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A great deal of information about Shakespeare's life, works, and times is available on the web and has been organized at a Shakespeare mega-site, "Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet" (http://shakespeare.palomar.edu ). Many of the websites below are also listed on this mega-site.

 

 

Shakespeare's Life

 

Shakespeare timeline:

shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm

 

Shakespeare in Stratford:

www.shakespeare.org.uk

 

Shakespeare's family:

www.shakespeare.org.uk


Shakespeare's will:

www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk

 

Text of the will:

fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/shakspere/shakwill.html


Shakespeare's grave:

www.stratford-upon-avon.org, select “Shakespeare”


Shakespeare's Theater

 

Theatre and costume of Shakespeare’s time:

shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm

 

English Renaissance costume:

costume.dm.net/

 

The Globe:

www.shakespeares-globe.org

 

 

Shakespeare in Theater History

 

Hamlet on the Ramparts.

A Folger / MIT collaboration, this site includes art, film, promptbooks, and primary sources for the ghost scene from Hamlet:

shea.mit.edu/ramparts/

 

 

Shakespeaean Quotes and Online Full Texts

 

For locating quotes, try these online concordances to the works of Shakespeare:

www.online-literature.com/shakespeare

www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare

 

For full-text versions of the plays online:

the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/   at MIT

etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/works/ at the University of Virginia

 

Shakespeare's Sonnets

 

A full-text version of the Sonnets based on the 1609 edition:

etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaSonQ.html


 

Shakespeare's Longer Poems

 

Copies of these as well as other Shakespearean works are found at the "Renascence Editions" site from the University of Oregon:

 

The Rape of Lucrece. Full-text version:

www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/rl.html

 

Venus and Adonis. Full-text version:

darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/va.html

 

A Lover's Complaint. Full-text version:

darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/lc.html

 

The Passionate Pilgrim. Full-text version:

darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/pp.html

 

The Phoenix and the Turtle. Full-text version at:

darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/pt.html


 

Shakespeare on Film

 

Shakespeare plays available on film:

www.bardcentral.com


 

Shakespeare in Performance

 

Behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company

for its 2004 productions of Hamlet and Macbeth

www.rsc.org.uk/learning/hamletandmacbeth

 

ASL Shakespeare Project:  Twelfth Night translated into American Sign Language.

www.aslshakespeare.com


 

Shakespeare's English Monarchs

 

Elizabeth I, James I, and the kings of Shakespeare's history plays:

www.royal.gov.uk (the British monarchy website)

 
Alberto Sangorski. Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Manuscript, 1926



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