English 309-310
Course Resources

software resources are here

writing resources are here

Textual & Background Resources

Full texts online [for searching only]

• MIT Complete Works of Shakespeare
• William Shakespeare, First Folio (eds. John Heminge, Henry Condell)
• University of Victoria Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Electronic Literature Foundation Shakespeare Site
• Open Source Shakespeare [search by word or character]
  
• Concordances of Shakespeare's Works
  • http://www.concordance.com/shakespe.htm
  • http://www.theplays.org/ [ELF Shakespeare site]
  • http://www.shakespeare.com/FirstFolio/#search [searchable Web texts]
    
  • http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
    (In MIT site: select play, then "Entire play in one page," then use ^F to find word.)
  • http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/ [RhymeZone "Shakespeare Search"]
    

Literary and Cultural Background Sources

• Shakespeare's Life and Times Homepage
• Voice of the Shuttle's Renaissance & 17th Century Area
• 16th-Century English Renaissance Background [Luminarium]
• Norton Topics Online
• Life in Elizabethan England [sub-site of Renaissance, © Maggie Secara (2001)]
• Early Modern Resources [UK]
  
• Classical Myth [University of Victoria, Greek and Roman Studies]
• The Gutenberg Bible online (c. 1455)

General Background Sources

The Encyclopedia Brittanica online (1911)
Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973-74)
Google Scholar (academic version of search engine)

Libraries Shakespearean Resource Guides

• Shakespeare Audio/Visual Materials
  
• Print Resources & Websites
  

  UB Libraries Guide to Web Searching (tutorial & list of search engines)

Shakespeare Web Sites

Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet (includes A Shakespeare Timeline)
J. M. Pressley's Shakespeare Resource Center
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare's School in Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare's Stratford
World Shakespeare Bibliography Web Links
Interdisciplinary Shakespeare: A Multimedia Approach (Ide & Merriman / 19th-century analogues)
The Folger Shakespeare Library
Christie's Auction of First Folio (note Press Release on left)
Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare Magazine
The Shakespeare Authorship Page
PBS "In Search of Shakespeare" (2004)
-- note link to Works [multimedia]
British Library Treasures: Shakespeare in Quarto (also includes background & links)

Student Sites

The Electric Shakespeare (Professor L. Danson's Princeton site) -- note The Handbook
The Shakespeare Classroom (Dr. J.M. Massi)
Shakespeare for Teachers and Students
Surfing with the Bard
Shakespeare.com
Shakespeare Online
Bardware
Lynch Multimedia
Absolute Shakespeare
ShakeSphere (summaries, links)
SparkNotes (summaries, analyses, study guides,quizzes)
ClassicNotes [GradeSaver] (summaries, analyses, links, & useful self-tests)
PinkMonkey (summaries, analyses, study questions)
Chill with Will (ThinkQuest site for HS students)
Shakey's Place 3D Globe Theater (ThinkQuest site)

Novelty Sites

Shakespearean Insults
Randy's Shakespearean Quotations & Insults
Shakespeare Quiz [for tests on each play, see ClassicNotes)
Shakespeare Trivia (online game)

Images

Shakespeare English 310 Images (thumbnails, descriptions, links)
Shakespeare Illustrated [Professor Harry Rusche, Emory University]
Shakespeare Images Site [Professor William Kemp, Mary Washington College]
"What Did Shakespeare Look Like?" [Shakespeare.org.uk site]
Washington Post article (2001) on possible Shakespeare portrait in Toronto

A/V Resources

Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre -- an animated tour (requires QuickTime)
Miscellaneous audio & video recordings [Encyclopedia Britannica site]
Shakespeare films [Bardware site]
Smithsonian Associates interview with Kenneth Branagh, "Adapting Shakespeare for Film"

Writing Resources

Dictionaries

• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
• Oxford English Dictionary (UB only)
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary [use Search below]

Composition Resources

• English Composition Resources
• UGL Literature Resource Center
• The Writing Place at Edwards Learning Center
• University of Victoria Writer's Guide (includes glossary of literary terms)
  
• Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
  
• Writers' Workshop (University of Illinois)
• Better Writing from AskOxford
• Documentation & Citation Practices (MLA)
  
  

Page last updated: October 12, 2005
Send comments to: David Willbern