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Use FUSE to search for more web resources. It should be your first point of access to useful sites. Try using Shakespeare in the search square to find useful resources. FUSE can be accessed from home at
Shakespeare life and times
The Royal Shakespeare Company has information about the life of Shakespeare.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: A resource for Shakespeare's plays, quotes, biography, the Globe Theatre, Film, Glossary, etc.
Shakespeare and the Renaissance sites
This site has an introduction to Shakespeare's life and times and a hotlist of sites for studying Shakespeare.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library has information about his life and works, as well as Shakespeare's theatre, FAQs and links to other works.
Shakespeare and the Globe: then and now
Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now from Encyclopaedia Britannica – information about Shakespeare, the Globe theatre, the plays, life in Elizabethan times, etc.
Shakespeare online
Shakespeare Online has information about Shakespeare, the plays, sonnets, poems, timelines, sources, essays, plots, analysis and key dates.
Shakespeare's life and times
This site about Shakespeare's life and times – society, history and politics of the time, the drama, literature, art, and music, and the stage. Some plays are explored and there are useful reference tools and indexes.
Shakespeare learning commons
This Canadian Shakespeare website provides learning resources for students and teachers. Topics include: the culture of Elizabethan times, Romeo and Juliet, use of parody, etc.
Shakespeare quartos archive
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 ed. of William Shakespeare's plays. It allows you to search, annotate, create exhibits, character cue line lists.
Shakespeare explorer
The Kennedy Centre's Shakespeare Explorer examines the life and legacy of William Shakespeare. The website uses an interactive map and timeline. Suitable for IWB.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London
The education section or online reference library of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre website has information for students including rehearsal notes about past productions and details of the rebuilding process for the theatre.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Links to Shakespeare's works, a biography, the Renaissance, criticism, aspects of performance, primary and secondary sources and best sites.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This lists the complete works of William Shakespeare.
In search of Shakespeare
This website from PBS complements a four part TV series and has an investigation into the life and times of Shakespeare, lesson plans, a game and other resources.
Shakespeare
A Flash animation features Shakespeare where he gives a short account of his life, marriage, children and about how he started his company of actors. His plays are mentioned briefly in terms of their genres. Suitable for IWB.
Play Shakespeare
Extensive Shakespeare site with complete play texts, search options & features such as which Shakespearean characters have the most lines. Also has podcasts and forum.
Shakespeare
From the BBC, Bitesize Revision covers Shakespeare set scenes: Macbeth, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. The notes are animated and a test is included.
About the Globe
Site contains information about the history of Elizabethan theatre, the architecture of the reconstructed theatre including a virtual tour (Quicktime needed), current productions, links to research and blogs about plays.
Shakespeare staging
On the original nature of Shakespearean performance during his lifetime, and of its development through four centuries thereafter. The 'Videos' section of the website has documentaries about Elizabethan life, and there are links to other websites.
Ren faire: Elizabethan accents
Proper Elizabethan Accents is a site that looks at the pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar of Shakespeare, in Elizabethan times.
Shakespeare in context - Multimedia tutorials
The interactive Shakespeare tutorials present users with background and contextual material for particular plays such as Romeo and Juliet, etc. The tutorials offer a series of challenges from facsimile texts. Suitable for IWB.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has information about the life of Shakespeare.
Snapshots
Original documents and related information, teacher notes and activities. Topics include Medieval Britain, Doomsday Book, Henry VIII, Tudors, Spanish Armada, Shakespeare, Guy Fawkes, London etc.
Changing stages
Changing Stages TV documentary about 20th Century British and American theatre is accompanied by this PBS Website. The site includes a timeline and map. Topics on the site include Shakespeare, Ireland, America, 1956 and between Brecht and Beckett.
The Shakespeare paper trail.
The BBC Tudors webpage provides links to many aspects of Tudor history. Topics include Shakespeare.
Willliam Shakespeare : the complete works.
This site is dedicated to the playwright William Shakespeare and his famous works. William Shakespeare's sonnets and pictures are featured as well as his poems and biography.
Shakespeare On-Line
Shakespeare Online has comprehensive information about Shakespeare. Includes the plays, sonnets, poems, timelines, sources, essays, plots, analysis and key dates.
William Shakespeare at eNotes.
Shakespeare biography with guides to the plays, quotes, criticism, and more.
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Stratford-upon-Avon,
Shakespeare’s birthplace.
Bibliography. Do not forget to write your bibliography. To reference an internet page follow this guideline:
Author (if known) or authoring body, / Year of publication, / Titleof document, / Publisher, / Publication Place, / Date of access, / Full web address with no breaks.It will look like this: Wikipedia Foundation Inc., Shakespeare, Wikipedia, San Francisco, viewed 5September, 2011,
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