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)
