Brief Guide to Shakespeare on the Web

[General Renaissance] [Shakespeare Editions] [Music Audio Visual] [Theater] [Gender Studies] [Issues & Questions] [Foreign Language Digital Libraries] [History Indexes] [Writing History] [Historical Maps] [Dictionary and Reference Works] [Documents and Resources

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and
ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our
faults whipped them not; and our crimes would
despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.

All's Well That Ends Well (Act 4, Scene 3)

A. General Renaissance Links

  1. CERES Digest II
  2. Literature Online: William Shakespeare (Addison Wesley Longman)
  3. The Voice of the Shuttle
  4. Renaissance Links at Dueling Modems
  5. MNs Creative Impulse. Renaissance Links
  6. English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
  7. Early Modern Literary Studies: WWW-Accessible Resources
  8. Literary Resources -- Renaissance (Jack Lynch)
  9. emc web resources (Early Modern Colloquium, University of Michigan)

B. Shakespeare Editions

  1. Craig, W.J., ed. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. London: Oxford University Press: 1914; Bartleby.com, 2000.
  2. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Jeremy Hylton). A MIT site based on the Moby edition.
  3. The Collected Works of Shakespeare (James Matthew Farrow). Use the search option to search the database for key words and phrases (Search)
  4. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (Terry A. Gray, Palomar)
  5. Shakespeare's Life and Times (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
  6. IPL William Shakespeare's Complete Works
  7. Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century
    located at the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
  8. The Furness Shakespeare Library SCETI Schoenberg center for electronic texts. Shakespeare's works can also be accessed at The Online Book Page
  9. Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799
  10. William Shakespeare, First Folio. eds. John Heminge, Henry Condell. Part of the English Renaissace Collection, Tufts College Persues Project
  11. The Classic Text: William Shakespeare University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee library special exhibits
  12. Interactive Shakespeare Project Measure for Measure (College of the Holy Cross, MA)
  13. The Plays of William Shakespeare Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)
  14. Shakespeare's Monologues
  15. Penn State's Electronic Classic Series. Shakespeare in *.PDFs
  16. Individual works in pfd format.

C. Music and Audio Visual Resources

    C. 1. Music

  1. Music 1293: Renaissance and Baroque Music (Gordon J. Callon, Acadia University)
  2. Classical MIDI Archives
  3. Curtis Clark, Internet Renaissance Band
  4. Mary Springfels. Music in Shakespeare's Plays (Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now, Encyclopedia Britannica Online). See the Audio Visual section for a selection of music and video clips
  5. C. 2. Poetry

  6. The Atlantic Monthly Online: William Shakespeare Sonnet 116
  7. Favorite Poem Project: Daniel McCall, Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
  8. William Shakespeare (Internet Multicasting Service) Listen to the sonnets!
  9. C. 3. The Plays

  10. Real Video clips available at Lawrence Danson, Electric Shakespeare (Princeton University). Follow the link to Shakescenes.
  11. Shakespeare at Wired for Books (Ohio University Telecommunications Center). Listen to Macbeth in RealAudio and watch performances of the Actors' Theater in RealVideo.
  12. F. Scott Fitzgerald reads Othello's speech to the Venetian senators (University of South Carolina, F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary)
  13. C. 4. Online Lectures and Discussion

  14. [REAL AUDIO 28.8] John Hart, Shakespeare and Tradition. Also refer to the audio section at EServe.org for additional resources.
  15. Donald Knuth, God And Computer Lectures at MIT (1999), Lecture 3. Language Translation
  16. Margaret Mead, Lecture: Creative Intelligence In Females (56 min 58 sec)
  17. Take a virtual visit to the Frontiers Of The Mind Conference or simply listen to the history and political science section (2 hr 12 min) of the June 15, 1999 conference. A list of other events is available at Cyber LC. Cybercasts from the Library Of Congress
  18. Shakespeare and Political Correctness (Thursday, December 03,1998 Talk of the Nation)
  19. Patrick Stewart talks about Shakespeare
  20. Niel Clancy, MD. Kipkeepers, Pox and Gleet Vendors: A Rapid History of Syphilis. Additional lectures available at the University of Florida Society for the History of Medicine: The History of Medicine Lecture Series

