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About.Shakespeare.com is a great starting place with annotated links. All Shakespeare.com for each major play includes an introduction, scene summaries, searchable text, Q&A, and a bibliography. To access plot commentary, character analysis, criticism, essays and significant quotes you must buy a $5.95 pass code, good for 90 days. You can also buy the One-Page Play Posters here. Bard.net Resource Center is comprehensive and well-organized. BBC In Search of Shakespeare has multimedia files on Elizabethan life. Includes Flash games like Dress a Tudor. Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now by Encyclopedia Britannica is the biggest and best online study. Access is free for now. The Study Guide is creative and challenging. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust offers extensive biographical resources. Studies in Shakespeare makes available seventeen of Dr. Ian Johnston's lectures. Wired for Books offers free Real Audio and Real Video recordings. Check out the home page for more goodies. Complete Works of Shakespeare still offers full text. but footnotes are not currently available. Readable. Concordance to Shakespeare is searchable, fast. RhymeZone's Shakespeare Search is a database, searchable by play, act, even scene. Also provides lists of coined words and a database of the most popular lines. Shakespeare Navigators for Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy are user-friendly hypertext study guides. Shakespeare's Sonnet of The Day Lynch Multimedia offers adaptations, simplified prose versions of Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Anthony & Cleopatra, and A Winter's Tale.
Broadway Archive is the place to find taped-live great performances from Broadway and regional theatres around the country. Folger Library : Teaching Shakespeare presents lesson plans and resources for teaching many of the plays. Shakespeare Classroom offers study guide questions for most plays and an eclectic mix of material. Shakespeare Field Trip is a free internet virtual field trip Tourmaker WebTours with special resources provided for teachers. Shakespeare : For Teachers and Students is a megasite, with the links to everything else. Subdivided by individual plays. extensive, and updated often. Shakespeare Illustrated represents years of work finding, scanning, and linking all the art derived from Shakespeare's plays. Wow! Shakespeare Magazine offers exceptional teaching resources. Look for the Hamlet memo! Triangulating Shakespeare archives a selection of college level teaching materials -- online syllabi, lecture notes, and critical essays -- as well as student work -- papers, pictures, and performances on RealPlayer video clips. Web English Teacher offers links for teachers for fourteen of the plays. |
Best Sites
Hamlet from TNT Learning offers an interactive guide for the Branaugh version. Enjoying Hamlet by Ed The Pathology Guy is a unique experience. Julius Caesar HeySmarty.com provides links and study guides. Also has portals for Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. The Julius Caesar Site is part of Tufts University's Perseus Project, so it includes history and myth as well. King Lear Enjoying King Lear offers an unusual approach. Love, Tyranny, and Madness, the BBC site, presents Real Player clips and exerpts from the viewpoints of actors, directors, and critics. Macbeth Macbeth Plugged is a student ThinkQuest site with original illustrations, annotations, and summaries. Enjoying Macbeth plays upon all the violence that makes this play seem so contemporary. Measure for Measure Interactive Shakespeare Project offers an exceptional Teacher's Guide and other teaching resources, with an emphasis on performance. Richard III The Richard III Society's official website. Fascinating.
Romeo and Juliet: The Movie is an incredible site on the 1996 film.
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Just for Fun
Shakespeare Magnetic Poetry (slow load)
The University of Reading offers still photos and a QTVR tour of the New Globe Theater. The University of Alberta has three scenes available now. How about a virtual tour of the New Globe Theater? Also check out Clemson University's Virtual Reality Project. The TV Viewer's Guide to Shakespeare by J. E. Consolmagno is the best of the best! Originally in the April 1978 American Way, the inflight magazine of American Airlines. Pictures of Kramer's Student Projects Shakespeare Resources lists teaching units, reference works and films used in our courses. |
