Play Texts

http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/index.html
Both sites offer the Folio text.

www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/
They claim to be the “Web’s oldest Shakespeare site.” This is our favorite site because when you copy and paste the text into Microsoft Word, the text is formatted into tables, rather than with nasty tabs.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Businesslike and scholarly texts of the plays, supported by MIT.

Elizabethan/Renaissance

LIFE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603. This site offers a concise, yet superficial view of basic daily existence in Elizabethan England. Good for a basic introduction to the period and quick fact searches.

EURODOCS: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Contains facsimiles of documents from the period concerning wedding ceremonies, 16th &17th century newspapers and writings authored by Queen Elizabeth.

MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England 1577. Holinshed’s Chronicles are a primary source account of daily living in England during the Renaissance. It includes a discussion of topics such as laws, policies, inventions and public health.

RENAISSANCE RESOURCES
Designed for scholars and Renaissance Faire aficionados, this page has links to nearly anything and everything, from portraits of Elizabeth I to the rules of rapier and dagger fighting to Elizabethan gardening and the Great Chain of Being. If the site is missing anything at all, you bet it links to a page where that something can be found.

Guide to Shakespeare’s playhouses and playing

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM
The society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating pre-17th-century European history. Some of the material is highly esoteric, but the SCA is a wonderful resource for finding helpful people in your area.

Sources

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/chaironeia/
http://www.e-classics.com/plutarch.htm
Either of these websites include anything and everything you would want to know about Plutarch, including the text of Plutarch’s Lives

Lesson Plans and study guides

Unit designed for teaching Hamlet to grade 12 students.

Links and lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare’s plays to primary and secondary students.

Play guides for all of Shakespeare’s works, from The Royal Shakespeare Company in England, for both teachers and students.

Features high-quality study guides and lesson plans in various academic areas

An act-by-act summary and analyses of Hamlet, as well as an e-text of the play

A thorough guide and links to all and anything Shakespeare

Miscellaneous

www.webweaving.org
PERSONALIZED SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS.
We dare you to go to this site, thou tottering shard-borne pumpion!

 

Please Note:
If you have any suggestions of other websites to add to our list, please email us at education@shakespeare.org.

Also, due to the constantly changing nature of the web, let us know if any of these sites are no longer accessible, so that we can update our list.

 

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