Links and Resources

Library Resources

• Connect to WCU library from off campus (to get access to databases, including OED)
• Reading sheet

General/ Meta sites

• ERIC (English Renaissance in Context)
• World Shakespeare Library (great resource for works published from 1968-2006; costs $60 annually)
• Shakespeare's Life and Times
• Shakespeare Resource Center
• Shakespeare Online
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• 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"

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

Shakespeare's Texts

• 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

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)

Critical Links

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

Authorship Question

• Shakespeare Fellowships Shakespeare Authorship site

Performance Links

• Shakespeare's theatre (links on music, dance, other production values)
• Shakespeare Festivals
• A lecture on Elizabethan theatre, including Shakespeare, by Thomas Larque

Individual Plays

• Richard III
  • Richard III Society
  • Play summary
  • Uses of history in Richard III
  • Richard III on stage and off
  • The war of the roses

Teaching Links

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