Shakespeare Resources Note: This page is only a starting spot! You might also wish to examine the resources available more generally about the Renaissance. Stay tuned for some bibliographies and other materials. For Dr. Wheeler's Shakespeare Students: Did Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare's Plays? The Hundred Years War for understanding Shakespeare's History Plays The War of the Roses for understanding Shakespeare's History Plays Shakespeare in Films (a hastily thrown-together hodge-podge) Suggested Scenes for Shakespeare Performance in English 207 Downloadable PDF Handouts for Dr. Wheeler's Shakespeare Students You can download these PDF files to your computer and then print them out or read them using the free program Adobe Acrobat. If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you can download it here, for free. Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy from The Poetics Chain of Being Handout Chronological list of the Shakespeare Canon Ghost in the Renaissance: A Summary of the Beliefs by Raymond Nighan Henry VIII's Wives Performance Assignment (Directions) Richard III Murderlist: A Handy Guide to Homicide Rites of Passage and Character Development in Shakespeare's Plays Romeo and Juliet Question Sheet Royal Propaganda in English Renaissance Histories Shakespeare Research (where to get started at the University of Oregon's Library) Sonnet Assignment (Directions) Sonnet Information Standard MLA abbreviations of Shakespeare's Plays Tips on Playing A Dramatic Role Tragedy: (some thoughts on tragedy, both literary and mundane) Tragedy and Comedy: A Comparison Troilus and Cressida: Literary Ancestors for Shakespeare's Play Renaissance Texts and Ideas Pertinent to Shakespeare: Machiavelli and downloadable rtf copy of "The Prince." Tillyard and The Elizabethan World Picture Some External Shakespeare Webpages The Shakespeare Home Page (external site--a good starting point) Shakespeare's Complete Works (an external hypertext edition) Index to Shakespeare's Sonnets (external site includes a search engine) An Index of Shakespeare's Works Represented in Art (external site) Dr. Nighan's Shakespeare Page Elizabethan Insult Generator (a funny site that generates Elizabethan insults with the click of a button) Shakespeare Online Shakespeare Internet Works, life and times. Shakespeare Links list of other sites Surfing with the Bard: Shakespeare 101 Student Guide Guide for teachers, students, readers. Kind of cheesy, but useful. Elizabethan Drama and the Globe Theatre Compendium of Elizabethan practices for writers and actors A guide for theatre practitioners. Elizabethan Theatre Lecture notes and pictures by Hilda Spear at the University of Cologne. Fortune Contract Agreement between Henslowe and Peter Streete, who also built the Globe. Virtual Tour of the Globe Theatre Views of the reconstruction in London. Globe Theatre Site Research database for the Globe Theatre at the University of Reading.  Swan Drawing Image of the DeWitt Sketch copied by Von Buchell, only eyewitness drawing of an Elizabethan public theatre. Theatre Arts Resources Theatre History, World Theatre and Lecture Notes. Shakespeare's Life Shakespeare Resource Center Biographic information. Shakespeare Facts Biographic material, maps and festival information. Shakespeare's History Plays and Real History: The Hundred Years War The War of the Roses Monarchs of England and Great Britain (External link to chronological list of kings and queens). Searchable Online Complete Works of Shakespeare: Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Bard's plays, poems and sonnets online. Search the Complete Works (a slow but useful Australian site) Transcriptions of selected folio and quarto versions of Shakespeare's play Oxford Shakespeare Complete works and other writings from Bartleby.com Images: Shakespeare Illustrated Explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another. Swan Drawing Image of the DeWitt Sketch copied by Von Buchell, only eyewitness drawing of an Elizabethan public theatre. An Index of Shakespeare's Works Represented in Art (external site)

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