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William Shakespeare
An Alphabetical List of Links

Chill with Will "Helping high school students learn to love Shakespeare" - focuses on the four most famous plays "Romeo and Juliet", "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet", and "Macbeth"
The Complete Works of Shakespeare --full text collection of plays and poetry
Folger Shakespeare Library
Illustrated Shakespeare digital collection
Life in Elizabethan England
PBS: In Search Of Shakespeare
The Plays of William Shakespeare Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF); also has the sonnets in English and German
RENAISSANCE page of links
Renaissance, the Elizabethan World life in Elizabethan England, Elizabethan heraldry, the trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton, other Renaissance links
Renaissance Literature Resources (mostly Shakespeare links)
The Shakespeare Mystery Who in fact was he?
Shakespeare Online criticism, biography, plays and poems, key dates, scholars, FAQ
Shakespeare Oxford Society deals with "the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate"
Shakespeare's Globe Research Database a guide to the original Globe and its rebuilding
Shakespeare Quarterly "founded in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America. Housed and published by the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1972, SQ is the world's foremost journal focusing on all aspects of Shakespeare studies"
Shakespeare Resource Center - BardWeb includes criticism and information on the man, his works, play synopses, Shakespeare's will, the authorship debate, the Globe, Elizabethan England, the language
Shakespearean Insulter hundreds of Shakespearean insults
Shakespeare's Globe Research Database a guide to the original Globe and its rebuilding

"Not all the English have been so admiring [of Shakespeare]. The eighteenth century found his work rather barbarous, while others have found his jokes dismally unfunny..." (Terry Eagleton. "Company Man." The Nation, March 1, 2004, 29).


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