Think Like a Shakespeare: Shakespearean Links

Shakespeare text links

• First Folio online in etext , semi-facsimile and facsimile editions; Anthony West's history of the First Folio
• Complete works of Shakespeare online from MIT
• Internet Shakespeare editions a list of lists
• Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet
• See also the links on the authorship page, most of which also contain extensive general links

Shakespeare links

Far too many to list.

• The Folger Library: exhibits, bibliographical records, selected online facsimiles and texts.
• Good resource for high school students and teachers: Shakespeare High
• The Shakespeare Resource Center
• Rosalind Tedford's Electronic Shakespeare

Links to poets and dramatists

• The Luminarium Renaissance Literature collection, the labor of love of Anniina Jokinen
  • Ben Jonson
  • John Lyly
  • Christopher Marlowe
• Anthony Munday: the whole text of The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington; his two best lyric poems
• Shakespearean collaborator John Fletcher
• See also Mark Alexander's Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook section on Elizabethan e-texts
• Perseus Project English Renaissance texts

General Renaissance links

Again, too many to list. Here are a few nice ones that may bring the era of Shakespeare to life for you:

• A fine site on Renaissance re-enactment: http://www.renfaire.com/
• Lesson plans and other exercises on "translating" Shakespeare into English understandable by students http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators/language/
• Proper Elizabethan Accents http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html
• The Folger Library
• Map of Tudor London
• Want to print a Renaissance book on your own computer? Jeff Lee's sixteenth-century typefaces can be downloaded here. On this site there's also a font converter, which converts text to use the obsolete Elizabethan ligatures. All free; thank you, Jeff.
• The Art of Calligraphy by David Harris (Dorling-Kindersley, 1995, ISBN 1-56458-849-1, $24.95). The reviewer comments, "The only book I've ever seen that tells you how to draw an Elizabethan secretary hand."
• Renaissance Dance http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/sca_dance_steps.html

Footnotes, the authorship question, a photo album, and sheer Shakespearean weirdness