Mr. William Shakespeare
and the Internet
Aims to be a complete annotated scholarly guide to the Shakespeare
resources available on the Internet. A good reference site which includes
many of the links listed in this guide.
Sh:in:E Shakespeare
in Europe
Links to Criticism: Theatre and Film: Renaissance: Shakespeare and
Literature: Music: Adaptations: Education: Tools: Shakespeare's Works
Sites
on Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Part of the Internet Shakespeare editions site.
Electronic
Shakespeare: resources for researchers
This site is intended as a guide to Shakespeare Resources on the WWW.
Early
Modern Literary Studies
An electronic journal on 16th and 17th century literature which includes
a well organized set of www links.
Voice of the Shuttle
A vast site covering all forms of literature. Within the English Literature
section, the option for Renaissance and 17th century literature includes
links for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Luminarium
Specializes in medieval, renaissance, and 17th century literature.
2. Works
Complete works
The
complete works of William Shakespeare
There are many complete works available on the web, most of which are
based on a generic text released to the public domain in the early 90s
called Complete Moby Shakespeare, developed by MIT.
Internet
Shakespeare Editions
Produced by the University of Virginia. Only a few texts available
as yet, but this a genuine attempt to edit the texts for electronic format
rather than using out of copyright texts. Complete with scholarly aims
and objectives. Includes links to useful resources.
Electronic Text
Center, University of Virginia
Contains The complete works of Shakespeare (Globe edition, 1866), Shakespearean
prompt books of the seventeenth century, The First Folio and early Quartos
of William Shakespeare.
First
Folio facsimile, Furness Shakespeare Library
Produced by the University of Pennsylvania Library. A high quality
facsimile reproduction of the Furness Shakespeare Library copy of the First
Folio. The Furness Shakespeare web page also contains facsimile reproductions
of other important texts from the period.
Shakespeare Centre Library - Stratford-upon-Avon
The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Furness Shakespeare Library
Touchstone
A new collaborative venture between the Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, and Birmingham Library Services.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Individual Texts
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet and Internet
Shakespeare Editions
provide a broad range of links to individual editions of the plays.
The following are particularly interesting:
The
Enfolded Hamlet
produced by Bernice Kliman. Allows readers to read the Folio or 2nd
Quarto texts of Hamlet separately, or as a conflated single text.
3 .Criticism
Links to criticism available only on the web and to historical criticism
transcribed for the web.
Current Criticism
Most of the current available scholarly criticism appears in moderated
electronic journals. These include:
Early
Modern Literary Studies
Contains articles on all aspects of 16th and 17th century literature
and culture. Also includes an impressive list of relevant WWW resources.
Renaissance
Forum
An electronic journal of early-modern literary and historical studies.
Shakespeare and
Renaissance Association [of West Virginia]: selected papers
An electronic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Renaissance literature
and culture.
Early Modern
Culture
"With Early Modern Culture, we have tried to create an on-line space
for something like the active and on-going inquiry of a good seminar. Hence,
what you will find at this site are four works-in-progress by major scholars
in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some
junior, some senior--working on similar topics. With this format, our desire
is to open a conversation, and make explicit how much all our work depends
upon such opportunities for careful reading, as well as critical (in the
best sense of that word) exchange. We hope you will find all of this work
fresh and stimulating; certainly, we ourselves are delighted with the labor
and generosity of our contributors".
Historical Criticism
JSTOR (only available at subscribing academic institutions)
A database of full-text periodicals searchable by author and keyword.
Relevant periodical titles for Shakespeare studies include: Shakespeare
Quarterly 1950-1994, Studies in the Renaissance 1954-1974, Renaissance
Quarterly 1967-1996, Modern Language Notes/MLN 1886-1994, English Literary
History/ELH 1934-1994, Representations 1983-1995.
4. Shakespeare in Performance
Stage history
Sites relating to the stage history of Shakespeare's plays.
Biographical
index to the Elizabethan theater
Biographies of all the people known to have been involved with theatre
in England between 1558-1642.
Shakespeare's Globe
Contains an online guide to the reconstructed playhouse in London and
an online archive of the history of performances at the Globe 1599-2000.
Centre for Research in Early English Drama | Records of Early English Drama (REED)
Library
of Congress: Federal Theatre Project
This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected
from the Federal Theatre Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured
here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts
for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged
by Orson Welles.
Feste:
database of productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre
An online version of the Feste database produced by the Shakespeare
Centre Library and hosted by the Performing Arts Database. Difficult to
use - it is advertised as a draft version - but includes useful information.
