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In addition to the works, I have included a link to my own chronological listing of the canon, which contains some notes to the plays and issues related to the dating of the plays and poems. There are also links to the Lambs' Tales From Shakespeare (an orignal html edition mounted at this site). Near the bottom of the page I have placed references to Internet available Shakespeare bibliographies (which I call "lists," within which term I include filmographies, videographies, and webliographies).  Finally, as an aid to those of you in search of printed editions, I have included links to various book publishers and sellers, with special emphasis on those known for Shakespeare related materials.

If you are doing research on the "authorship problem," you will find the links on the Life & Times page.

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• The Canon. A chronological listing of the poems and plays. This is an area that will be developing to include materials on dating the works.

• The Classic Text: Traditions & Interpretations. An exhibit of certain Shakespearean texts with a discussion of the textual tradition from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Coined By Shakespeare, Merriam-Webster's guide to original Shakespean words.  A promotional site, but not without merit.

• Concordances to the Works of Shakespeare, by William A. Williams.  Surprisingly useful and complete.

• Fairy References in the Works of Shakespeare.

• Edwin Abbott's (the author of Flatland) Shakespearian Grammar, or An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the differences Between Elizabethan and Modern English (1879).

• OMNIPÆDIA POLYGLOTTA - a VERY ambitious scheme. You will eventually (? - if Frank lives long enough) be able to find the names of Shakespeare's characters and ancillary information about them here.  Its editor, Francisco López Rodríguez, has created a special index to Shakespeare Resources in the Omnipaedia.

• A Pitious Shakespeare Page. Synopses and related material about selected plays. Useful for brief biographies of several famous actors and directors.

• Plot Summaries, by Mike Cummings, along with many helpful links.

• The Shakespeare Database Project.

• A Shakespeare Dictionary by Stephen Sherman.  "...an extremely selective and personal dictionary."

• A Shakespeare Glossary (gopher) from SpinalTap. The same one (http) from wiretap.  Densely textual.

• Shaxicon.

• Hartmut Ilsemann.  Statistics of plays by William Shakespeare. An heroic effort, with an especially interesting section on word frequency distributions in plays written before and after the 1599 construction of the Globe Theatre.

• Synopses of the plays.  Not very user friendly, but helpful in a pinch. A user "top end" to these synopses along with Massi's study questions can be found at http://www.spinne.com/shakespeare/.

• Word Fequency Lists - lists for Hamlet, Macbeth and Lear compiled by students at Mt. Ararat High School.

The Shakespeare Apocrypha

• Brooke, C. F. Tucker. The Shakespeare Apocrypha Being a Collelction Of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed To Shakespeare (1908).  Contains the Preface and Introduction to Brooke's work, but especially useful for links to the Quarto title pages of the apocryphal works.

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• Courtesy of Amy Ulen, the new A Midsummer Night's Dream study guide Web site! Now including the free, downloadable PC study guide for the play.

• As You Like It:  Ian Johnston's lecture on the play: Variations on a Theme of Love: An Introduction to As You Like It, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students.

• The English Zone, a guide to study resources on Hamlet, Lear, Merchant, Caesar and Macbeth.

• Hamlet, a study site by Alex Pogrebinsky II.

• An Introduction to Hamlet, Ian Johnston.

• A Study Guide and Lesson Plans for Hamlet, from Seeger's Resources.  A very low profile connection to commercial products, and a useful guide.

• The History Plays: A Brief Note on the Historical Background to Shakespeare's First and Second History Cycles, by Ian Johston.

• Henry IV, Pt. 1:  Ian Johnston's lecture on the play:  The Foxes, The Lion, and the Fat Knight: Introduction to Henry IV, Part 1, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students.

• Henry V:  Ian Johnston's lecture on the play: The Ironies of Success in Politics: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Henry V, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students.

• King Lear: Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students by Ian Johnston.

• Macbeth: An Intoduction to Macbeth, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students by Ian Johnston.

• Enjoying "Macbeth".   "Warning: Macbeth is nasty. This page is nasty. I have a high regard for truth and I talk plain. If you want something nice, please leave now."  Only nasty in the scholarly sense. If this isn't an enticement to read this interesting page, I don't know what is. It includes lots links to Scottish history, tartans, and other interesting things.

• The Senior Edge Study Guide on Macbeth.  Many links and related articles.

• Yet another brief guide to Macbeth done through interesting java applets.

• The Interactive Shakespeare Project study guide to Measure for Measure.

