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Absolute Shakespeare

• The essential William Shakespeare resource with Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems. Study Shakespeare with plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, pictures, timeline, trivia, the Globe Theatre and links.

1994 National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare

• "This page is dedicated to teaching Shakespeare through performance. Much of the information herein was gathered at the 1994 National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare."

A Midsummer Night's Dream study guide

• Now including a PC compatible study guide for downloading.

• Go to tutorial on Henry IV, Part i.
• Go to tutorial on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Go to tutorial on Othello.
• Go to tutorial on Richard II.
• Go to tutorial on The Tempest.

Cincinatti Shakespeare Festival

• A very vital and active festival with many community and education programmes.

• "The CLSF is a company dedicated to producing the plays of Shakespeare in the way that the

author intended - fun, at the speed of thought, and in the midst of a vibrant community."

• The Utah Shakespearean Festival is the place to turn when you need information about Shakespeare and other theatre people, places, and events. Thus we have opened our archives from past issues of Insights, Midsummer Magazine, educational study guides, souvenir programs, and other publications containing the articles, pictures, and other teaching aids below. They are a starting point for research and study, for teaching, and for general information.

  This resource page will grow as we put more information together and provide more aids of various kinds.

  All the resources below are fully copyrighted by the Utah Shakespearean Festival. You may, however, download and print them for educational purposes, as long as you credit the Utah Shakespearean Festival on each article or photo.

Everything Shakespeare

• This is a site completely devoted to William Shakespeare and to those of you who are seeking knowledge of him and his works. If you have any information to contribute please feel free to e-mail me. I would be happy to hear from you.  This site contains his complete works. Summaries of his work. Free essays on his work. A history of the man himself. Links to other Shakespeare resources. We also have provided a message board for those who want to talk to others about Shakespeare.

Folger Shakespeare Library

• The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library. A major center for scholarly research, the Folger houses the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works.  Also contains a great selection of lesson plans.

• Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Littauer. This unit was designed for use with 12th grade English classes.

• The Hamlet Home Page is every teacher's dream! It contains the text of Hamlet, scene by scene summaries, a brief biography of Shakespeare, several pages which can be used as handouts, and a discussion area.

• Doing some research? Check out the Articles and Program Notes available here, including a full range from perspectives on history plays and notes on unique productions at the Festival to lighter articles. Also included are scholarly critiques by Shakespeare Bulletin.

Internet Shakepeare Editions 

• The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet.

• Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Sommer Littauer. Quite a useful series of activities and resources, prepared by a high school teacher - basically literary approach though.

• An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources available on Internet. Newcomers should read the Introduction for an explanation of the layout. Old timers should read What's News each visit for highlights of exciting new sites and features. [This is one of the best listings of Shakespeare resources I've found on the web - Webmaster]

• An animated version with questions and answers... cheesy but interesting.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

• The Oregon Shakespeare Festival traces its roots back to the Chautauqua movement, which brought culture and entertainment to rural areas of the country in the late 19th Century. 

• Proper Elizabethan language is not the modern 'snooty' English of many plays and movies, nor the drawn out cockney accent; proper Elizabethan is more akin to the speech of backwood communities on the East Coast of the United States, where language has not changed significantly since the founding of those communities. Listen, copy and learn.

• Complete scripts and reviews of the parodies of Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear.

• Quite a good little Shakespeare page; contains a biography, essays and articles on the Bard and his work, production notes for Hamlet and a range of other useful material.

• Seegers Resources, an exciting new site providing a wealth of educational resources. Seegers Resources offers the ‘one stop’ convenience of offering a variety of educational resources all in one place...launched with resources for Hamlet by William Shakespeare. These include Hamlet lesson plans, Hamlet study notes and some historical background to the play. In support of the Hamlet educational resources we have put together a carefully selected catalogue of Hamlet audiobooks and Hamlet Videos.  Look under KNOWLEDGE NOTES

• A comprehensive collection of references to the Bard and his works.

Shakespeare: The Complete Works

• Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare

• "This page is designed as an introductory resource for anyone who is interested in the nature of Elizabethan anti-Semitism: both in its historical context and, in particular, how it is reflected and embodied in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice."

• Two resources really. Shakespeare's Globe - An online guide to the history of its reconstruction, the people behind it, the Exhibition, how to get there. Shakespeare in Performance - An online archive about the building of the original Globe theatres the design and building of the new Globe staging at the original Globe staging at the new Globe

Shakespeare Eclectic Science Fiction Interactive Theatre 

Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Role Play & Educational Gaming Resources

• This page is basically a place for links to information about and scenarios for Interactive Drama, Freeform Role Plays, and Live Action Role Playing games. We'll also try to incorporate as much information as possible about educational use of role playing games and the like, particularly for language learning.

• Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another.

