This website offers a wide variety of helpful resources. The website is broken down into four main categories. The different categories are the life of Shakespeare, the world of Shakespeare, the works of Shakespeare, and additional sections. These different categories include useful pages about the time in which Shakespeare lived, Shakespeare’s life, and works things Shakespeare wrote. The additional sections category includes some fun ways to learn about Shakespeare, such as, quizzes, quotes, and maps.

--Anthony Glen Ison

The Dictionary at this site, called the Shakespeare dictionary, is a useful tool in understanding the more complex word usage that Shakespeare employs in his plays and poetry. The website is easy to navigate and provides further information on Shakespeare in addition to an entire dictionary of words and meanings that Shakespeare employs in his writing.

--Shay Lessman

The William Shakespeare Elizabethan Dictionary is a valuable resource for Shakespeare terms.  This website is user friendly.  The user simply clicks on the letter of the alphabet that their word corresponds with, and they are taken to a page with full definitions.  The website also contains full text copies of all of Shakespeare’s works, an explanation of the identity problem, information about Shakespeare’s life and the world at the time he was writing, and information about the globe theater.

--Michelle Jensen

Shakespeare On-line

This website includes a collection of Shakespeare’s works and multiple resources about his life and works. One nice thing about this website is that it gives intellectual plot outlines to most of his works. The website also includes timelines vital to Shakespeare’s works. The “Shakespeare Online” website also includes small biographies on the different theaters used for Shakespeare’s plays.

--Anthony Glen Ison

--Brenna Hanley

--Susan Peace

Absolute Shakespeare

This website is a great resource for anyone that desires to learn a lot more about William Shakespeare and his work. The website includes great information about the “Authorship Debate,” as well as the Globe Theater. “Absolute Shakespeare,” is well organized and easy to navigate. The website also includes an overview quiz of William Shakespeare, which is rather fun and challenging.

--Anthony Glen Ison

The absolute Shakespeare website provides links to information hosted by the site about all of the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s life, and other Shakespeare-related information. Aside from the links, there are quizzes and study guides for all of Shakespeare’s plays. The website is useful for studying the plays and understanding the material and the context in which the material was written. The website also offers a timeline of Shakespeare’s writing so that students may see when each play was written.

--Shay Lessman

Palomar Shakespeare

The Palomar Shakespeare website provides a more interactive interface for users because the website hosts a blog and informs users when there will be Shakespearian festivals. The website contains the same quality of information hosted by the Absolute Shakespeare website, but with a more user friendly interface. The website also hosts RSS feeds so that students can subscribe and be constantly updated on Shakespearian developments in the media.

--Shay Lessman

A Shakespeare Timeline is a website summarizing the historical events surrounding William Shakespeare’s life.  The user clicks on the year or event on the timeline and they are given information that neatly summarizes what was going on at that time.  Such events included on the timeline are Shakespeare’s birth, marriage and death, the great globe, romance and reconciliation, and many more.

--Michelle Jensen

Great for history of plays and accurate period timelines. Good for analysis of Shakespeare's works. Also gives listings of Shakespeare festivals and performances.

--Brenna Hanley

Nifty site with Shakespeare study guides, various criticisms, and a succinct biographical section. Most useful feature is the book review section.
--Seth Spencer

Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is a useful resource to anyone hoping to learn more about Shakespeare and his plays, from elementary school students to professional scholars.  In addition to the full collection of Shakespeare’s works available to be read, the website has links to seminars and exhibitions, librarians, educational programs, and much more.  This website is not a user friendly, but instead is for those who have a passion for Shakespeare and desire to dig deeper into his works and the studies surrounding them. 

--Michelle Jensen

--Brenna Hanley

Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare

Great resource for essays and documentation on Canadian productions of Shakespeare's plays. Most useful features include an online anthology and a gallery of photos of various company's productions.

--Seth Spencer

Blackwell reference.com

A site that acts as a companion to Shakespeare's sonnets. Contains some plain English text that one can read side-by-side with the sonnets.

--Seth Spencer