• The Access Indiana Guide to Othello.

• Also from Amy Ulen, two remarkable guides: Shakespeare 101 and All The World's A Stage.  Shakespeare 101 is a general guide to Shakespeare and his language, All the World's a Stage is a guide to performance criticism.  Both are outstanding sites.

• Richard II. The Issue of Language: Introduction to Richard II and Hamlet, part of a larger series of lectures for advanced English students by Ian Johnston.

• Shakespeare: Chill with Will - Helping High School Students Learn to Love Shakespeare. Features include sections on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet & Macbeth with explanations, study questions and lots of pop links.

• The Shakespearean Homework Helper.  I don't have the slightest idea how anyone has time for this, or if it actually yields good (or any) results.

• SparkNotes.  "...written and produced exclusively by Harvard students and graduates...SparkNotes come from students studying for exams and cramming for papers just like you. "  (The ads are VERY annoying, but the content is good).

  All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry V Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII Julius Caesar King John King Lear Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth

  Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare's Sonnets The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter's Tale

• Study questions for various plays by J. M. Massi.

• Teacher's Guides to the Signet Editions:

  Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Much Ado About Nothing Othello

  Richard III Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest

• The Tempest: You Can Go Home Again, Can't You? An Introduction to The Tempest part of a larger set of lectures for advanced English students by Ian Johnston.

• A Study Guide to Troilus and Cressida by Diane Thompson.

• "You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  A lesson plan and study guide from EDSITEment, a product of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• A William Shakespeare Literature Quiz (with a specialized quiz on Romeo and Juliet).

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• The standard Complete Works sites are:

  •  in the USA, the MIT Shakespeare Homepage. The Complete Works from the Tech. HTML editions of the  works are laid out nicely in table format with a link to the original source text.

  • in Australia, Matty Farrow's  the Complete Works site, with a good glossary and an excellent search engine.

  These, and almost all the Complete Works sites are based on a very generic text released to the public domain in the early 90's called the "Complete Moby™ Shakespeare".  An excellent http source for this public domain text may be found at a site at Rutgers maintained by Eric Luhrs.  Look below to find an ftp accessible site.  Though there is little to be gained by listing the various sites where Complete Works collections may be found, here are a few in case traffic problems prevent access at the MIT or Australian sites:

  • The source for the Project Gutenberg texts of the Complete Works.

  • Complete works at the Litrix Reading Room--a quiet place for lovers of good literature...

  • A Complete Works site mirroring the contents of the MIT site but with a better, Excite powered search engine.

  • Another edition of the Complete Works mounted by the Pasadena Shakespeare Company.

  • The Great Books Index. Well laid out index to basic versions of the plays.

  • Another nearly complete set of the standard Moby™ texts (the basic, public domain texts), from Bibliomania, including a basic search tool.  The layout is the standard, awkward html, the advertising extremely annoying, the integrated search tool useful.

  • The University of Michigan has provided the Complete Works at the Internet Public Library.

  • A partial mirror of the MIT site from New Mexico.

  • Yet another collection mounted at Carnegie Mellons's English Server, more interesting for its links to plays by other Elizabethan authors.

• The 1866 Globe Edition from the University of Virginia.  The Globe edition seems to have been the source for the aforementioned "Complete Moby Shakespeare".

• The 1914, W. J. Craig, Oxford Edition of the Complete Works (37 plays, 154 sonnets), with an excellent search tool which finds words to Act/Scene divisions.

• The First Folio and Early Quarto editions of the Works, again, from the University of Virginia etext archive.

• The University of Virginia e-text center has released the Complete Works available as individual editions for the Microsoft EBook Reader (and as html versions as well).

• The Complete Plays in a frames format that allows convenient jumping to the various sections of each play. Assembled by Robert Hanson.  Frames makes the text generally more navigable, but nothing else has been added to enhance the readability of the texts and there is no search engine.

• A Facsimile Edition of the First Folio held by the Furness Shakespeare Library.  Only the prefatory material and Lear and Macbeth are as yet available.

• HarperAudio's Internet Multicasting Service. Audio rendering of the Sonnets, parts of Much Ado About Nothing, and Julius Caesar by great English actors accompanied by period music (au, gsm, and ra formats are available). If you have the new media player from Microsoft, the au format plays with very high quality.

• HTML markup of many of the plays, using style sheets, but otherwise unre-html-markable.