Current
and forthcoming Shakespeare productions
A list of current and forthcoming UK Shakespeare productions, updated
monthly. Includes links to theatre websites where possible. Also includes
Shakespearean adaptations.
Shakespeare
in performance archive
This is a record of Shakespeare productions and adaptations in the
United Kingdom from 1999 onwards. The information is taken from the lists
of current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions which are compiled each
month by the Shakespeare Institute Library.
Shakespeare on film
Individual films and screen actors often have their own websites. To
find information on a particular film or actor use a search engine such
as Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) or Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com)
to search by the film or actor's name.
British Film Institute
Includes an impressive film links gateway and a guide to the BFI's
collections and archives.
Poor Yorick CD &
Video Emporium
A specialist dealer in Shakespeare-related audio-visual material, and
experts on supplying information about the availability of audio-visual
Shakespeare.
Movie Review Query Engline
A search engine for film reviews with a keyword search option.
Internet Movie Database
A well established general film information resource.
Film reviews
A US based film review resource. Links to general film-related websites
which include information relating to Shakespeare screen adaptations.
5. Discussion Groups
SHAKSPER : the global
Shakespeare electronic conference
A long standing, moderated, discussion group with a broad membership.
Services include:
· email discussions and news postings;
· archive of previous discussions, searchable by keyword;
· a number of resources, including papers, directory of Shakespeare
institutions, and biographies of members.
Membership is free and no academic qualifications are required. Apply
to the editor by sending a one line email message 'SUB SHAKSPER firstname
lastname', leaving the subject line blank, to LISTSERV@ws.bowiestate.edu
6. Specialist Shakespeare Libraries
Links to UK and international libraries holding substantial Shakespeare
collections.
Shakespeare
Institute Library, University of Birmingham
The Shakespeare Institute is a research and postgraduate centre within
the University of Birmingham.
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
Shakespeare
Centre Library, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Shakespeare Centre Library is formed from the combined collections
of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Folger Shakespeare
Library, Washington
The world's largest specialist Shakespeare collection with holdings
searchable via Hamnet: the Folger Library Catalogue (http://shakespeare.folger.edu)
The
Furness Shakespeare Library
7. Biography and Authorship
The
Shakespeare Authorship Page
Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare
8. Illustrations
Shakespeare
Illustrated by Harry Rusche
Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century
paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences
on one another.
Hamlet on the Ramparts
Welcome to Hamlet on the Ramparts, 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
Centre
for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature On-line University of Kent
The catalogue contains details of over 36,000 British 20th century
cartoon drawings, with over 200 hits for Shakespeare. Most of the records
in the catalogue are based on original cartoon drawings held by the Cartoon
Study Centre, though some of the more recent records were catalogued from
daily newspapers.
9. Theatre
About British
Theatre
Well organized site with information on all aspects of theatre.
McCoy's Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
Performing Arts
Data Service
Contains links to information on theatre, music, and film and television.
Hosts Feste database (see above) and also the King Lear Performance Photographs
Collection.
10. Other writers
Thomas
Middleton Homepage
An ongoing project to provide Middleton's complete works in electronic
form
Christopher
Marlowe
Includes the complete works, plus articles and www links
Ben
Jonson
Beaumont
and Fletcher
Twilight Pictures aims to provide texts of all the plays that can be
attributed to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon in a format that best suits
and exploits the electronic medium, along with supporting materials, elaborate
background information, and textual apparatus for both the ordinary and
the academic reader.
11. Miscellaneous
Patterweb
Early Modern English dictionaries project.
Shakespeare Theatre Association of America
Shakespeare Association of America
International Shakespeare Association
The Fundacion Shakespeare Espana
The Shakespeare Society of Japan
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gessellschaft
Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries
Australia
and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
HAKESPEARE LINKS AND GENERAL STUDY SITES:
PLAY-SPECIFIC STUDY GUIDES:
HAMLET
KING LEAR
SparkNotes: King LearCETI: King Lear, (Tate Version), 1681 (NOT Shakespeare's play, but a later adaptation)
MACBETH -- The Best:
The Rest:
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
- Measure for Measure -- study guide from the Interactive Shakespeare Project at Holy Cross College
Amy Ulen's "Surfing with the Bard" study guide to Measure for Measure, with great links- SparkNotes: Measure for Measure
MIDSUMMER
- Mythology in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Amy Ulen's study site: great, though mainly for high school students. Bonus: a downloadable study guide
OTHELLO"Lee & Evans Notes" via AllShakespeare (student-authored site) RICHARD III
ROMEO AND JULIETTHE TEMPEST
SONNETS