Shakespeare

This page:
General Pages | Shakespeare Text Archives | Shakespeare Pedagogy | Authorship: Shakespeare the Man | Shakespeare Online Discussion | Shakespeare News | Shakespeare Journals and Associations | Shakespeare Libraries | Shakespeare in Performance | Shakespeare Illustrations | Shakespeare Fun and Games

General Pages

• Internet Shakespeare Editions - Fully edited plays and poems; facsimiles of the earliest printed quartos and folios; other information about Shakespeare's life and works
• Shakespeare and His Critics - Public domain works of criticism [shakespearean.org.uk]
• Shakespeare im Internet / Shakespeare on the Internet - Long, but carefully selected list of links (German Shakespeare Association, page in English however)
• Shakespeare Resource Center (bardweb.net)
• Shakespeare Web
• Sher's Shakespeare Index - Links are sorted into categories, which link to a search engine
• Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
• Touchstone - If you're in the U.K., this site will help you with all your Shakespearean needs: find library resources, conferences, lectures, productions, and associations

Shakespeare Text Archives

• Folger Digital Texts - Presents the carefully edited texts that have been the hallmark of the printed editions published by the Folger Shakespeare Library. No notes, however.
• The Collected Works of Shakespeare (Sydney University, Australia)
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Texts available, but not a search engine (MIT)
• Open Source Shakespeare - Full texts, search engine, concordance
• Oxford Shakespeare - 1914 edition edited by W. J. Craig (Bartleby)

First Folio:

• First Folio - Digital copy from the British Library

Shakespeare Pedagogy

• Education at the Folger (Folger Shakespeare Library):
• Programs for Kids and Families
• Programs for Students
• Resources for Teachers - Ideas from teachers
• Podcasts and Recordings, including the series "Shakespeare Unlimited"
• Illuminating Shakespeare - Essays on many topics having to do with Shakespeare (Oxford University Press)
• Shakespeare High - Study guides for students; discussion (includes the former site, Surfing with the Bard)

Authorship: Shakespeare the Man

• Shakespeare Documented - "The largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter" (Folger Shakespeare Library, Bodleian Libraries, National Archives [U.K.])
• Shakespeare Authorship Page - Dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
• Shakespeare's World - "Transcribe handwritten documents by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and help us understand his life and times. Along the way you'll find words that have yet to be recorded in the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, and which will eventually be added to this important resource."
• OxFraud - "Why The 17th Earl of Oxford did not write, contribute to or have any connection with the work of William Shakespeare"

Shakespeare's Knowledge and Vocabulary:

• A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology
• Shakespeare Glossary by C. T. Onions
• Shakespeare's Words - By linguists David and Ben Crystal

Shakespeare Online Discussion

• humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare - Usenet newsgroup

Shakespeare News

• The Shakespeare Standard - "Shakespeare news, performance, scholarship, education, and more"

Shakespeare Journals and Associations

• British Shakespeare Association - Web site has a nice section of news
• International Shakespeare Association
• JSTOR Understanding Series - Criticism of Shakespeare's works, British literature, and the King James Bible
• Shakespeare Association of America
• Shakespeare - Journal started by Taylor and Francis in 2005
• Shakespeare Bulletin - Specializing in performance and film criticism
• Shakespeare Magazine is aimed at teachers. News on the Rialto has updates on theatre, film, conferences, web sites, etc.
• News on the Rialto Blog - The magazine is on hiatus, but you can still read the blog
• Shakespeare Newsletter - Published by Iona College
• Shakespeare Quarterly - Published by the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Shakespeare Studies - Published annually by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Shakespeare Survey - Published annually by Cambridge University Press
• Upstart Crow - Published by Clemson University

Shakespeare Libraries

• Birmingham Shakespeare Library
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. - An amazing collection devoted to Shakespeare and his times
• Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
• Folgerpedia - "Folgerpedia is the Folger Shakespeare Library's collaboratively-edited encyclopedia of all things 'Folger.' Articles address each topic as it relates to the Folger and the Folger collection"
• Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library - Early editions of Shakespeare and his sources, many of the available online (University of Pennsylvania)
• Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-Upon-Avon (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
• Shakespeare Institute Library, Stratford-Upon-Avon (University of Birmingham)
• Shakespeare-Forschungsbibliothek, München, Germany

Shakespeare Bibliography

• World Shakespeare Bibliography - "The most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present" (Subscription required)

Shakespeare in Performance

• Shakespeare in Performance - Database of productions (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
• Shakespeare and the Players - Postcards documenting actors and performances from c. 1880-1914

Globe Theatre:

Shakespeare's theatre has been rebuilt in Southwark, London, very close to its original location

• Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - Official site
• Shakespeare and the Globe (University of Reading)
• Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre (Encyclopædia Brittanica)
• Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project - Putting online the papers of two of Shakespeare's contemporaries in the theatre world, Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn

Other Theatres:

• Royal Shakespeare Company - Performing in Stratford, London, and elsewhere

Shakespeare Festivals:

• Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland
• OSF's production history of Shakespeare's plays
• California Shakespeare Festival, Orinda
• Statford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario

Shakespeare on Film and Video:

• Poor Yorick Shakespeare Multimedia Catalogue (Bardcentral.com)
• Shakespeare on film and television - Compiled ca. 1987 (Library of Congress)
• Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio - Database (British Universities Film & Video Council)

Shakespeare Illustrations

• Shakespeare Illustrated (Harry Rusche, Emory University)
• Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare

Shakespeare Fun and Games

• Shakespeare Insult Server - Make your own insult using Shakespearean language and e-mail it to someone you love. (E-mail no longer operational from this site.)
• Titles from Shakespeare - Novels, films, etc. named for lines in Shakespeare's works