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Shakespeare Festivals and Troupes  

The American Shakespeare Center--, formally the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, this exciting acting troupe based in Staunton, Virginia travels throughout the world.

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Websites Related to Shakespeare


The Complete Works of Shakespeare.  You can search by play, genre or by word or phrase.

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Poor Yorick--The CD and Video Emporium for all things Shakespeare.  Stop here first for all Shakespeare multimedia needs.

The Costumer's Manifesto--if you are interested theater and costume design, you should check out this very thorough and thoroughly entertaining website.  It covers all aspects of costuming--Shakespearean or otherwise--including how to design and construct costumes, the history of costuming from the ancients to the present, and movies that feature effective use of costuming.

"Shakespeare Examined Through Performance"--The 1995-96 NEH/Folger Library Institute.  It may be over, but it's still a great resource that continues to grow.  In particular, check out the fantastic "Shakespeare Performance Recipe Book," a compilation of teaching exercises.  Wow!

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre--See what all the fuss is about concerning the restructed new Globe Theatre

The Shakespeare Authorship Page--Those Oxfordians can eat my shorts.

 

Websites Related to Other Renaissance Authors

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.  Check out this great page.  It has some wonderful images from the works.

The Edmund Spenser Home Page

 

Websites related to the Renaissance

Luminarium--a wonderful collection of primary and secondary works by and about various authors from the Medieval period, the Renaissance, and the 17th century.

Literary Research--Renaissance--Impressive in its depth and breadth, this page is put together by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.

The Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century Page--Maintained by the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the VOS is probably the most impressive resource on the Internet for doing research in the Humanities.  


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On Writing a Research Paper on Shakespeare (this teacher's own musings on the matter)

How to do research in Shakespeare   Some musings on writing a research paper on Shakespeare  Some theoretical sources about Shakespeare Summaries of the Plays  Study Questions on Shakespeare's Plays

 

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Other resources

CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS: (U. Penn English Dept.)

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