Multi-Topic Gateways to a wide variety of information about Shakespeare and his life and times
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The fourth edition of an annotated guide to Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, and the Renaissance on the Internet. |
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Provides access to full text essays about Shakespeare. The essays provide both a general overview of his work and a listing of essays by play. |
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A truly useful website. Spend some time here. |
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A very accessible and easy to use starting point for the study of Shakespeare. |
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A very comprehensive site. Worth a visit. Very accessible. |
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Some useful information here. However, some of the information is not free. |
Access to Shakespeare's Complete Works
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Histories, Comedies, and Tragedies. No Sonnets or Poetry. |
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A search engine that enables you to search the full text of Shakespeare's works (plays and poetry) for key terms and phrases. |
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Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, Sonnets, and Poetry. |
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Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, Sonnets, and Poetry. |
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37 Plays and 154 Sonnets. |
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37 Plays. |
Biographical
Information About Shakespeare
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The chart detailing the events of Shakespeare's life in outline along with important contemporary events and publications. |
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Dedicated to preserving Shakespeare's birthplace as a national monument in the United Kingdom. |
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A thoughtful and well-organized review of Shakespeare's life and those around him. |
The Sonnets and Poetry
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The full text of Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets. |
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The full text of Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets |
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Its all here. |
Shakespeare's work reflected in Art
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Explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another. |
The Globe and other Theatres of Shakespeare's Day
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A comparison of 11 locations where Shakespeare performed his works. Kelly, this site should start you in the right direction. |
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Approximately 20 full-text essays on various topics surrounding the theatres. |
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A guide to both the original and the new Globe Theatre's |
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A brief discussion, with photographs, of the architecture of the Globe Theatre. The "Theatre" link provides a nice list of various theatres around the world, enabling comparisons among buildings. The parent website of this link, The Great Buildings Collection, contains over eight hundred descriptions of buildings around the world. |
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Pictures of the exterior, entrance, and stage of the restored Globe, with text to guide you through your virtual tour. |
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A virtual reality tour of the Globe Theatre provided by Clemson University. |
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A thoughtful look at a theatre that housed plays by Kyd, Jonson, Shakespeare and Marlowe |
General
Architecture
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4 links to sites examining the architecture of Shakespeare's day. |
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An overview of English Architecture by time period directed at people visiting England as tourists. |
Raw and Bawdy Elizabethan Humor, both Old and New
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Curse your friends Elizabethan-style. |
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Curse your friends Shakespeare-style. |
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Humorously abbreviated versions of Shakespeare's works. |
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Search all of Shakespeare's works in a wide variety of ways. An interesting way to explore the plays and poems. |
Elizabethan England and The Renaissance
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An overview of the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe between the 14th and 16th Centuries, a period of time also known as the Renaissance. |
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Learn about Shakespeare's Food. |
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Essays about life during in Elizabethan England intended for use by a club |
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A brief overview of life in Elizabethan England. |
Elizabethan
Costumes, Fashion, and Makeup
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The site to begin a study of Elizabethan Clothing. Simply Amazing. |
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A brief essay examining this subject. A link on the Elizabethan Costuming Page. |
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An interesting look at the cosmetics used during the Elizabethan era. |
Science
During the Renaissance
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A huge site devoted to every aspect of Renaissance science, particularly Galileo. Lots of beautiful pictures also. |
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A fascinating and in-depth look at the forerunner of modern chemistry. |
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A nice list of links providing access to resources examining how people understood nature in the centuries leading up to Shakespeare's day. |
Elizabethan
Martial Arts and Self-Defense
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An interesting look at swordplay. Be sure to look at the translated training manuals. |
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THE LEADING RESOURCE FOR HISTORICAL FENCING AND MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE FENCING. Many links. |
Essays and Full-Text Articles About Shakespeare's Work
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Where did Shakespeare get the inspiration for his works? Find out in these short essays. |
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19 essays on Shakespeare's works written by noted scholars down through the ages. |
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A series of full-text essays organized by Play. |
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Full text articles and scholarly critiques on production approaches to Shakespeare's works. |
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Provides access to critical commentary on each play. Once you arrive at the site, click on the play you want to study. After arriving at the play, click on "More" and you will see the drop down menu of other essay choices. |
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11 full-text essays on Shakespeare's work. |
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An impressive list of links providing access to journals, collections of articles, and individual articles indexed by play. Most of the essays are apparently full-text. |
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Materials for the Construction of Shakespeare's Morals: The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance |
"Major Ethical Authorities, Indexed According to Virtues, Vices, and Characters from the Plays, as well as Topics in Swift, Pope, and Wordsworth." |
The Authorship Controversy
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This site provides a good introduction to this controversy. Thomas this site should get you on the right track. |
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"Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare." |
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A quick overview of the debate and its principal players. |
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A extensive commentary by Paul Dupuy about the authorship controversy. The essay contains much biographical information and photographs. |
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The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare. The society also publishes Ever Reader, which contains many articles, conference papers and news imparting a wide range of corroborating information and commentary. |
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This site argues and provides evidence that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works. |
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The Shakespeare Mystery: Who, in fact, was he? (Frontline/PBS) |
A useful overview of the debate. |
Study Guides
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A brief guide to studying Shakespeare. The guide gives useful help in reading and understanding the plays and poetry. |
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An extremely useful list suggested essay topics. The topics are indexed by play, so each list of 10 or so suggested topics is focused on issues pertaining to a particular play. If you are having trouble with your research project, then this site may get you back on track. The suggested topics may even help you understand the major issues in a particular play and how those issues relate to your chosen research topic. Sooner or later, everyone should take a look at this site. |
On-Line Magazines
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The Ever Reader features a sampling of news, articles and essays drawn from recent issues of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, past materials published by the Society or its predecessors, and new material written exclusively for first publication on the Net. |
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Primarily an advertisement for readers to purchase subscriptions to the magazine. Most of the articles are not full-text. A small few are accessible. |
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Some 70 contributions on Shakespeare have appeared in the first nine volumes of Connotations (1991-2000). This is a complete list; highlighted articles and responses are freely available online. |
Shakespeare
and Anti-Semitism
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"This page is designed as an introductory resource for anyone who is interested in the nature of Elizabethan anti-Semitism: both in its historical context and, in particular, how it is reflected and embodied in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." |
Source: Mrs. Julie Norris