Shakespeare at WCU

Links

Reference

Print map of Elizabethan london
Map of Elizabethan London
- Detail: Bankside (South of Thames)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) good for etymologies
Elizabethan holidays
Metaphors and Figures:
- English emblem book project
- Gordon Collection of emblem books
Names from Greek and Roman mythology
The Tudor Drama (free ebook)

General/ Meta sites

Luminarium 16th and 17th century pages
Records of Early English drama (great searchable site for performances before 1645)
ERIC (English Renaissance in Context)
World Shakespeare Library (great resource for works published from 1968-2006; costs $60 annually)
Mr Shakespeare and the Internet
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare Resource Center
Shakespeare Online
Folger Shakespeare Library
PlayShakespeare:Free downloads, including audio and multi-language texts
The British Monarchs
The British Church
In Search of Shakespeare (PBS site has links to existing documents about WS's life and a list of the "players"
Renaissance Interactive
The Shakespeare Post (news about Shakespeare, including media releases, scholarship, etc.)

Topics

British History
Holidays
- Elizabethan holidays
Kingship and Patronage
- Machiavellli's The Prince

Sonnet 20 (Earl of Southampton)
Triumphs, Progresses, Pageants, Festivals and Processionals
Shakespeare's patrons
Florimène at the Court of Charles I: the Court Masque - UWashington

Elizabeth

James
- Luminarium's James I page
Science and the Marvelous
- Astrology
- Wonder Cabinet of 1599 in Naples
- Giambattista della Porta's "Natural Magick", 1584
- The Medieval Universe - Internet Shakespeare Editions
- Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine (National Library of Medicine)
- The Galileo Project - Rice University
- Elizabethan Cosmology - Bruce P. Hayden
- Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist - Museum of Science, Boston
- Alchemy Virtual Library
- Universities in the Renaissance
- The scientific Revolution
- 17th c. prose style
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Topsell's The History of four-footed Beasts and Serpents
Religion
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Guild Chapel
  - wall paintings
Gender, Sex, and Marriage

The Hammer for Witches
the Castlehaven scandal and 17th c. "libels"
Female anatomy acc. to the 16th century
Femina: Medieval Women's Index
Education of Girls during Shakespeare's Time
Life of Women in the sixteenth century
Gender & Family in 17th century England (Norton Topics Online)
- 17th century Women's Rights

Race and Otherness
- Martin Luther on "the jews"
- Shakespeare' Colors: An article about race in WS's plays
- Jonson's Masque of Blackness
- Gary Taylor on whiteness and blackness
Biography and Authorship Question
- In Search of Shakespeare (PBS site has links to existing documents about WS's life and a list of the "players
- Primary Documents related to Shakespeare's biography
- Contemporary References to Shakespeare as author or playwright
- Contemporary Non-literary references to Shakespeare
- Contemporary spellings and pronunciations of Shakespeare's name
- Shakespeare Fellowships Shakespeare Authorship site
- Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: Intro to authorship question
- Shakespeare biography quiz
Art, Humanism, Music
- English Renaissance MIDIs
- Classical MIDI : Renaissance - Raborn & Winters
- Early Music Midi Files - Curtis Clark
- Mulliner Book MIDI files - David Cooke
- English Baroque MIDI files - David Cooke
- Classical MIDI Archive: Composers born before the 17th century - Pierre R. Schwob
- English Baroque music (midis )
Dress, Food, Everyday Life

Shakespeare's Sources

Brief essays on the sources used for each play
Some links to primary texts
Plays in order (according to Oxford/ Norton) with sources
Latin and Greek sources
Commedia del arte

