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A comprehensive index of Shakespeare websites

Absolute Shakespeare
An essential William Shakespeare resource, with Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems. Study Shakespeare with plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, pictures, timeline, trivia, the Globe Theatre and links.
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Poems and quotes by Shakespeare



  
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The Sonnets
The text of each Shakespeare sonnet with an analysis and paraphrase of selected sonnets.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Sonnets with text and commentary.
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The Sonnets
Project Gutenberg text.
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The Sonnets
Wikipedia entry.


RSC Complete Shakespeare Edition editors' blog.

Festivals. A listing of Shakespeare festivals around the world.
Mr Shakespeare on the internet.
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Biography of Shakespeare
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Digital Collections
A browseable, searchable digital collection of the first four folios. Miami University
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Internet Shakespeare Editions
The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience. To do so, they create and publish works for the student, scholar, actor, and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet:
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Open Shakespeare
Open Shakespeare combines literary criticism and the internet, to produce a completely free and open set of tools for appreciating the Bard.You can use the website to read all of Shakespeare, including brief individual introductions to each play, perform rudimentary statistical analysis, compare texts side by side, search and annotate any of Shakespeare’s works and much more …
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Open Source Shakespeare
Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.
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Shakespeare Oxford Society Homepage
Information, life, academic resources, articles.
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Shakespeare's will. PDF format.
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Shakespeare Online
Essays, analysis, complete plays, background.

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Shakespeare Resource Center
Collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.

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Illustrations to Shakespeare
Shakespeare Illustrated. Illustrations listed under artist and play.
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Criticism

Criticism
Criticism of the sonnets and poetry/General criticism/Criticism of individual plays. A listing from Mr Shakespeare on the Iiternet.
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Shakespeare and his Critics
Access to a wide and increasing range of Shakespeare related documents. All sources transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque.

Quotes

Shakespeare quotes with explanations - your favorite Shakespeare quote here. Enotes
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William Shakespeare Quotes
AbsoluteShakespeare.com
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Shakespeare Searchable Quotation Database
The Bard of Avon: Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Quotes by William Shakespeare
The Quotations Page

Live texts of the Shakespeare plays.

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Mr Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet. Admittedly, some of the resources are not so scholarly, but that's as may be. Usefulness to students (in the broadest sense) is most often the guiding principle. The truly un-scholarly sites are linked on the "Other" Sites pag. A popular  feature is a listing of Shakespeare Festivals.
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No Fear Shakespeare: Shakespeare's plays plus a modern translation.
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English.
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The Shakespeare Quarterly
Founded in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America, Shakespeare Quarterly  is a refereed journal committed to publishing articles in the vanguard of Shakespeare studies. As of 19 April 2010, submissions are double blinded. The Quarterly, produced by Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University, features notes that bring to light new information on Shakespeare and his age, issue and exchange sections for the latest ideas and controversies, theater reviews of significant Shakespeare productions, and book reviews to keep its readers current with Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.
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Shakespeare Oxford Society Homepage
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The plays


As You Like It
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The Comedy of Errors

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Hamlet
From Hamlet.org

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King Lear
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Love's Labour's Lost
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Macbeth
Enjoying "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare, by Ed Friedlander, M.D. A synopsis and overview.
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Macbeth
An annotated, online version of the play includes links to a glossary of terms, a summary of each scene, and a list of character descriptions.
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Macbeth etext,
Project Gutenberg.
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Macbeth
Searchable text of Macbeth, characters, scene summaries, themes and motifs.
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Macbeth
Theatre History
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Measure for Measure
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Merchant of Venice
Draft texts of the Folio and Quarto texts of The Merchant of Venice. The first surviving edition of The Merchant of Venice, the quarto of 1598.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Much Ado about Nothing
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Othello,
a list of scenes.
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Othello
Study notes.

Othello
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Richard the Third
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Romeo and Juilet
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Romeo and Juliet,
searchable text.
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The Tempest,
searchable etext.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Sonnets
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Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace.
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Touchstone
A project funded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme (BLCPP) to identify and map significant UK Shakespeare collections.

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Wikipedia entry on William Shakespeare.
 

Articles and essays on Shakespeare, background information, synopses, folios, websites

Articles on Shakespeare and theatre history.
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British Library
collection of 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.

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Early editions,
original quarto and folio versions of the Shakespeare plays.
The Internet Shakespeare Edition
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Elizabethan England
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Portraits of Shakespeare at The National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Synopses of the Shakespeare plays.
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Wikipedia entry on William Shakespeare.





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