• Lynch Multimedia adaptations for kids.  Six plays are planned, but only Macbeth and Hamlet are available.  The multimedia part is also "planned", since it is as yet unavailable.

• A beautiful (but slow, owing to the server, one supposes) set of PDF versions of the plays (requires Acrobat Reader software) with Italian translations of many.

• An English only (and quicker) alternative to the above PDF versions, from Oberon publishing.

• The most exciting development for Shakespeare texts on the Internet is the University of Victoria's Internet Scholarly Editions of the Works.

  "The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet." 

• The Plays for Teachers,  basic links to many of the plays with ancillary links to a small amount of teaching materials, from the Access Indiana Teaching and Learning Center.

• SGML downloadable versions of the plays from OCLC.

• Shakespeare on Line, by Russell J. Meyer of Emporia State. A collection of several of the plays especially useful because organized by text | outline | study questions | Lectures. The texts are the  common distribution, but the value of this site are the insights provided by Dr. Meyer.

• Selected plays with synopses from Georgia Tech.

• Facsimile editions of Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century  edited by G. Blakemore Evans as Published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
  
  The promptbooks fall into 3 categories:

Three pre-restoration promptbooks found in a copy of the First Folio at the University of Padua and therefore known as the "Padua" promptbooks:

Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Winter's Tale

Two from c. 1672 connected with the Hatton Garden Nursery and therefore known as the "Nursery" promptbooks:

Comedy of Errors
Midsummer Night's Dream

The following plays from a copy of the Third Folio belonging to the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin (c. 1676-85) and therefore known as the "Smock Alley" promptbooks:

Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
Henry VIII
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Twelfth Night
The Comedy of Errors
The Winter's Tale

• The Classroom Electric Shakespeare Showcase edition of several of the works with study questions and a glossary.

• The University of Virginia provides an outstanding etext archive, including the following unique Shakespeare resources:

  • A transcription of the 1866 Globe Edition of the Plays.

  • The First Folioand Early Quartos.

  • Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century.

  Each of the above sources has its own useful search tool.

• Various Works based on the Oxford Text.

• The Works of William Shakespeare--14 of them so far.

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• Original Source Files. Most of the collections available on the Internet are based on the public domain, ascii versions of the texts freely available over the Internet. These texts in their original form are known as (The Complete Moby Shakespeare editions). Note that this is an ftp site. The upper level menu at this site will lead you to the complete Project Gutenburg etexts.  Another (http) source for the public domain text (known  as the "Complete Moby™ Shakespeare") is a site at Rutgers maintained by Eric Luhrs.

• Original Source Files. Wiretap's ftp site for the source texts.

• Gopher access to the Complete Works.

• Spinaltap's gopher access to the Complete Works.

• A unique set of texts have been rendered by Dr. Michael Best as part of the Shakespeare By Individual Studies program. HTML texts for A Midsummer Nights Dream, Henry IV Pt. 1, As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest are included at this site. They are unique because the line numbers have been keyed to the Shakespeare Signet Classic editions.

• The Shakespeare Stack Project -- an archive of MacIntosh binhexed files of Mac HyperCard Stacks editions of the plays.

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All's Well That Ends Well

• All's Well That Ends Well Edited with Notes, BY William J. Rolfe, AM., 1881.

The Comedy of Errors

• Thomas Hull's adaptation of The Comedy of Errors in HTML and SGML versions.

Hamlet

• The Enfolded Hamlet. Jump to the play or its various enfolded versions from the introduction.

• The 1603 'bad quarto' edition of Hamlet from the University of Virginia.

• The 1604 quarto edition, also from UV.

• The 1623 First Folio text of Hamlet from UV.

• A Facsimile edition of the First Folio version of The Tragedy of Hamlet from the Furness Shakespeare Library.

• From The Hamlet Page.

• From The Prince of Denmark Page.

• A site dedicated to Ophelia, and yet another Ophelia page.

• United by Tragedy Constantin Stanislavsky's and E. Gordon Craig's Russian Hamlet.   This is not an edition of the play but rather an exhibition at the Moscow Art Theater Museum.

Henry V

• A Facsimile edition of the 1619 (dated 1608) 3rd Quarto edition of Henry V from the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Julius Caesar

• The Julius Caesar site (Tufts) including the Furness Variorum edition of Julius Caesar (text, full commentary and most of the appendices); the Kittredge modernized text and commentary; the Skeat Edition of North's Plutarch;and various related student projects.

