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COMPREHENSIVE SHAKESPEARE SITES
- RSC: Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford, UK)
- Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (U of Victoria)
- Shakespeare Online (Amanda Mabillard)
- Elizabethan Drama—Texts & Info (elizabethandrama.org)
SHAKESPEARE TIMELINES & CHRONOLOGIES
SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN PERFORMANCE (FILM & LIVE)
- Shakespeare’s Words: a Dictionary (David & Ben Crystal)
- Open Source Shakespeare: Concordance (George Mason U)
- Shakespeare Glossary by C. T. Onions (Perseus Project)
- Shakespeare Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt (Perseus)
- Bright & Beautiful English of Shakespeare (YouTube)
- Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (YouTube)
- Shakespeare’s Grammar (Bardweb)
- Reading Elizabethan Print – Folio, etc. (Drake)
- Long and Short of Letter ‘S’ (Babelstone, A. West)
BIBLES SHAKESPEARE USED OR THAT WERE IMPORTANT
- Bishops’ Bible of 1568 (Textus Receptus Bibles)
- Geneva Bible 1599 with Commentary (BibleGateway)
- Book of Common Prayer, 1559 (Justus Anglican)
- Great Bible of 1539 (Pre-Shakespearean, Henry VIII)
SHAKESPEARE’S FOLIOS, QUARTOS, MAJOR EDITIONS
- Shakespeare Texts w/o Notes (Folger)
- Open Source Shakespeare (George Mason U)
- Shakespeare 1623 First Folio (Folger Library) | Page # Key
- Shakespeare Folios and Quartos (U-Vic Internet Shakespeare)
- Shakespeare Folios & Quartos Collection (Shakedsetc.org)
- Samuel Johnson’s Shakespeare in 6 Vols., 1765 (HathiTrust)
EARLY MODERN TEXTS: REPOSITORIES
- ONLINE BOOKS — A GOOD STARTING POINT (U-Penn)
- Early English Books Online Database (EEBO/U-Mich)
- Early Modern English Drama Anthology (Folger Library)
- Elizabethan Drama—Annotated & Scripts (elizabethandrama.org)
- HathiTrust Digital Library (HathiTrust)
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature (Luminarium)
- Münchener Digitalisierungs Zentrum (MDZ)
- Renascence Editions (English Renaissance, Luminarium)
- RSC: Royal Shakespeare Company (see “Shakespeare’s Plays”)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (see Texts)
- Shakespeare Online (A. Mabillard) (see Sources)
- Shakespeare’s Library, 1875, Vol. 1 (MDZ) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
SHAKESPEARE’S BRITISH SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Hall’s Union of the two noble … families … 1548 (EEBO/U-Mich) | (Colenda)
- Shakespeare’s Holinshed: Chronicle and … Plays Compared (HathiTrust)
- Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland…. (Holinshed Project)
- Holinshed’s Chronicles … Vol. 1 of 3 (EEBO/U-Mich) | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3
- Mirror for Magistrates, Vol. 1 (HathiTrust) | Vol. 2
- Painter’s Palace of Pleasure, 1575 Vol. 1 (Gutenberg) | 2 | 3
- Queen’s Men Plays Shakespeare Used as Sources (U. Vic.)
- Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557. Wyatt et al. (HathiTrust)
- Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Collected Poetry (U of Virginia Library)
SHAKESPEARE’S EUROPEAN SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (Gutenberg)
- Cinthio’s De Gli Hecatommithi, Pt. 1, 1566 (MDZ, Italian) | Pt. 2
- Lazzi for Commedia dell’Arte Plays (dramateacher.com)
- Machiavelli’s Il Principe, Ital. (MDZ) | Latin | French | English
- Montaigne’s Essays, 1603 Florio trans. (Renascence Editions)
SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSICAL SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Theoi: Greek Mythology (Theoi.com)
- Homer’s Iliad, 1609 trans. George Chapman (Gutenberg)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1567 Arthur Golding trans. (Perseus)
- Plautus’s Comedies: Amphitryo, Asinaria, etc. (Gutenberg)
- Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, trans. Thomas North (HathiTrust)
- Seneca’s Tragedies (Gutenberg, Mod. Eng.)
- Terence’s Comedies (Gutenberg)
- Terence’s Comedies, (HathiTrust)
- Virgil’s Aeneid, trans. Twyne & Phaer 1573 (EEBO) | Dryden
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM & PHILOSOPHY INFORMATION
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (includes Classical, etc.)
- Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays (Luminarium/Renascence)
- Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Hoby trans. (EEBO/U-Mich)
- Montaigne’s Essays, 1603 Florio trans. (Renascence Editions)
C19 Criticism
- Coleridge’s Notes & Lectures on Shakespeare et al. (Gutenberg)
- W. Hazlitt’s Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (Gutenberg)
- Charles Lamb’s “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” (Bartleby)
- A. W. Schlegel’s Lectures on Dramatic Art 23-27 (Gutenberg)
C18 Criticism
- Samuel Johnson’s Essays and Notes (HathiTrust)
- Samuel Johnson’s Essays Republished (Matt Kirkland)
- Samuel Johnson’s Shakespeare (HathiTrust)
C17-C16 Criticism
- Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,” pg. 293ff (Gutenberg)
- Greene’s Groats-Worth of Wit…. (Renascence/Luminarium)
- Ben Jonson’s Timber, or Discoveries…. (HathiTrust)
SOCIETY & HISTORY LINKS
General Sites | History Sites | Biography | Politics & Government | Warfare | Religion & Folklore | Nature
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GENERAL SITES
- Shakespeare Resource Center’s Elizabethan Page (Bardweb)
- Life in Elizabethan England: a Compendium (Maggie Secara)
- The National Archives (UK History, Culture)
- World History Encyclopedia (WHE)
- The History of London (historyoflondon.co.uk)
- Map of London (AGAS, U. Vic)
HISTORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND & WALES
- British History Online (U of London)
- Shakespeare and History (ShakespeareandHistory)
- English Monarchy Timeline (Drake)
- Tudor History (Lara E. Eakins)
- The Wars of the Roses (Richard III Society)
- Harrison’s Description of England, 1577 (Fordham U)
- Kings & Queens of Scotland (Tudor Times)
- Kings & Queens of England & Britain (Historic-Uk.com)
BIOGRAPHY: PLANTAGENETS, TUDORS & STUARTS
- Bio’s of English Monarchs & Aristocrats (englishmonarchs)
- Queen Elizabeth I (Historic Royal Palaces)
- Books on Elizabethans & Elizabethan Life (Marlowe Society)
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & PARLIAMENT
- The History of Parliament (UK)
- History of Parliament (thehistoryofparliament)
- King James I: Basilikon Doron (EEBO/U-Mich)
- King James I: The True Law of Free Monarchy (EEBO/U-Mich)
WARFARE
RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE
NATURE, ENVIRONMENT & FLOWERS
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