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| Chain of Being | Macbeth | The Sonnet and Shakespearean Language |
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Comedy |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Sports |
| Controversy - Did Shakespeare
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| Elizabeth I | Religion
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| Elizabethan England (including daily life) | Renaissance |
(Also check links under Renaissance.) A good place to start your research is the award-winning site from the University of Victoria, Shakespeare: Internet Editions, found at
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/index.html
ISE: Shakespeare's Life and Times - This page from the above site explore the topics Shakespeare's life, the stage, society, history and politics, the background of ideas, the drama; literature, art, and music, and explores some of the plays.
Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance - This page from the above site lists links to other useful sites on Shakespeare, including sites for schoolwork, teachers, criticism, festivals, theatre companies, and the Renaissance.
The Shakespeare Resource Center
Sections include The Man, The Works, Play Synopses, Shakespeare's last will and
testament, Authorship Debate, The Globe, Elizabethan England, and a guide to the
language of Shakespeare. Includes some images.
Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now - This site from the Encyclopedia Britannica has sections on Shakespeare, The Globe, Biographies, the Elizabethan Context, and more.
Shakespeare Images - includes images from public domain, such as Shakespeare, theaters, characters, and actors in role.
Shakespeare Illustrated - "Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."
Go to the Alberta Learning Online Reference Centre, Grolier Online or World Book Online, and search for an encyclopedia article on your topic.
Significant Ideas of the Seventeenth Century
What Every Elizabethan Knew - Discusses The Divine Right of Kings, The Duties of a Prince, The Duties of the Aristocracy, and The Great Chain of Being.
The
Intellectual Background
"The Background of Ideas" discusses many ideas that influenced Shakespeare's
work. These include the medieval universe, order, education, new knowledge,
religion, and the supernatural.
Introduction to the Renaissance
King James VI & I on the Divine Right of Kings
Life in Elizabethan England -- Keeping Christmas
Gale - Glossary of Literary Terms - B -C
Aspects of Shakespearean Comedy
The Conventions of Shakespearean Romantic Comedy
As you Like It - This page from the University of Victoria discuss themes and comedy in the play.
As You Like It - short summary.
As You Like It Summary at eNotes
Twelfth Night - this page from the University of Victoria provides lots if information about the play and Shakespeare's use of comedy.
Twelfth Night Summary & Essays - Twelfth Night eNotes
Twelfth Night - short summary.
The Ironies of Happy Endings: An Introduction to Twelfth Night
The Authorship Debate
Brief discussion of three candidates as the "real" author of Shakespeare's work.
Includes links to other sites dealing with the debate.
The Shakespeare
Mystery: Who, In Fact, Was He?
"Investigates the controversial theory that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, a poet and intimate of Queen Elizabeth I, was, in
fact, the real bard." Contains debates, articles, perspectives from the
Stratfordians and Oxfordians, and links. From the PBS series, Frontline.
Frontline:
Much Ado about Something
Investigates whether Christopher Marlowe was the real Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Authorship - The Shakespeare Authorship Page Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Question - This site, created by a university reference librarian, briefly summarizes various claims and links to sites supporting those claims.
Eight Witnesses to Shakespeare - "Private book-lists, personal notes, and manuscript notations on the title-pages of early imprints, constitute important but overlooked evidence for the authorship and readership of plays and poems from the English Renaissance, including plays and poems by Shakespeare."
Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique
In Search of Shakespeare . Elizabeth I | PBS
Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan Period: a Brief Introduction
Life of Women in Tudor England
Life in Elizabethan England - a huge site detailing many aspects of everyday life.
Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan Period: a Brief Introduction
Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England
Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
COLLECTION: Medieval and Anglo Saxon Recipes
The
Intellectual Background
"The Background of Ideas" discusses many ideas that influenced Shakespeare's
work. These include the medieval universe, order, education, new
knowledge, religion, and the supernatural.
Henry Hudson
John Smith
Hamlet on the Ramparts is a "public website designed and maintained by the MIT Shakespeare Project in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library and other institutions. We aim to provide free access to an evolving collection of texts, images, and film relevant to Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost (Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5)."
Hamlet - Shakespeare Illustrated - paintings that illustrate scenes from the play.
16th Century Inventions 1500 - 1599 (also check 1600's) http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl1500s.htm Click on the links to get mor information about the invention.
