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for Shakespeare Studies at CMU 


 

SHAKESPEARE LINKS AND GENERAL STUDY SITES:

** THE BEST **

  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet -- your best first stop; an outstanding clearinghouse of Shakespeare sites with Prof. Terry Gray's expert comments on the world of Internet Shakespeare

  • A Selected Guide to Shakespeare on the Internet by Hardy Cook and the editors of SHAKSPER -- recently updated and annotated

  • SparkNotes -- an online study guide authored by Harvard grad students -- very efficient and useful

  • Bardweb.com -- The Shakespeare Resource Center -- not a lot of material, but what's here is well-written -- also contains a page of play synopses and a good, brief bio of Shakespeare.

  • Shake Sphere -- another good all-around site, authored by a non-academic but a serious Shakespeare scholar.  Links to film versions of the plays.

  • Shakespeare Online: Your Ultimate Shakespeare Resource -- although this site doesn't offer analysis of all the plays (more are being added), it's one of the best-written and most attractive study sites.

  • Internet Shakespeare: Home Page -- Very attractive site with a terrific "Life and Times" section and a well-organized links page.

  • AllShakespeare.com -- an excellent all-around site, with contributions by scholars, educators, and students and a really well-organized links page. HOWEVER, some of the material on this site is not accessible unless you purchase a "Pass."

  • THE REST

  • ClassicNotes -- setup similarly to SparkNotes, with some added features, including a for-pay paper editing service

  • Surfing With the Bard -- Amy Ulen's award-winning site for educators and students on both the secondary and higher-ed levels

  • Electric Shakespeare -- Larry Danson's long-running university site. Special feature: Shakescenes -- links to RealPlayer video clips of Shakespeare scenes.

  • GradeSaver.com -- analyses and summaries authored by Harvard students -- this site does buy and sell essays, which I don't approve of, but there is useful content here.

  • Interactive Shakespeare Project (Holy Cross College/Folger Library) -- very attractive site 

  • Shakespeare and the Globe: the Encyclopedia Britannica site (great visuals!)

  • Intro to Shakespeare

  • Susquahanna's Shakespeare Page

  • Prof. Fran Teague's homepage (U. of Georgia Shakespeare professor)

  • Renaissance Texts Research Centre: Shakespeare and the Globe

  • The Shakespeare Classroom

  • Shakespeare Documents -- all the documents that offer concrete biographical information

  • And for those interested in the "Authorship Question" -- the definitive Shakespeare Authorship Page


     

    SHAKESPEARE TEXTS ONLINE:

  • Shakespeare complete works

  • Shakespeare Database Project in Munster, Germany

  • The Collected Works of Shakespeare

  • Shakespeare First Folio (searchable)

  • A useful page with synopses of all the plays, from "The Shakespeare Resource"

    PLAY-SPECIFIC STUDY GUIDES:

    ANTONY & CLEOPATRA

    HAMLET

    KING LEAR

    MACBETH -- The Best:

    The Rest:

    MEASURE FOR MEASURE

    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

    OTHELLO

    RICHARD III

    ROMEO AND JULIET

    THE TEMPEST

    TWELFTH NIGHT

    THE WINTER'S TALE

    SONNETS

    Shakespeare/Renaissance Critical Journals Online

  • Routledge Accents on Shakespeare Series

  • The Shakespeare Journal

  • The Shakespeare Quarterly

  • Shakespeare Magazine

  • JSTOR: Shakespeare Quarterly

  • SHAKSPER Electronic Discussion List 

  • Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature

  • Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

  • Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

  • Renaissance Forum

  • (self-promotion warning!)  My article on "Shakespeare's Folklore and the English Holiday Cycle," originally appearing in Realms of Fantasy Magazine (August 2003), now reprinted on the Endicott Studio's online Journal of Mythic Arts.  My article, "Angels and Ministers of Grace: Theatrical Superstitions through the Ages," on The Macbeth Curse and other weird theater tales, appears in the same online journal, and appeared in the March 2005 issue of Realms of Fantasy, and Playing Fairy: Puck and Pan Onstage," appeared in Realms of Fantasy April 2006, is now up online as well.
    My latest article is
    "Carnivale on Shakespeare's Stage." Mythic Passages: The Magazine of Imagination, February 2007 (online journal).

