Background Information on Renaissance England
Shakespeare Libraries and Historical Sites
Complete Texts of Shakespeare’s Plays
Romeo and Juliet at the Movies
Introduction
to Shakespeare
Britannica’s Shakespeare Web Site
http://shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html
A great web site with a virtual tour of the globe theater.
Chill with Will
http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/
A ThinkQuest project to help high school students love Shakespeare.
"Our website provides an overview on Shakespeare that is both easy to go
through yet thoroughly researched, conveniently accessible, and full of
illustrations and games to make learning about Shakespeare enjoyable. Our
focus is not on learning everything you can about the great Bard, but on
discovering different aspects of Shakespeare that appeal to teenagers."
The Shakespearean Mystery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/
This web site for a Frontline program in PBS examines the question
of whether someone else wrote at least some of the plays attributed to
William Shakespeare.
Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet
http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/
Shakespeare Timeline
http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/timeline/timeline.htm
MSN Encarta, "William Shakespeare"
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=02989000
William Shakespeare Biography
http://shakespeareweb.tripod.com/
Different eras of his life are illustrated.
Background Information on Renaissance England
Shakespeare’s Life and Times
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/fset_whole.htm
Find out about politics, the arts, music, literature, and other
information that will help you understand Shakespeare within the context
of the society in which he lived. This is really good!
Life in Elizabethan England
http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
Find out about daily life in Elizabethan England, including money,
time, dressing, etc.
Elizabethan Costumes
http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/costumes.html
Elizabethan Theater
http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/spear.html
Shakespeare From the Cheap Seats
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/Data-Base/Images/OpeningPhotos.html
Views from the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
Elizabethan Costumes
http://www.dnaco.net/~aleed/corsets/
Sixteenth Century Ballads
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
Tudor England
http://tudor.simplenet.com/
Currency Values in Elizabethan England
http://www.peak.org/shrewsbury/References/currency.html
Shakespearean Humor and Insults
http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/insult.htm
A ThinkQuest project by high school students.
Elizabethan Cosmology
http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/~bph/CED/Eliz.html
Do you know what Elizabethans believed the weather would be like
if they saw dogs rolling around or if ants were storing food?
Shakespeare Libraries and Historical Sites
Folger Shakespeare Library
http://www.folger.edu/welcome.htm
Furness Shakespeare Library at University of Pennsylvania
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/furness/
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
The New Globe Theater
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/
Updated information about the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre
in the Southwark district of London. Includes news about the inaugural
season of the reconstructed theater, papers on the debate regarding excavation
of the original Globe, a complete history of the reconstruction (with extensive
photographs and a virtual reality visit to the construction site), an extensive
database documenting the architecture of both theaters, and information
about theater production practices during the Renaissance and today.
Shakespeare Oxford Society
http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
The Shakespeare Classroom
http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/
The Shakespeare Web
http://www.shakespeare.com/
Internet Shakespeare
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/
Introduction to Shakey’s Place
http://library.thinkquest.org/10502/index2.htm
A student project on Shakespeare.
Webspeare
http://cncn.com/homepages/ken_m/webspeare.html
Take a quiz, find a play, check out if there was a movie version,
find other web links, etc.
WillShakespeare.com
http://www.WillShakespeare.com/
Links to complete works, quotes, and other information.
Surfing with the Bard
http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/
Shakespeare Illustrated
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
Romeo and Juliet Paintings
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/R&JPaintings.html
Complete Texts of Shakespeare’s Plays
Romeo and Juliet
http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/romeoandjuliet/romeoandjuliet.html
The entire text of the play online.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Shakespeare Bookshelf
http://www.ipl.org/reading/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
Romeo and Juliet at the Movies
Romeo+Juliet
http://romeoandjuliet.com/
A web page for the innovative and imaginative 1997 movie with Leonardo
di Caprio and Claire Danes. This is great fun.
Romeo and Juliet 1968
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9251/rj1968.html
This is a fan page for the more traditional 1968 movie.
West Side Story
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/4243/west-side-story.html
Information on the musical version of Romeo and Juliet as New York
gang members.
West Side Story
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1833/
Shakespeare in Love
http://www.miramax1998.com/shakespeareinlov/
Shakespeare in Love
http://www.firth.com/html/shakes.html
A tribute web site with interesting information.
Shakespeare on Film
http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/films/movilist.shtml
General Advice on How to Watch a Shakespearean Film
http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/films/filmgen.htm
Romeo and Juliet Activities
http://www.cln.org/themes/romeo_juliet.html
Signet Edition Teacher Guide
http://www.penguinputnam.com/academic/resources/guides/shakrome/content.htm
Overviews, study questions, extended learning discussion questions,
a bibliography, and other information.
Shakespeare Alive Teaching Materials
http://www.kadets.d20.co.edu/shakespeare/shaktch.html
Shakespeare Homework Helper
http://hometown.aol.com/liadona2/shakespeare.html
At this site students can ask questions about Shakespeare, his plays
and the history of England while he was alive. The author of the site will
help students complete homework on Shakespeare, NOT by giving students
the answers, but rather by directing them to resources where they can find
the answers for themselves.
The Shakespeare Classroom
http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/
Initially designed for high school and college students, this site
contains study questions for Shakespeare's plays, answers to FAQs, and
sample assignments for college students.
Shakespeare Corner
http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/Littauer/Shakespeare.Corner
Sample Romeo and Juliet lessons.
Teaching Shakespeare
http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm
Sample lessons from the Folger Library.
Bardquest, A WebQuest about Shakespeare
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dlf3m/bardquest/bardquest.html
"You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/lessonplans/shakespeare.html
"This lesson plan complements study of plot and characterization
in Romeo and Juliet by focusing on Shakespeare's use of lyric forms and
conventions to spotlight moments in the drama and thereby heighten the
impact of the action on the stage."