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance.

Reference works

You can also access reference works, critical articles, and other resources of use in the study of Shakespeare.

• A collection of essays on the reception and performance of Shakespeare's plays in countries as diverse as India, France, and Poland.

  Shakespeare Around the Globe

• John Velz's authoritative work on Shakespeare's use of classical materials and allusions in his plays:

  Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition

• An article by Eric Rasmussen on the printing and typesetting of Hamlet Q2.

  "Blindness and insight: Damaged type, damaged eyes, and Q2 Hamlet"

Background works

Works used by Shakespeare as sources for his plays, to be published by the end of 2005.

• King Leir. A transcription of the play which was one of the sources Shakespeare used in writing his own play on Lear.
• Pandosto. The prose romance by Robert Green from which Shakespeare derived much of the plot of The Winter's Tale.