The Saga of the Submarine - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsubmarine4.htm#Bourne
Oughtred -- slide ruler http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html -
Inventions and Technology (Describes inventions of the Renaissance) http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/University/Inventions/Inventions.html
James VI of Scotland, James I of England
Gale - Glossary of Literary Terms
Glossary of Literary Terms - Meyer Literature
Macbeth Assignment -- English 20
Enjoying Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Excerpt from Raphael Holinshed - the source Shakespeare likely used for the historical background of Macbeth
Macbeth: An In-depth Analysis (click on "Visit Site")
The Folger
Shakespeare Library Lesson Archive
Use the browser "find in page" function or scroll down to the
section on Macbeth.
History of the Monarchy > The Stewarts > Mary, Queen of Scots
Go to the Alberta Learning Online Reference Centre, Grolier Online, and search for an encyclopedia article on your topic.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Summary at eNotes
A Midsummer Night's Dream -- This page from the University of Victoria discusses the plot and characters of the play. Includes discussion of the basis for the comedy and humour in the play.
Midsummer Night's Dream - Discusses the aspects of comedy in the play.
Elizabethan Stringed Instruments
Renaissance - The Elizabethan World - Music and Song
Othello - Topics covered in this link from the University of Victoria include Discord and Disorder, Attitudes to women, Othello and the Stage, The Unities and Shakespearean Tragedy, Magic and Darkness, Religion and Suicide, A modern text of Othello, and Essential facts about the play.
Othello- Race, Place, and Identity - This page from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, gives information about the story Shakespeare used as a source for Othello. The significance to Elizabethans of the terms tragedy, Othello, Moor, and Venice are explained.
A General Study of the Plague in England, 1539-1640
Theatrical Companies in Shakespeare's Time - This site discusses the impact of the plague on theatre companies.
Life in Elizabethan England - Religion
An overview of Christian religions in the country. Links at the bottom to information about Calvinists, Catholics, and the Church of England.
Introduction to Virtual Renaissance - A wonderful site that puts you back in the time of the Renaissance. Ye Olde Transporter - By Character is a good place to start.
Renaissance Links - Include art, architecture, daily life, heraldry, law, literature, medicine, music, and dance, myths and legends, religion, science and math.
Renaissance -- links to arts, philosophy, science, music, daily life etc. - links include
arts (paintings, sculpture, architecture - music - theatre - military arts - heraldry)
sciences: (general - astronomy and mathematics - alchemy - medicine)
philosophy - religion
language
daily life - calendar - costumes, fashion - education
history, politics - money, economics
Life in Elizabethan England - a huge site detailing many aspects of everyday life.
Welcome to the Mary Rose "Come and explore Henry VIII's great warship and meet some of the crew in this website!
Specific Topics
In Search of Shakespeare - Dossier Timeline
Timeline of Shakespeare's Life
Links to Shakespeare Sites
Here are a few good sites; please note that there are many, many sites on Shakespeare. As always, you need to carefully evaluate the information found on web sites, as anyone can publish here.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - a very well-maintained, and extremely inclusive portal to all things Shakespearean.
English Language and Literature Resources (Shakespeare)
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Shakespeare Authorship Page
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Introduction to Theatre - The Elizabethan Stage - Section on Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Gale - Glossary of Literary Terms
Blank Verse and Iambic Pentameter In Shakespeare's Plays
Verse and Prose In Shakespeare's Plays
Renaissance: The Elizabethan World - Swordplay and Military Matters
Elizabethan Fencing and the Art of Defence
The Globe Theatre - A Study Guide
Introduction to Theatre - The Elizabethan Stage
Elizabethan Theatre - A Lecture - by Thomas Larque
Gale - Glossary of Literary Terms
Aspects of Shakespearean Tragedy
Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I: Against the Spanish Armada, 1588
This site is the property of M.E. LaZerte High School, Edmonton Public Schools. While you are most welcome to use this site, its organization, all annotations, and most activities are copyrighted, and permission must be sought for their reproduction. E-mail questions to C. Peterson, M.E. LaZerte High School Teacher Librarian, at cynthia dot peterson at epsb dot ca (replace the word "at" with the @ symbol; "dot" with a period). Last updated April 3/07