A Selected Guide to Shakespeare on the Internet (Revised 19 February 2008)

Compiled by Hardy M. Cook
Editor of SHAKSPER

Launching Points:
Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/index.html>

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
<http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/>

Sh:in:E - Shakespeare in Europe
<http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/index.html>

Literary Resources - Renaissance
<http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html>

Early Modern Literary Studies: WWW-Accessible Resources
<http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html>

Resources for Researchers, Including Shakespeare Festivals and Companies
<http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/shakespeare/#Shakespeare%20in>

PlayShakespeare.com
<http://www.playshakespeare.com/links>

The Shakespeare Post: Shakespeare News from Around the World
<http://www.shakespearepost.com/>

Shakespeare in the Blogosphere: A Blogroll
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: The Blog (Terry A. Gray)
<http://mrshakespeare.typepad.com/mrshakespeare/>

News from Renascence Editions (Richard Bear)
<http://renascence-editions.blogspot.com/>

News on the Rialto (Michael LoMonico)
<http://shakespearemag.blogspot.com/>

I Love Shakespeare (William Sutton)
<http://blog.iloveshakespeare.com/>

DCBlog: David Crystal's Blog
<http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/>

Textual Studies, 1500-1800
<http://textualstudies.blogspot.com/>

Carnivalesque
<http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/carnivalesque/>

Shakespeare in the Arab World (Margaret Litvin)
<http://arabshakespeare.blogspot.com/>

PlayShakespeare.com: Free Blogs for Shakespeareans
<http://www.playshakespeare.com/news/472-news-stories/3611-now-online-free-blogs-for-shakespeareans>

Julian's Shakespeareances: Julian Lopez-Morillas's Blog about CS Festival's Complete Canon
<http://www.playshakespeare.com/jlm/>

Life and Globe Sites:
Shakespeare's Life and Times
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html>

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
<http://www.shakespeare.org.uk>
Discover Shakespeare (The Folger Shakespeare Library)
<http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=865>

The Shakespeare Authorship Page: Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare
<http://shakespeareauthorship.com/>

Shakespeare's Globe
<http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/>

Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA)
<http://www.sgc.umd.edu>

Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe (Pentagram Design Limited)
<http://www.sgc.umd.edu/pent.htm>

Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand
<http://www.shakespeare.org.nz/sgcnz.html>

Associations and Institutes:
International Shakespeare Association
<http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/442/446/>

The Shakespeare Association of America
<http://www.shakespeareassociation.org/>

The Shakespeare Society (New York)
<http://www.shakespearesociety.org/>

Shakespeare in American Communities
<http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/>

The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America
<http://www.staaonline.org/>

The Shakespeare Institute
<http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/>

The British Shakespeare Association
<http://www.britishshakespeare.ws/>

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
<http://www.shakespeare.org.uk>

The Open University Shakespeare Society
<http://www.ouss.org.uk/>

European Shakespeare Research Association
<http://www.um.es/shakespeare/esra/>

La Société Française Shakespeare
<http://www.societefrancaiseshakespeare.org/>

The German Shakespeare Society
<http://www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/en/>

Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries
<http://shakespeare.let.uu.nl/sgnveng.htm>

Shakespeare in Switzerland: Shakespeare at Swiss Theatres and Universities
<http://www.shakespeare.ch/index.htm>

The Shakespeare Foundation of Spain
<http://www.uv.es/~fse/fsemenuk.html>

The Norwegian Shakespeare Society
<http://www.shakespeare.no/selskap/info_EN.php>

Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)
<http://www.anzsa.org/>

The Melbourne Shakespeare Society
<http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bard/welcome.htm>

The Shakespeare Society of Eastern India
<http://shaksoc.bravehost.com/>

The Shakespeare Society of Japan
<http://www.s-sj.org/english/htmls/outlines-e.html>

The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
<http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/>

Libraries:
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
<http://www.worldshakesbib.org/>

Early Modern English Library Catalogues: A Working Bibliography
<http://www.wsu.edu/~whamlin/index.html>

The Folger Shakespeare Library
<http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm>

Library of Congress Online Catalog
<http://catalog.loc.gov/help/contents.htm>

The British Library
<http://www.bl.uk/>

COPAC: Major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland
<http://copac.ac.uk/copac/>

