Shakespeare Links

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:

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

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/plays.html at the University of Victoria

http://www.quartos.org at the Shakespeare Quartos Archive

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:

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444972/index.html

BBC Television Shakespeare:

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/19841

Shakespeare in Performance

Behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company

for its 2004 productions of Hamlet and Macbeth

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)