Shakespeare Links (Fall 2007)

 

These links were compiled by my Fall 2007 Shakespeare: The Early Plays class at Florida Southern College.  They are intended as a service to the students in the class and to any students studying Shakespeare!

 

Shakespeare.com

The first result of my Google search, Shakespeare.com, is presented in an easy to follow format.  Side toolbars have Shakespeare quotes from Shakespeare’s books along with explanations.  The site also has e-notes for online studying; these notes seem similar to Sparknotes.  The most interesting and fun feature that I found on the website was called Shakespeare A-Z.  The link, consisting of over 250 entries was inventive.  The site also has critical essays for future research.

--Laura Howell

 

This site is an excellent resources for students who are new to Shakespeare's works. It offers study guides for students and lesson plans for teachers. Interestingly, the site also offers multimedia resources like videos and voice recording for teachers.  

--Jessica Reichert

 

This one is a dump-truck load of Shakespeare information, literally an A - Z type of thing. It has line interpretations, all of his plays, poems, & sonnets, and different essays written on different things, just a massive overload of GOOD information.
--Justin Vanden Heuvel

 

“Shakespeare Online”

Comments: This website has links providing a detailed Shakespeare timeline, which was very helpful because I could easily identify time periods and dates plays were written and first performed.  The website also had a list of the top Shakespeare villains with a wisely placed Iago at the top.  Many other links were also interesting, and I will be further exploring this site in the future.

--Laura Howell

 

This website would be very helpful, I think. The links are broken up into plays, poems, analysis, key dates, topics, plots, facts, a glossary, and quizzes; all of which could be used by a student at some point during the semester. Each respective sonnet and play also has a separate link that leads to the actual text. This would be extremely useful in many situations… mainly if a play or sonnet gets lost, forgotten, or misplaced during the course of the semester. Every play and the majority of sonnets that we are studying this semester are on this website, except for the poem, The Rape of Lucrece.

--Lauren Kaufmann

 

This website is not very useful.  It looks to have been constructed by a recent college grad. and contains some articles she wrote about Shakespeare, his works, analyses, etc.  Unfortunately, most of the links just redirect you to about.com.  You would be better served to just search for Shakespeare on www.about.com.
--Wil Posey

This website is more fun, it has different ideas of themes for his plays, Shakespeare's WILL, his LOST YEARS. It just seems like an interesting journey, kind of like a Shakespeare MySpace. Not so formal as some of the others. This one is more of fun-filled facts, rather than just classroom-esque information
--Justin Vanden Heuvel

A comprehensive site that includes information about the bard, his life, and the period he lived in.  There is information on the theatres of the period, essays, list of Shakespearean scholars, book recommendations, and much more.  It has all the plays (with line numbers), poems and sonnets in their entirety.  The site is operated by Amanda Mabillard, a graduate of the BA Honors program at the University of Alberta.

--Rocky Encalada

This looks to be a very informative web site.  There are pages about Shakespeare's plays, poems and life.
--Lauren Anderson

Shakespeare Online is created by Amanda Mabillard who has a honor’s bachelor of art’s degree. Her site contains a wide range of content, including information about the life of Shakespeare, interpretations of his works, and even interpretations to critiques of his works. I liked this site because it provides a general overview of many of Shakespeare’s popular plays. --Erin Conroy

 

This site is basic (one could even say random) information on the Bard and his works. It covers everything from Shakespeare's birth to "A guide to Sonnet 116." I think I could best use it to add interesting non traditional facts to a Shakespeare paper.
--Ryan Marsico

 

“Absolute Shakespeare”

Absolute Shakespeare’s tagline says that this website is the “essential resource” for William Shakespeare. This site provides summaries, full-text versions of poems, pictures, and much more.  My favorite part of this website was the Shakespeare quiz link.  The quiz, consisting of eleven questions, encompasses details of Shakespeare’s life and his plays and poems.  Most questions were based on his well-known plays, but the quiz was still fun to take anyways, especially when I knew the answers! 

