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SHAKESPEARE

Complete Works of Shakespeare - Downloading whole works is not recommended, but this is a useful site if one needs a scene, a particular passage, a sonnet, etc.  Or if one has forgotten one's book.

Hecatommithi, by Giambattisa Giraldi Cinzio- The 16th century source for Shakespeare's Othello and for Verdi's Otello, in a 19th century translation by P.E.Taylor. 

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge

Not literature, but everyday life.

Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet - Extremely valuable portal site.

Shakespeare Illustrated - Ed. by Henry Rusche ( Emory University)
    Illustrations of most of the plays from various eras.

New Globe theatre, London. Globe Website.

Shakespeare's Life and Times HomePage - from Athabascan University, Canada

Shakespeare Statistics Compiled by Hartmut Ilseman, University of Hanover.

Surfing with the Bard 
   
New address on the web; highly recommended site

 

April, 2009