• Shakespeare In Action is a multi-racial classical repertory company with a strong commitment to Arts-In-Education. The programs we offer are part of our long range plan to make the arts a vital and integral part of the education of our children and our community. Our particular interest is in the written work, the demonstration of language, the study of the poetry and the history of Shakespeare. Our goal is to inspire a love and appreciation for the spoken word and to build a future audience through our innovative educational workshops, projects, programs and productions.

• A small collection of quite useful resources about the plays.  Some work from students is available.

• This page contains both links to sites designed to teach Shakespeare over the Internet and in the classroom, and sites which contain mostly non-print educational materials (such as CD, other software, posters and illustrations, etc.) related to the teaching of Shakespeare.

• Shakespearemag.com is an on-line support for our print magazine, Shakespeare, sponsored by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press. We’ve been in business since the fall of 1996 and publish three times a year. You can see the type of articles we print by checking out our archives. The web site provides the most current news about Shakespeare and is updated constantly.  Shakespeare sprang from the vision of Keith Rose, Peggy O'Brien, and Michael J. Collins, three people who have had a great deal of influence on the way Shakespeare is taught in the United States and Britain today. Keith, whom you know through the Cambridge School edition of Shakespeare plays; Peggy, whom you know through Shakespeare Set Free and her work at the Folger Shakespeare Library Education program; and Mike, whom you know through his teachers' programs and Shakespeare classes at Georgetown, all share a commitment to teachers, and all have put big stakes on teaching by performance

• Shakespeare is smiling because we have user-friendly hypertext study guides for Shakespeare's plays.  For a free test drive, just click on the name of an available Navigator.  Available: Hamlet Navigator, Macbeth Navigator, and Othello Navigator.  Under construction: Romeo and Juliet Navigator, including the complete text of Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, Shakespeare's source for Romeo and Juliet.)  Also: The complete text of the critical classic, A. C. Bradley's Shakespeaean Tragedy. 

• Home Page of the Shakespeare Oxford Society, the oldest continuously operating organization involved in the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate. The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare.

• . . . an interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works.

Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century 

• Studies of the stage texts used during the Seventeenth Century - a remarkably interesting collection of material maintained and presented by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.

• Send a message on the WWW accompanied by a sonnet from the big guy.

• The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust came into existence after the purchase of Shakespeare’s Birthplace in 1847 in order to preserve it as a national monument. The site has quite a range of resources including information about the houses, museums and records held at Stratford-upon-Avon; an education section; and listings of events.

• All combined, they dramatize five generations of medieval political mayhem, with an emphasis on the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War with France.  Resounding with powerful characters and conflict, these plays are a significant influence on modern fantasy, most notably George R. R. Martin's brilliant A Song of Ice and Fire.

The Shakespeare Essays of Professor Sir Walter Murdoch

• These seven essays are from the Collected Essays of Walter Murdoch, published by Angus and Robertson Limited in 1939.  They are republished on this website for three reasons:
  • They provide a unique critical insight into the works of William Shakespeare; 
  • Murdoch's Collected Essays has been out of print for many years; and 
  • As (arguably) Australia's greatest ever 'man of letters', Murdoch's name is largely unknown outside his home country, and is rapidly being forgotten even in Australia.

• Looking to work with a classical monologue - then this site might be the place to look.

• In the tradition of the many mediums in which we hold the world's greatest playwright, we have developed this website. It is a place for all types of Shakespeare people to interact and work together. Shakespeare enthusiasts will be able to explore their passion to a level un-equaled on any other  website. Students and teachers alike will be able to research and comprehend Shakespeare to a fine point using our tools, study questions, guides, and collections from all over the internet. Even casual Shakespeare interests are satisfied with games, puzzles, and sounds that will send the mind soaring.  We are the hub of Shakespeare traffic on the Internet. 
• Please enjoy our work. As you walk through this 3D recreation of Shakespeare's theatre, remember that through all the mediums in which Shakespeare exists... music, art, theatre... the one place he is the strongest is in our hearts. 

• known as a playwright by his peers and classmates while attending Grays Inn Law School. Just has a PR problem with critics who never knew him and lived in different centuries.The Historical Facts are on this site to back it up. Includes an interesting segment on the possibility of Bacon being the author of Shakespeare.

• Basically a tourist guide, but contains some great information nonetheless.

Surfing with the Bard 

• A collection of fun links and resources dedicated to the Bard in the Information Generation.

• THE following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent are has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided. Commonly known as Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare - includes the Complete Sonnets.

• A glossary style page mainly exploring the connections between character and plays.

• This series of pages was originally intended for students who wish to study the works of William Shakespeare at the late high school or introductory college level.

• A site posted by PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) examining the premise that it wasn't really Shakespeare who wrote the works, just someone calling themselves Shakespeare. A great looking site with many interesting articles; including a complete transcript of a mock trial on the subject of Shakespearean authorship.

• More silliness really - the artist can only draw dachshunds so this particular experiment has, you might say, gone to the dogs.

• The Original VRML Dream project was a VRML-based theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its goal was to broadcast a "live" production of the play over the Internet. The play's characters, sets and props were constructed using VRML 2.0.

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