Oxford Libraries Information System
<http://library.ox.ac.uk/>

The Bodleian Library
<http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley>

The Huntington Library
<http://www.huntington.org/>

The Newberry Library
<http://www.newberry.org/>

The Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
<http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/>

Journals (Electronic and Print):
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
<http://lachesis.english.uga.edu/cocoon/borrowers/>

Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17450918.asp>

Early Modern Literary Studies
<http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html>

Early Modern Culture
<http://eserver.org/emc>

Renaissance Forum
<http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/>

Medieval Renaissance Drama Society Newsletter
<http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/mrds/mrds.html>

Confraternitas: the Bulletin of the Society for Confraternity Studies
<http://www.crrs.ca/Confraternitas/index.html>

Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
<http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/>

Early Theatre
<http://www.earlytheatre.ca>

Shakespeare Quarterly
<http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=542>

Shakespeare Bulletin
<http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/index.php>

Concordances, Editions, and Facsimiles:
Online Texts and Journals
<http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/texts.html>

Shakespeare's Works
<http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/works.htm#Individual>

EMLS Electronic Texts
<http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsetxt.html>

The Internet Shakespeare Editions
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Shakespeare_Sites/Texts.html>


Concordances:
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
<http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/>

The Works of the Bard (Matty Farrow )
<http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/>

Shakespeare Searched
<http://shakespeare.clusty.com/>

Open Source Shakespeare
<http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/>

WordHoard
<http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html>

The First Folio of Shakespeare Search-Form (OTA, U of Chicago, Charlton Hinman)
<http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/OTA-SHK/>

Editions:
Shakespeare's Editors
<http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/Editors/>

Project Gutenberg
<http://www.gutenberg.net/>

The Oxford Text Archive
<http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/>

Literature by William Shakespeare
<http://www.readprint.com/author-69/William-Shakespeare>

eBooks@Adelaide Works of William Shakespeare
<http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/>

Wikisource Works of William Shakespeare
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Shakespeare>

The Complete Literary Works of William Shakespeare
<http://william-shakespeare.classic-literature.co.uk/>

The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
<http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html>
<http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/>

Perseus Renaissance Materials, Including Clark and Wright's The Globe Shakespeare
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3ARenaissance&type=Any&lang=Any&lookup=shakespeare>

Craig's 1914 Oxford Shakespeare
<http://www.bartleby.com/70/>

Oxford Standard Authors 1905 / Craig Shakespeare Complete Works (1966 Reprint)
<http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Shakespeare__Works.pdf>

HamletWorks (Enfolded Hamlet)
<http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/>

Shakespeare, The Tempest, adapted by Beerbohm Tree
<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/projects/treestempest/>

Renaissance Electronic Texts
<http://www.library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/ret/ret.html>

Renascence Editions
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm>

Digital Renaissance Editions
<http://digital-renaissance.info/>

Early English Books Online
<http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home>

Literature Online (LION): Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (Part of Literature Online)
<http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index.jsp>

Facsimiles:
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
<http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm>

The Furness Shakespeare Library (Center for Electronic and Text Image)
<http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/>

Shakespeare First Folio toc (Brandeis University Special Collections)
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0018>

The Meisei University Shakespeare Collection Database Project
<http://shakes.meisei-u.ac.jp/e-index.html>

Rare Book Room
<http://www.rarebookroom.org/>

Folger Library Octavo First Folio
<http://shakespeare.folger.edu/other/folio/ShaF1B.pdf>

Shakespeare in Quarto (BL)
<http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html>

ISE: Facsimiles
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/index.html>

The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE)
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html>

Pedagogical Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica: Shakespeare and The Globe: Then and Now
<http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html>
Absolute Shakespeare
<http://absoluteshakespeare.com/>

Shakespeare Study Guide: Shake Sphere
<http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top>

Shakespeare Online (Amanda Mabillard: About.com)
<http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html>

Shakespeare Navigators at clicknotes.com
<http://www.clicknotes.com/>

PlayShakespeare.com
<http://playshakespeare.com/>

Folger Shakespeare Library: Teach and Learn
<http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2594&CFID=2916877&CFTOKEN=27e742c511c27699-275E6E67-1CC4-74E0-1C8053F0DA66EDCC>

