Shakespearean Links

General

"Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet" is a well-organized web index and resource page.
First Folio internet and web resources
Michael Groves maintains an excellent directory and links list of William Shakespeare (a subset of his excellent and accessible list of literature resources for the high school and college student.
Tools for Studying Shakespeare and Contemporaries.
Shakespeare Globe USA.
McGill University's Shakespeare Resources Page.
Encyclopedia Britannica presents Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now, with text, sound, and video.
The SHAKSPER "Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference" is an excellent mailing list for academics or artists, educators or intellectuals.
An excellent online study guide for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
RENAISSANCE forum, an electronic journal of early-modern literary and historical studies.
Early Modern Literary Studies is an electronic journal covering all English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and has an ever-growing supply of material on Shakespeare and his contemporaries (including a Discussion List Archive of the SHAKSPER list).
A beginner's guide to Shakespearean Stage History from 1660 Onwards.
Shakespeare Examined Through Performance: results from an NEH-sponsored teaching workshop at the Folger Library.
A commercial site offering a sample of the upcoming CD-ROM "Shakespeare In His World."
Shakespeare goodies from the Writing Company catalog.
Yahoo's list of links for William Shakespeare.

The Shakespeare Authorship Web Site is a good introduction to the rather secure assumption that William Shakespeare did, in fact, write his own plays.
Check out Will's digs at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Prof. Donald Foster has done some fascinating statistical analysis on Shakespeare's plays using his SHAXICON software.
"Project W.S." gives the results of an undergraduate special-projects course at East Tennessee State University investigating whether or not Shakespeare wrote the recently-discovered Funeral Elegy.
And if that doesn't convince you, then you may as well just go read more Christopher Marlowe.

MIT offers The Complete Works online.
You can also search all of Shakespeare for relevant or merely pithy quotes, either at MIT or at Matty Farrow's site.
The Internet Shakespeare Editions: refereed texts in Internet-friendly forms, under development at the University of Victoria, Canada.
For those with high-bandwidth links and big screens, check out these two lovely full-color facsimile texts of King Lear, both the second quarto and the first folio.
Home page for The Arden Shakespeare, your webmaster's favorite editions.
On a considerably lighter note, check out the Marx Brothers parody "A Night in Elsinore".
And on a purely commercial note, the last couple years' of Baker directors have favored as their research and practice texts those from the Arden Shakespeare.

ACTER (Alliance for Creative Theatre and Educational Research) has frequently visited the Rice campus, as has
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express.
Folger Library.
And, of course, this list of links just wouldn't be complete without The Reduced Shakespeare Company.
The Globe Theater is, of course, a favored spot: one of its partisans, Professor Andrew Gurr, visited us in 1997 to lecture on Hamlet and talk to the cast of The Winter's Tale.
Frequent BS Director Bob Ives now works (and directs Shakespeare) at The Briarwood School.

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