• A Real Video version of Julius Caesar, co-produced by  Actors' Theatre, Davis Discovery Program, and Government Television (GTC-3) of Columbus, Ohio.  The play is in two parts:

  Part one (approx. 1 hr.)
  Part two (approx. 1 hr.)

King Lear

• An extraordinary presentation of a scanned reproduction of the 1619 quarto of King Lear from the University of Pennsylvania. This is a must see site. This is the web at its best, allowing the student to examine a primary document in its original condition, and not just a transcription. Thanks to UP for going to the great trouble and expense of mounting this exhibit. At this same site you may compare a similar reproduction of the 1623 edition.

• Actors' theater of Sonoma County present an Internet simulcast of King Lear. A beautiful site and an idea whose time has come?

• King Lear. With selected audio speeches, plot summary, character sketches, questions & answers, a brief Shakespeare biography, and a section on the Globe Theater.

• King Lear (incorporating Q1 and F1) with linked glossary, is presented by Dr. Larry A. Brown.  Dr. Brown has included two very interesting introductory articles, "Aristotle on Greek Tragedy," and "Tragedy After Aristotle." 

• Web Resources for William Shakespeare's King Lear, maintained by Eric Luhrs, is a fine, comprehensive site to begin research on this play.

Macbeth

• Macbeth Plugged, an annotated, on-line version of the Shakespearean tragedy relying heavily on Java.

• The Roanoake Macbeth Page.

• A very interesting version of the play, with analysis, delivered via a java application.

Measure for Measure

• The Interactive Shakespeare Project study guide to Measure for Measure.

The Merchant of Venice

• Online classics presents the Royal National Theatre's production of The Merchant of Venice in streaming windowsmedia format. "The film of this highly acclaimed production co-directed by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt features the original cast."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

• A Midsummer Night's Dream.  "The web resources consist of the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and an extensive commentary providing summaries of, excerpts from and references to secondary literature on the play. The Dream site can be read in many ways, either >

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  interlinked commentary, by reading the play linearly and reading comments as you are interested, or in a continual play between Shakespeare's text and the comments."

• A Midsummer Night's Dream part of Amy Ulen's outstanding site Surfing With The Bard.

• An edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream from faerieland at Texas A&M (!).

• Another html edition of MND by J. B. Siedlecki.

• A VRML Midsummer Night's Dream - a work in progress.  A Sample Performance of the VRML Dream..

Much Ado About Nothing

• A Facsimile edition from the Second Folio.

Othello

• Honest Iago, an extremely well done Internet video, offering Othello in 11 minutes, directed by  Natalie Lingner and Sylvia Sya. Quicktime and Real versions are offered at 28.8, 56 and broadband speeds.

Richard III

• The wonderful new html Richard III from the Richard III Society, complete with historical notes and references and links to On-Line Reference Books for Medieval Studies. An outstanding edition! Not complete as of this writing, but soon to be completed.

• Colley Cibber's Richard III as presented by the Richard III Society. Includes interesting editor's notes and prefatory material. A very useful primary source contribution.

The Tempest

• A University of Texas rendition of The Tempest.

Twelfth Night

• Robert Stockton's presentation of Twelfth Night.

• Novak, Peter, et al. (Yale).  Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: An American Sign Language Translation, part of a growing work to fully translate the play, with several QuickTime Videos, historical images, and links to ASL resources.  Unfortunately, a true streaming format for the videos was not chosen, so download times are long.

Two Gentlemen of Verona.

• An independent html edition of Two Gentlemen.

The Winter's Tale

• John Marwick's  production web site with the text and lots of links to other Winter's Tale sites.

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• Project Gutenberg Complete Works in German.  For a guide to resources in German see Die Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft.

• PDF versions of all the plays in English, and many in Italian (William Shakespeare - L'opera omnia).

• Hamlet translated into Chinese by Robert Tsou.

• Hamlet, in Russian.

• Macbeth translated into Chinese by Joe Tsou.

• Shakespeare in Japan.  While works have not yet been included (May '99), There is a chronology of Shakespeare in Japan, a fascinating essay, and a useful bibliography.

• Shakespeare vertaald: Op deze pagina vindt u uitvoerige fragmenten van alle vertaalde 37 toneelstukken en 5 poëzie-teksten.

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• A facsimile edition of the Sonnets.

• A Facsimile of the 1640 Benson edition of Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. from the Furness Shakespeare Library.

• The recently attributed (and controversial) Funeral Elegy (from MIT).