--Laura Howell

 

Similar to the previous website, this one contains all of the material we are studying this semester, with links to the actual text, and summaries of what happens. However, this website also affords study guides of some of the plays, along with a timeline of Shakespeare’s life.

--Lauren Kaufmann

 

This site contains much of the same information the previous one does, but it also includes pictures, authorship debates, a timeline, a list of film adaptations, and summaries of each play by acts.  There are a lot of useful links and it is a well organized site. 

--Wil Posey

 

This website reminds me of a museum, like an online Shakespearian museum. It has films, plays, poems, pictures, Bard facts, timeline, etc. It also features a section totally devoted to the Globe Theatre
--Justin Vanden Heuvel

 

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/

“Shakespeare Study Guides”

As always, there is also spark notes, which provides a wide range of material for the process of becoming familiar with and understanding Shakespeare’s work(s). The only possible downside I found to using sparknotes was, once again, I couldn’t find any information on “The Rape of Lucrece.”

--Lauren Kaufmann

 

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html
This site was interesting because it offers analysis of Shakespeare's poetry. Shakespeare's poetry and sonnets are often overshadowed by his plays so, there are not a lot of sites that offer this information.
--Jessica Reichert

 

Shakespeare Resource Center
I found this site interesting because so little is known about Shakespeare, the man. This site has information about his life, and the world in which he lived. It also has historical information on the Globe Theater and Elizabethan England.
--Jessica Reichert

 

This site is organized by Shakespeare's biographies, plays and poetry, language, cultural setting, background, and other useful information surrounding Shakespeare's works.  With each link there are more links to critical essays and other articles that complement the topic.

--Wil Posey

 

This site not only gives information but also connects to various links with further information on Shakespeare.  It gives a precise synopsis for every play, poem and sonnet, but does not give you the complete work.  It does connect you to Amazon.com if one wants to purchase a particular piece of work.

--Rocky Encalada

 

This site was the most helpful.  It provides links to other Shakespeare sites on the web.  There is also a biography and a section on the Globe Theater.
--Lauren Anderson

 

About.com:  Shakespeare - http://shakespeare.about.com

This particular site is part of the larger About.com, a site full of pages written by specialists in each field, creating a network that allows one to explore endlessly for information.  The Shakespeare specialist for this site is also Amanda Mabillard, of Shakespeare Online.  The site provides not only answers to various questions regarding the man himself, but also includes information about the time period and history of the country.  It also lists every play (with line numbers), poem and sonnet, along with criticisms, journals, and published essays. 

--Rocky Encalada

www.shakespeare.org.uk
A web site "promoting" the study of Shakespeare.  It is interesting and informative.  I like how it provides historic information that can be used in relation with studying Shakespeare.

--Lauren Anderson

"Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet." 25 July 2007. 23 Aug 2007             <http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/>.

            Terry Gray’s webpage is a very good starting point. Basically, it is a guide to finding all the sources online that contain information about Shakespeare. I like this site because I think it will produce more specific results than Google.

--Erin Conroy
 

Barrs, Dr. Jerram . "Shakespeare - A Christian Worldview?" BeThink.org. 2004.  European Leadership Forum. 23 Aug 2007             http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=86.

            Shakespeare is usually critiqued from a secular perspective. I liked Dr. Barrs’ website because it pointed out specific examples in Shakespeare’s plays which can be compared with similar biblical stories or verses.

--Erin Conroy


http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

This site is an entire list of Shakespeare's works categorized by Comedy, History, Tragedy, and Poem. i could use this site for any title or if I didn't have a script I could look here.
--Ryan Marsico


http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/

This site has very detailed information on The Bard's life and history along with his works and poems. This site (like the one above) has a complete list of his works categorized in a similar fashion. I could use it for general information and references to his works.

--Ryan Marsico

 

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