Best of the Web

  • A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College for students in English 366: Studies in Shakespeare in January 2001.
  • An electronic version of the second quarto and first folio editions. Both can be displayed in their entirety, but users can also search for and compare differences between the specific sections of the texts.
  • A directory of informative, worthwhile web pages devoted to Hamlet, divided into such categories as directories, discussion groups, full-text editions, humor, movies, papers, Shakespeare resources, spinoffs, summaries, and translations.
  • From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
  • From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
  • From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
  • A lecture prepared for English 366: Studies in Shakespeare, by Ian Johnston of Malaspina-University College, Nanaimo, BC.
  • A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina-University College, Nanaimo, BC.
  • Annotated, online version of the play.
  • A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional initiative at Holy Cross to use the World Wide Web to improve the teaching of Shakespeare.
  • Text, commentary, context.
  • "This volunteer-maintained site is sponsored by the American Branch of the England-based Richard III Society and devoted to the study of King Richard III, last of the medieval English kings the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic struggle in the later middle ages that pitted Yorkist against Lancastrian fifteenth-century England and its culture the reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama, especially Shakespeare."
  • Guides to the plays (plot summaries, thematic discussions, character analysis, etc.), quotes, critical essays, biographical info, questions and answers, all in an easy-to-navigate, searchable site.
  • Provides photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, television, opera and ballet.
  • Full-text articles which "examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
  • Links to resources in the following categories: Comprehensive Sites Shakespeare's Work on the WWW Shakespeare's Life on the WWW Shakespeare's Theatre(s) on the WWW Scholarly Sites, Criticism and Bibliography Authorship Debate, Teaching Shakespeare Shakespearein Performance Miscellaneous Shakespeare Sites.
  • Simple, well-organized list of reputable shakespeare sites on the Internet.
  • Provides listings of public events, library resources including the library's catalog HAMNET, information about publications such as Shakespeare Quarterly, and about educational programs for teachers and students.
  • Debates about who wrote Shakespeare have been prominent in Shakespearean scholarship for centuries. This site from PBS, based on a Frontline special, explains the issue.
  • Selected scanned resources from the library's collection of primary and secondary sources.
  • This browsable and searchable "online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection of 12 works, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century."
  • "This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share the marriage between book art and Shakespearean text with a wider audience. It also suggests the variety of responses by visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words."
  • Publishes peer-reviewed editions of early Shakespearean texts. The site also contains an excellent online textbook, Shakespeare's Life and Times by Michael Best, developing sections on Shakespeare in performance, supporting reference materials, and a good page of links to diverse Shakespeare and Renaissance sites.
  • "Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993."
  • The foremost gateway to Shakespeare on the Internet. The sitemap reveals paths to e-texts of the plays, criticism, biographical and historical info, original source material, pop culture uses of Shakespeare, & more. Also includes: " Shakespeare Timeline " A Shakespeare genealogy " Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare " Prefatory materials from the First Folio.
  • From the Richard III Society, resources on films and plays about Richard III, including a hypertext version of Shakespeare's play.
  • A site championing Shakespeare as the author of the plays.
  • Links to scholarly articles and essays "Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare."
  • Histories of the houses associated with Shakespeare and his family. A biographical section covers his life, family, history, and schooling.
  • During the 1995-96 academic year a group of sixteen college teachers participated in the the Folger Institute,"Shakespeare Examined Through Performance." This site presents a compilation of teaching and staging exercises developed during that program.
  • This site "explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."
  • An exhibition of illustrated Shakespeare editions from Washington University in St. Louis
  • University of Basel (in Switzerland) site organizes conferences and seves as a resource for european Shakespeare studies. Includes such topics as Reanissance life and history contemporary texts theatre/film studies and adaptations music education popular Shakespeare uses/adaptations criticism.
  • A bibliography of printed materials.
  • British Librarys digitized versions of 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto. Site includes background material, links and references, and a study of how the plays have been changed in print and performance.
  • Research and post-graduate center at the University of Birmingham.
  • Selected articles available online from this magazine "for teachers and enthusiasts".
  • Site based on a recent PBS Frontline program which explores the authorship question in an impartial fashion.
  • A site championing Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the author of the works.
  • Information on the man, his works & his times, as well as play synopses, a copy of his will, a reading list, and a noteworthy section on Shakespeare's language.
  • "This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London, it includes pagesdevoted to the original Globe and other playhouses in Early Modern London, reports and photographic documentaries on reconstruction and performances at the New Globe, and also some practical information.
  • This site is divided into ten "books", each of which in turn is divided into "chapters." Categories include: Shakespeare's life The stage Society History and politics The background of ideas The drama Literature, art, and music Some plays explored Reference and indexes.
  • Site of the King Edward VI School in Stratford.
  • "These works are studies of the stage texts used in various seventeenth-century performances of Shakespeare's plays. G. Blakemore Evans has identified the different manuscript hands that annotate the prompt-books and compared the cuttings with other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespearean stage texts. Thus, the collection provides an opportunity to examine Shakespearean performance traditions and innovations."
  • Publishes peer-reviewed editions of early Shakespearean texts. The site also contains an excellent online textbook, Shakespeare's Life and Times by Michael Best, developing sections on Shakespeare in performance, supporting reference materials, and a good page of links to diverse Shakespeare and Renaissance sites.
  • Located in Stratford-on-Avon, the Trust preserves Shakespeare's birthplace and maintains a museum and a library with a rich Shakespeare collection as well as the archives of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
  • Emphasizes Shakespeare in performance, with images, set designs, and a virtual tour of the new Globe Theater in London, as well as texts of the plays and guides to other Shakespeare websites.
  • A research tool for Shakespeare studies in the United Kingdom.