  • Elizabethan Theater Resources

  • A terrific overview of The Development of English Drama, Medieval-Renaissance, by Prof. Jennifer Mooney of Virginia Tech.

  • The Early Modern Drama Database

  • Elizabethan Theater - slides

  • The Performance of Music in Shakespeare's Plays

  • Biographical Index to the Elizabethan Theater

  • Records of Early English Drama (REED)

  • Dr. Desmet's Renaissance Drama Homepage

  • Harvard College provides great slides of Early Modern Theater sites

  • A site that offers resources for studying Shakespeare Performance After 1660

  • "News on the Rialto" -- current events in Shakespeare performances and studies

  • Shakespeare Fun!

  • "Cat Head Theatre Does Hamlet," via YouTube,

  • Monkeys Typing Shakespeare is (are?) back!!

  • Hamlet's "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy: The Powerpoint Version

  • Like Hamlet?  Like cats?  Click here.

  • For techno buffs: Cable in the Classroom presents "Shakespeare: Subject to Change" -- an interactive text-editing experience that requires a broadband connection and a Flash plug-in

  • Shakespeare Magnet Poetry on a website!  (Your computer must be Java-enabled for this to work, but it's fun!)

  • Is Shakespeare Dead? (Mark Twain's famous essay)

  • Timon of Athens with Dachshunds

  • "Pete the parrot and shakespeare" (from Don Marquis' "Archy and Mehitabel")

  • The Green Eggs and Hamlet Homepage

  • Shel Silverstein -- Hamlet As Told On The Street (contains some offensive language)

  • Shakespeare Illustrated -- a beautiful art gallery of Shakespeare scenes

  • Shakespearean Insults -- Collect 'em! Trade 'em!

  • Shakey's Place -- cool 3-D graphics from ThinkQuest

  • The Gallimaufry

  • The Tudor Times

  • Shopping with the Bard: (caution! Be sure to use secure servers when ordering merchandise over the Net!)

  • Poor Yorick Home Page -- THE source for Shakespeare videos

  • The Writing Company --- Shakespeare

  • The Folger Shakespeare Library Museum Shop

  • Amazon.com's "Shakespeare Store" -- books, DVDs, more

  • Renaissance Studies Websites:

    Yes, there are Early Modern blogs --

    Maids, Wives and Mistresses: Early Modern Women
    Earmarks: Early Modern Culture
    Carnivalesque
    Early Modern Notes (more news items than blog)

    Other sites --

  • Renaissance, The Elizabethan World

  • Luminarium

  • VoS English Literature: Renaissance -- The Voice of the Shuttle is a helpful and well-maintained (by the University of California, Santa Barbara) clearing-house of literature-related links

  • A fabulous Timeline of Elizabethan/Jacobean history and politics

  • Virtual Renaissance -- a delightful site developed by grade-school students that allows you to imagine life in 16th c. England

  • Another Early Modern Chronology -- with specific details about the Wars of the Roses

  • A Compendium of Common Knowledge -- Indispensable!  The place to go if you want to know what life was like in Shakespeare's England

  • Early English Books Online

  • Renaissance Society of America -- a scholarly society that sponsors yearly conferences and essay collections

  • The English Emblem Book Project -- an ambitious resource for scholars of Early Modern symbolism

  • Welcome to Anglophilia

  • CERES - Cambridge Eng Ren Electronic Service

  • Public Domain Modern English Text Collection

  • Renaissance Faire -- for historical re-creation fans

  • Holinshed's Chronicles -- Shakespeare's source for his histories, Macbeth, etc., -- is now available online.

  • A helpful website on "How to Read a Poem"

  • And, for other historical-background sites, check out my links page for ENG 235, English Lit to 1800.



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