Shakespeare's Texts

Issues with Original Text
- Shakespeare in Quarto (allows you to compare different quarto texts)
- Facsimile of the First Folio
- Texts of the First Folio (and the texts that were left out)
- Chronology of Plays
- Hamlet Works (includes alternate texts, amazing search engine that allows you to look for commentary and actors, and just about everything else you need to know about Hamlet)
- Plays organized by degree of difference between folio and quarto (if any)
- Shakespeare's Canon and Chronology from William Shakespeare: A textual companion
Online texts
- MIT's Complete Works
- Bartleby's online texts (based on 1914 Oxford edition)
- Shakespeare resources (mostly available only at UVA's Etext center)
- Open Source Shakespeare (intersting ways to search and compare texts; uses 1864 Globe edition)
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive: the site to learn about textual editing and emendation (Hamlet)
- Hamlet regained: Discusses differences between Quarto 2 and Folio, among a host of other things
Shakespeare's Language
- Shakespeare's coinages and phrases
- Glossary (from AbsoluteShakspeare.com)
- Ian McKellen on blank verse
- scanning and variation
- Shakespeare's Editors
- Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare
- Writing about Shakespeare by Frank Kermode

Criticism Links

Shakespeare bibliographies (my undergraduates did these a few years ago)

Theater and Performance Links

Shakespeare's theatre (links on music, dance, other production values)
Shakespeare Festivals
A lecture on Elizabethan theatre, including Shakespeare, by Thomas Larque
Specific theatres
- Elizabethan map with theatres (interactive)
- Illustrations of theatres (Shakespeare's Life and Times)
- The Globe
  - drawing of interior of Globe
  - exterior of Globe
  - Shakespeare's globe (staging & performance links)
  - Staging at the Globe
- Blackfriars Theater
- Swan Theatre in 1596
Costume
- Sumptuary Laws
Censorship
- Isle of Dogs (a controversial play that created a problem with censorship)
- Act to Restrain the Abuses of Players of 1606
Actors
- In Search of Shakespeare: the Players (political and biographical figures)
- Robert Armin the comedian
  - Donald Sutherland in Make em Laugh
  - Shakespeare's actors

Genre and Plays

History, 2nd Tetralogy, and Henry IV
- The wars of the roses
- Henry IV in quarto
- My notes on Henry IV
- Lord of Misrule (wikipedia entry)
- Elizabeth's Tilbury Speech
- Andrews' Sermon at Richmond
- Isle of Dogs
  - Swan Theatre in 1596
- Map of Elizabethan London
  - Detail: Bankside (South of Thames)
- Quarto of Henry V
- Portrait in Whitehall of Edward VI (anamorphic)
- Jack Cade's rebellion (from Henry VI)
Comedy
- Commedia del arte
- The jig
- Kemp's jig (music) written by himself..
Tragedy
- Hamlet Works (includes alternate texts, amazing search engine that allows you to look for commentary and actors, and just about everything else you need to know about Hamlet)
Tragicomedy or Romance
- Masque Design
- Fountain designs by an associate of Jones
- Masque ballet
- Masque Guided Tour
- Clips of a recreated masque
- Ben Jonson Masque Costumes
- A PowerPoint overview
- Tempest 3.3 Antimasquers
- Tempest 4.1 Iris and Ceres (masquers)
- Caliban's Antimasque (by Kevin Pask)
- Inigo Jones
  - Queens House Greenwich
  - Banqueting House Whitehall (Interior Shot) and Another interior Shot
  - Marlborough House Chapel
  - Covent Garden Chapel
  - Bridge in Wales
  - Spiral Staircase and Tulip Staircase
  - Stage design for Florime
  - Set design for House of Fame
- Musical Analogies
  - Beyond the sea video
  - Mama Mia video
  - American in Paris finale
- Renaissance Music Composed for Shakespeare
  - Morley's It was a lover and his lass (w. male singers)
  - Morley's April is in my mistress' face

Teaching Links

Folger Teaching Resources (includes lesson plans, recordings, books, etc.)

Diversions and Surprises

Shakespearean Insult Generator
Gender Genie
3 minute Hamlet (fixed)
- text
- youtube
- Animaniacs do Yorick and MSND
Beatles do MSND
Playwright Game
Shakespeare biography quiz
Stephen Greenblatt (editor of the Norton Shakespeare) on Colbert Report
This American Life program on Shakespeare performed in prison
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare was a Black Woman (54 minutes)
- Lesson plan based on this program
Folger Shakespeare Library: African American Experiences (contains two segments: Perspectives and Shakespeare and the Minstrel Shows)

Presentations

Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 23-oct-11