D. Theater

  1. Early Modern Playhouses in London
  2. Drea Leed, The Elizabethan Costuming Page
  3. Harry Rusche (Emory University), Shakespeare Illustrated
  4. Hilda D. Spear, The Elizabethan Theatre
  5. "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (REED, Records of Early English Drama)
  6. The WWW Virtual Library for Theater and Drama
  7. Shakespeare Globe USA

E. Gender Studies

  1. Rictor Norton, Gay History and Literature.
    Also see Enter Willie Hughes as Juliet Or, Shakespeare's Sonnets Revisited
  2. PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History

F. Issues & Questions

  1. The Great Vowel Shift (L. D. Benson, Harvard University).. 
  2. Richard Wilson, Shakespeare and the Jesuits
  3. Gerwin Strobl, "Shakespeare and the Nazis. (role of William Shakespeare's plays in Nazi Germany)" History Today May, 1997. Available at Findarticles. Also refer to Jan Frans van Dijkhuyzen, "A Universal German Classic: Shakespeare in The Netherlands during the Second World War," Folio 2.1 (1995)
  4. The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium [Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 2 (January, 1998)]
  5. Jessica A. Browner, "Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century." Essays in History 36,2 (1994)
  6. Also see recent articles in Renaissance forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies. For example, Janet Clare, "Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation"
  7. Brian Arkins, "Heavy Seneca: his Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies" in CLASSICS IRELAND 1995 Volume 2 University College Dublin, Ireland
  8. Connotations. A Journal for Critical Debate
  9. Did Shakespeare worry about copyright laws? View a discussion about copyright and the internet at  Openlaw: Eldred v. Reno (Berkmann Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Univ.)
  10. Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers (SRASP)

G. Digital Libraries in a Foreign Language

  1. Bibliotheca Augustana
    Selection of German literary texts from the 8th to the 20th century.
  2. MARABU
    Prints and documents from MATEO: Mannheimer Texte Online. Library of the University of Mannheim, Germany. See Execution Oder Todt Marien Stuart Koeniginnen aus Schottlandt. Erfurt: 1587.

H. History Indexes

  1. American and British History Resources (Rutgers)
  2. BUBL LINK: Libraries of Networked Knowledge
  3. Digital Librarian
  4. History Guide The Anglo-American History Guide located at the University Library, Goettingen (Germany) currently includes links to over 1300 records in its database. Go to the Virtual History Library to search for articles in e-journals.
  5. Horus' Web Links to History Resources
  6. Index of Resources for Historians
  7. INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
  8. Internet Scout Project
  9. Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Subject Guides
  10. Organization of America Historians: Links for the History Profession

I. Writing History

    I. 1. Writing Aids

  1. A Student's Guide to the Study of History (Steven Kreis)
  2. Tips for History Students (Ohio State University)
  3. Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College)
  4. Writing Historical Essays: A Guide For Undergraduates (Matt Matsuda and John Gillis, Rutgers University)
  5. I. 2. Citation Guides

  6. Citing Sources, Guide to Library Research (Duke University)
  7. Citation Style Guides. Syracuse University Library
  8. The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
  9. Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
  10. Michael Harvey, Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
  11. Turabian Style: Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries (6th edition)
  12. Turabian Samples for a Bibliography (Ithaca College Library)
  13. I. 3. Online Writing Labs (OWL)

  14. The National Writing Centers Association
  15. Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab (OWL)
  16. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (Chuck Gulford, Boise State University)
  17. The UMUC Online Writing Center

J. Historical Maps

  1. Saxton's Map of Hampshire, 1575
  2. Bodleian Library Map Room
  3. Great Britain Historical GIS Project (University of Portsmouth, UK)
  4. NLS: Digital Library (National Library of Scotland, Highlights of the Map Collection)
  5. Map Library Links (The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas). Also check the Historic Map Links
  6. Odden's Bookmark. Maps & Atlas Links
  7. Ordnance Survey Maps - Britain's National Mapping Agency

K. Dictionary and Reference Works

  1. The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD). Or go directly to the Patterweb 1999: EMEDD Search Utility
  2. Michigan Early Modern English Materials

L. Documents and Resources

  1. William Camdem, Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha (1615 and 1625)
  2. Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots (National Library of Scotland, Digital Library)
  3. Pope Sixtus V, A Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the usurper and pretensed Queen of England Montpellier Early Modern English Documents (MEMED)
Copyright ©2001Bill Mood

Created: 1 Jan 2001
Last Modified: 25 Feb 2001