Online Resources
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A resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the Globe Theatre.
The full texts of Shakespeare's plays can be accessed and downloaded for free via this site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The plays are broken down by act and scene for manageability.
This website includes a wealth of Shakespeare resources including study guides, lesson plans, numerous additional teaching materials, an interactive Teacher´s Lounge and Shakespeare Quarterly.
This website includes works for the student, scholar, actor and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet: scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare´s plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare´s life and works, and records of his plays in performance.
Actors, directors and theatre practitioners share the process of creating theatre at the Globe. This site includes activities based around specific characters in Shakespeare´s plays as well as a tour of Shakespeare´s Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare in American Communities is a national theater initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Shakespeare in American Communities is the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history. BSF´s 2008 production of The Winter´s Tale is part of this historic tour. On this website you will find information on the playwright, the Elizabethan period in which he lived and wrote, Shakespeare in America, and much more.
This website includes quotes, plays, sonnets, pictures, a timeline, facts about Elizabethan life and theatre, a Shakespeare biography and dictionary.
A formerly published magazine for teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, while the magazine is no longer in print the website is still active and includes a clearly organized online bookstore which links to Amazon.com.
This site contains a complete index of every piece of text viable for audition, performance, class work or workshop.
This is a collection of two sites: Shakespeare and the Players is a survey through postcards of the many now unfamiliar English and American actors who played Shakespeare´s characters for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences and Shakespeare Illustrated which explores ninteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare´s plays. Fabulous images!
This site presents an annotated guide to the scholarly (and not so scholarly) resources available on the Internet and also unique Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.