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Shakespeare Print Resources in Belmont Library

Shakespeare's Theatre & Staging                                   CALL NUMBER : 792
Shakespeare's Plays, Sonnets, Analysis & Critiques   CALL NUMBER : 822.3
Shakespeare Biographies                                               CALL NUMBER : 921 SHA
Shakespeare Criticism [13 Volume Set]                        CALL NUMBER : REF 822.3 SHA

Shakespeare on the Web - Student Friendly Resources
Shakespeare Resources
Life & Society of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's England
The Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre Rebuilt - Views from outside and inside
Brief summaries of some of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
Play Summaries 
Lamb's Paraphrase
Study guides for Shakespeare's Plays 
Spark Notes - be sure to type the name of the play into their search box.
No Fear Shakespeare - Side by side original text & contemporary text of the plays.
All of Shakespeare's plays online.
Hear the play read at Wired for Books.
Green Eggs and Ham-let - a parody for children of all ages.
Raymond Chandler's Hamlet

And even more Shakespeare resources :
  • British Theatre History
    A directory of sites dedicated to British theatre history.
  • Enotes – William Shakespeare
    An extensive study guide for the works of William Shakespeare. This is a commercial site but they do provide access to some text at no charge.
  • Electronic Shakespeare: Resources for Researchers
    An up to date guide to Shakespeare resources on the WWW.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Shakespeare
    Presentation on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Includes a biography, plot synopses of his plays, essays on Elizabethan Theater, an overview of Elizabethan England, and discussion on the authorship debate.
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
    The Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials.
  • In Search of Shakespeare
    The PBS companion website covers the life and works of Shakespeare.
  • Internet Shakespeare Editions
    This University of Victoria site provides you with scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare’s plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare’s life and works, and records of his plays in performance.
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
    An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
  • Open Source Shakespeare
    Based on the Globe edition of 1864, this site provides concordance, keyword and advanced searching, statistics, the text of the plays, find characters, and a search of all the poetry as well.
  • Shakes Sphere: A Comprehensive Study Guide for the World of William Shakespeare
    Play summaries, sonnet analysis, GlobeTheatre, criticism, and essays
  • Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
    Wake Forest University’s excellent page (with pictures) on the Globe Theatre.
  • Shakespeare Online
    One of the top free sites on the Web for information on the Bard.
  • Shakespeare’s Phrases
    All of Shakespeare’s best known quotations organized alphabetically.
  • Shakespeare Resource Centre 
    A portal with the most useful free sites regarding Shakespeare on the Web.
  • Shakespeare Timeline
    Timelines of Shakespeare’s life and works.
  • Shakespeare’s Words
    The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with an entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare’s works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that may pose you difficulty.
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