Hamlet on the Ramparts
<http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/>

Triangulating Shakespeare (Steven Marx)
<http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/index.html>

Surfing with the Bard: Shakespeare Classroom Resource Center (Amy Ulen)
<http://www.shakespearehigh.com/library/surfbard/>

The Folger Shakespeare Library: Teach and Learn
<http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2594&CFID=4445620&CFTOKEN=cd578b03c6d10d11-5CFC25B7-1CC4-74E0-1CC16B7F35B09113>

Shakespeare Searched for Teachers
<http://shakespeare.clusty.com/search?v%3aproject=billy&v%3aframe=teachers&>

Shakespeare: Subject to Change
<http://broadband.ciconline.org/shakespeare/>

The English Renaissance in Context
<http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm>

Interactive Shakespeare Project
<http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/>

Research Sites:

Databases: General, Language, Background, and Miscellaneous:

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
<http://www.worldshakesbib.org/>

CERES: Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
<http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/main.htm>

The Oxford English Dictionary
<http://www.oed.com/>

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/>

DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
<http://deep.sas.upenn.edu>

The Shakespeare Portal
<http://www.theshakespeareportal.com/>

Explore Shakespeare's Words
<http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Default.aspx>

Think on my Words
<http://www.thinkonmywords.com/>

WordHoard
<http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html>

Shakespeare Database Project
<http://www.shkspr.uni-muenster.de/index.php>

Early Modern Chronology (Tom Dale Keever)
<http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/chronology.html>

The Early Modern Drama Database (Tom Dale Keever)
<http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html>

LION and Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (List of included texts)
<http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/shake/browse.html>

Non-Shakespearian Drama Database (Gabriel Egan)
<http://www.gabrielegan.com/nsdd/index.htm>

DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
<http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/>

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
<http://www.oxforddnb.com/>

Biographical Index of English Drama before 1660 (David J. Kathman)
<http://ShakespeareAuthorship.com/bd/>

The Shakespeare Authorship Page (David Kathman and Terry Ross)
<http://shakespeareauthorship.com/>

Shakespearean Stage History from 1660 Onwards: A Beginner's Guide (Brad Berens)
<http://www.berens.org/shakespeare/>

The Map of Early Modern London (Janelle Jenstad)
<http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/>

Titles from Shakespeare
<http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake.html>


Performance-Oriented Databases and Sites:
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
<http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html>

REED's The Patrons and Performances Web Site
<http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/index.cfm>

Touchstone: A Research Tool for Shakespeare Research in the United Kingdom
<http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/>

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive Catalogue
<http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqCmd=index.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqApp=Archive>


Visual/Performance Resources:
Shakespeare's Staging (UofCA)
<http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=134>

Designing Shakespeare (incorporating King Lear Performance Photographs Collection)
<http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm>

Shakespeare's World, includes Shakespeare and the Players and Shakespeare Illustrated
<http://shakespeare.emory.edu/index.html>

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs, 1870-1982 (Lesley Ellen Jorbin)
<http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/index.html>

An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Radio and Television
<http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/shakespeare/index.html>


Classic Research Resources:
Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary: 1660-1960 (John W. Velz)
<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SCT/index.html>

William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke T. W. Baldwin
<http://durer.press.uiuc.edu/baldwin/index.html>

E. A. Abbott's A Shakespearean Grammar (Perseus Project)
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0080>

Alexander Dyce's A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works (Perseus Project)
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0067>

M. W. MacCallum. Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background.
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0069>

C. T. Onions's A Shakespeare Glossary (Perseus Project)
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0068>

Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary (Perseus Project)
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0079>


Significant Works from the Period for Research:
The Geneva Bible 1599
<http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/geneva.html>

The 1559 Book of Common Prayer
<http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1559/BCP_1559.htm>

The Last Will and Testament of William Shakspere
<http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/shakspere/shakwill.html>

Holinshed's Chronicles
<http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/PrintedBooksnew/index.cfm?TextID=holinshed_chronicle&PagePosition=1>

Ovid's Metamorphosis
<http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html>


 
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