Shakespeare
General Sites
Mr. William Shakespeare and the
Internet - This is one of those "Mother of all Sites" sites. A wonderful
place for links and discovery. It keeps me from adding to my site.
Shakespeare Classroom - A lot of
materials for teaching Shakespeare, along with many links. The home page can take a while
to load, but it is worth it.
Search the Complete Plays of
William Shakespeare Online - Know Shakespeare wrote something, but can't remember
where its housed in the Canon? Let this site do the searching.
The Works of the Bard
- Contains the complete works, links, and a search engine.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- The MIT site with a quick table from which to select any of the plays.
The Folger Shakespeare Library - Home page
of an independant research library.
Hamlet
Hamlet - A wonderfully deep
site, full of interesting content and links.
Hamlet - a sarcastic
synopsis.
The Sonnets
The
Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets - Helen Vendler's magniificent analysis of the sonnets.
Sonnets - Only one word
for it: Glorious! A beautifully done web site, including audio readings of many of the
sonnets. Downsides? The audio isn't real audio. Luddy opened up, but now
the sonnet pages don't load.
Sonnets
- A quick and dirty text file. Not at all impressive, but you can read it.
A Transvalued Sonnet. - What happens if you
color sonnet 73, add graphics, throw some fancy fonts and generally wig out?
A "slow
reading" or commentary - of Sonnet 65
An even slower
line-by-line commentary - of Sonnet 138
King Lear
King
Lear - The complete play, broken down scene by scene, or on one page.
King Lear's PalaceNET - A high school
student's synopsis of the scenes.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night's Dream - An annotated version of the play.