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Bibliography: Shakespeare's Life
Educating Shakespeare - School Life in Elizabethan England "This is the home page of Educating Shakespeare, an internet resource designed to further distribution of information on school education in the second half of the sixteenth-century. Its central focus is the King's New School in Stratford-upon-Avon. The web site is maintained by the Guild School Association which, for the last twenty years, has promoted interest in the history of this school. Its primary function is to provide a starting point on the web for students needing to know more about Shakespeare's education or Elizabethan schools in general, but it also acts as a guide to other Shakespeare-related information on the web and to printed sources. A list of further reading, based on sources used, is provided, and the site takes advantage of hyperlinks to provide annotations to the text and allows the user to access the text in a non-linear fashion." Daniel Came, The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Edmund Malone's life of Shakespeare from Encyclopædia Britannica.
History and Politics The "history" of Shakespeare's plays means two things: the history of earlier times he used in many of his works, and the history of his own time which informs and shapes much that he wrote. This "book" explores both these kinds of history, and in addtion provides some background on the legal system of the time, and the growing influence of puritan, anti-monarchist forces. Bibliography: History and Politics
A Hypertext Extract of the Encyclopædia Britannica Biography of William Shakespeare, cowritten by John Russell Brown, Professor of Theatre, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of such volumes as Shakespeare, Actors, and Audiences, and by Terence John Bew Spencer (d. 1978), who was Professor of English Language and Literature (1958-78), University of Birmingham, England, general editor of The New Penguin Shakespeare and the Penguin Shakespeare Library (1964-78), and the author of The Tyranny of Shakespeare and Shakespeare: The Roman Plays.
The Seven Ages of Shakespeare's Life
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust The official site all about the man, his life, his authorship, library and archives, what he looked like and the houses that were part of his life in Elizabethan England.
Shakespeare’s Life: A Bibliography (click on Open or Save).
Shakespeare's Life & Times "This web site provides an extensive introduction to Shakespeare's life and times. The site is a slightly abbreviated version of the 'Shakespeare's Life and Times' CD-ROM, containing most of the text of that product, but without as many multimedia features. The web site is divided by subject areas such as: Shakespeare's life; the stage; history and politics; the background of ideas; the drama, etc. Each of these topics is then subdivided, and these sub-headings lead to sets of individual pages that provide clear and simple introductions to the issues in question. The pages are often illustrated and sometimes include links to external web resources. Links to electronic texts of Shakespeare are, of course, provided." The Humbul Humanities Hub
"Shakespeare: Life and Plays" in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21), Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One.
Elizabethan EnglandThe Elizabethan Context from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Elizabethan Heraldry John Neitz on Heralds and Heraldry, arms of famous Elizabethans (all in color), transcriptions of primary sources, and A Primer of Blazonry to get you started.
Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes Maggie Secara on sumptuary laws, with annotated transcriptions of the primary texts.
The
Great Seal of Elizabeth I A Virtual Museum Millennium Exhibition from The
National Archives includes primary documents, a biographical essay on Shakespeare,
Shakespeare's Family Tree, eyewitness accounts and various essays including
fashion of the times, illustrated with facsimile images of primary sources held
at the National Archives.
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 More than 70 pages of insight into everyday life in Tudor England - food, occupations, games, pastimes, religion, fashion, manners, attitudes, and education in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. A unique reference for writers, students, actors, re-enactors, and Renaissance enthusiasts, written by Maggie Secara and designed for the Web by Paula Kate Marmor.
The Place of Shakespeare's Stage in Elizabethan Culture by Steven Mullaney from Encyclopædia Britannica.
William Camden's Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha (1615 and 1625), with the annotations of Sir Francis Bacon, in Latin and English, at Dana F. Sutton's The Philological Museum.
RenaissanceThe Sixteenth Century from the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature A wide-ranging scholarly site at Luminarium by Anniina Jokinen.
The Background of Ideas Shakespeare lived at a time when many beliefs were being sharply questioned. This "book" describes some of the debates, beginning with a discussion of some views of nature inherited from earlier periods, and exploring the ferment of ideas that Shakespeare and his contemporaries read and discussed.
Bibliography: The Background of Ideas
The
English Renaissance in context (ERIC) "This slick web site has been
developed as electronic courseware for English literature students of Shakespeare
and the early-modern printed book. There are separate 'Flash' tutorials on Romeo
& Juliet, Richard III, the Merchant of Venice, and King Lear. Each tutorial
helps put the play in its historical context and describes its stage history.
The project is based on the premise that teaching English Renaissance Literature
by using texts in their original formats (here reproduced virtually) provides
students with an important dimension that would otherwise be unavailable to
them. The tutorials are, therefore, linked to electronic reproductions of original
manuscripts and printed editions. Multiple versions of texts may be compared
on-screen at once." The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Medieval
& Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
The Perseus Digital Library: Renaissance Materials "The Perseus Garner collection of Renaissance materials is part of the Perseus Digital Library. The aim of the collection is to make freely available online primary materials from the early modern period in England (the English Renaissance). There are also selected secondary materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At present, the site contains an electronic edition of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, beautifully presented and fully searchable. A number of background texts, historical sources and glossaries are also available." Stuart Allen, The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Renaissance
& 17th Century Literature from Voice of the Shuttle
Shakespeare and the Renaissance Journals and text repositories related to Shakespeare, Elizabethan, and Renaissance studies as well as web pages about Shakespeare's contemporaries (and near contemporaries).
A Short Political, Literary and Cultural History of Britain
An introductory survey by Lara E. Eakins, with sections on the monarchs, Tudor
architecture, films, and a bibliography.
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