General Websites | Life of Shakespeare | Online Journals | Online Texts | Performance & Theaters | Related Websites | See also Criteria for Evaluating Websites | Search Engines & Web Directories

General Web Sites

• Folger Shakespeare Library
  The  largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works and is a major center for scholarly research.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet.  Provides Shakespeare biographies, information about Elizabethan theaters and excellent guides to finding secondary sources on Shakespeare on the Web.
• Shakespeare Resource Center
  Provides a brief biography of Shakespeare, a short essay on Shakespeare's works, synopses of the major plays, a text of Shakespeare's will, a summary of the Elizabethan era, a commentary on Shakespeare's language, a reading list, and links to related sites.

Life of Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
  This site includes information about houses associated with Shakespeare and his family and read about their histories.
• Shakespeare's Life and Times
  A valuable resource for information on Shakespeare's life and on many aspects of the Elizabethan era.  Includes coverage of Elizabethan English, including sound recordings of passages from selected plays that illustrate Elizabethan pronunciation.
• Shakespeare's School
  Provides information about the school attended by Shakespeare as a boy and the education of boys in Elizabethan England.
• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
  A wealth of information about everyday life in Elizabethan England. Covers such topics as education, food, games, weddings, among others.

Performance and Theaters

• Shakespeare's Globe Trust
  Shakespeare’s Globe Trust is dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance. Uniquely its work celebrates the fact that the greatest dramatic poet in the English language lived and worked in London and that the cradle of English theatre was on Bankside by the River Thames.
• Shakespeare Examined through Performance
  Contains a variety of performance exercises developed by participants in a 1995-96 Folger Institute session and is a good resource for those interested in teaching and staging Shakespeare.
• The Interactive Shakespeare Project
  This online study guide for Measure for Measure offers an annotated text of the play, a teacher's guide, essays, performance exercises, photos, video clips, and a virtual tour of Shakespeare's Globe.
• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982
  The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies and televised Productions.

Shakespeare's Texts Online

• Internet Shakespeare Editions
  ISE's site offers annotated, old-spelling transcriptions of the plays.

Shakespeare Journals Online

• Early Modern Literary Studies
  Available here are full-text articles and reviews from this online scholarly journal of English language and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Shakespeare Magazine Online
  Provides selected articles as well as current information about Shakespeare events, including performances, films, conferences, and lectures.
• Shakespeare Quarterly
  Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's (Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.
• Shakespeare Studies
  Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's (Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.

Related Web Sites

• British Library
  The web site of the UK's national library.
• Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
  A database that combines the full texts of early dictionaries, glossaries, grammars and encyclopedias written from 1500 to 1660.
• Internet Movie Database
  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was started in 1990 on the rec.arts.movies newsgroup by a group of movie fans.  Includes  information on hundreds of thousands of movies and the people who help make them. Includes actors and actresses, directors, writers and a wide variety of other folks from producers to gaffers.  Provides a variety of search indexes.
• Literary Resources on the Net
  This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics - most poetry journals are excluded, for instance. This page is maintained by Jack Lynch.