• Another site for text to the Funeral Elegy.

• Project W.S. A lively discussion and bibliography related to the Funeral Elegy.

William Luddy's is producing a spectacular edition of the Non-dramatic poetry .   The site has changed, been available, disappeared, and reappeared again.  It is spectacular and beautiful: a great example of what can be done to add artistic value to an author's work over the web.  Included in the site are:

• Venus and Adonis
• The Sonnets
• A Lover's Complaint
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Passionate Pilgrim

• SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (1609) RENAISSANCE ELECTRONIC TEXTS  A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions. Ed. Hardy M. Cook and Ian Lancashire

• A University of Toronto edition of selected Shakespeare poetry.

• The Sonnets in PDF format

• Though mounted at a site devoted to Baconian authorship, here is a nice rendering of the Sonnets.

• A 'transvalued' Sonnet 73.

• John Gale's Search Engine for the Sonnets will return the entire text of the Sonnet(s) in which the key term(s) appears. Very well done.

• Searchable Index Of Shakesperian Sonnets and Other Poetry

• Hecht, Anthony. The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex and History, Antioch Review, 3/97.

• Daw, Kurt.  The Scansion Guide: The Down and Dirty Guide to Scanning Verse: Some Hints to Help with Sounding Shakespeare's Words.

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• Bartlett's Famous Shakespearean Quotations. Not really part of the Works, but where else does this one belong? A very nice site and just the thing if you are looking for that bon mot.

• The Quotation Page--quotations from the works of William Shakepseare.

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• BBC.  King Lear. A History of Notable Performances.

• Barbara Paul's unique and interesting list of books and plays with titles derived from Shakespeare.  Another similar resource is a brief but possibly useful list of editions and adaptations on Shakespeare, from Ohiolink.

• A similar review library from Microsoft's Cinemania On-line. You can search for bios on current Shakespeare film actors, and lots more.

• Film.com - This is a link to the A-Z film review guide. Only current films will be found here, such as the '93 Branaugh Much Ado, the dubious '95 Parker Othello, and Locraine's Richard III, also of '95.

• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a fantastic, fully searchable archive of films and teleplays.  A search on William Shakespeare yields hundreds of  hits.  Each hit includes very full information about the film/teleplay, in many cases also including a plot summary.

• A project called Literary Detectives is attempting to find all the extant quartos of the works. Their "Armchair Catalog" may be of interest.

• The Mountain Heritage High School Shakespeare Society Home Page contains information about the school's Shakekspeare Gardens, a comprehensive list of links to Shakespeare Gardens online, and a complete list of the plants mentioned in Shakespeare's works.

• The Plays that became films.

• Shakespeare's Monologues.  An arbitrary list with texts, divided into male and female roles.

• Joseph H. Huebner has compiled a book list on the topic: Shakespeare In Performance.

• Shakespeare on Film, from the Library of Congress.

• Shakespeare y el Cine, Shakespeare in the Spanish language cinema.

• From the Library of Congress, a videography of Shakespeare on Film and Television

• Shakespeare Spinoffs: A Bibliography Arranged by Source Play. Part of the SHAKSPER listserv archive via EMLS.

• Shakespeare, the Character: A Bibliography. Part of the SHAKSPER listserv archive via EMLS.

• The Biographical Index to the Elizabethan Theater:  all people known to have been involved with theater in England between 1558 and 1642.

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• The Amazon On-line Bookstore.  Search a catalog of over 2.5 million titles.

• The Arden Shakespeare editions.

• Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

• Blackwell's On-Line Book Shop.

• The Cambridge University Press, especially the World Shakespeare Bibliography on CD-ROM, and The Cambridge School Shakespeare.

• Five Star Publications, note especially their 60-minute Shakespeare series.

• The Folger Library, responsible for the widely distributed Washington Square editions of the works.

• IDG Books, publishers of the "Dummies" series, as in Shakespeare for Dummies.

• International Thomson Publishing.

• Macmillan USA.

• Nelsons.

• Oxford University Press London, Oxford University Press USA (with a searchable database), Oxford University Press Korea.

• Penguin Books. Find information on titles from Penguin, Dutton, Signet, Viking or Topaz.

• Prentice-Hall.

• Routledge.

• Simon & Schuster.

• W. W. Norton.   See specially their new Greenblatt Norton Shakespeare, based on the Oxford text,  and its companion Norton Shakespeare Workshop CD, edited by Mark Rose.

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