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Bibliography: Shakespeare's Life from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
Chronology from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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.
William Shakespeare from Edmund Malone's Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage (1800) from Encyclopædia Britannica.
FAQs: Shakespeare's Life from The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Historical and Political Background from
the Internet Shakespeare Editions: copy and paste link into your browser: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/history/historysubj.html
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
Maps of Shakespeare's Time from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
The Seven Ages of Shakespeare's Life from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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 & Times from
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet,
Terry A. Gray,
Palomar Community College
"I have brought together all the primarily and tangentially related sites regarding Shakespeare biographical and historical material, and the material related to the Elizabethan era in particular. Since the amount of biographical material on Shakespeare on the Internet is growing but still not great, I have contributed some important primary documents linked from this page. I have included links to what pre-existing material I could find. It is ironic that some of the best sources are those having to do with the authorship controversy. Let me say at the outset that I regard this "controversy" as a complete waste of time, but I know that others do not, so I have tried to be fair in the presentation."
"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.
The
Unsigned Biography of William Shakespeare that first appeared in the "greatly
improved and enlarged" Second Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1777-84).
Elizabethan England
The Elizabethan World from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Renaissance, The Elizabethan World - Life in Tudor England
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.
Elizabethan Heraldry 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.
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.
The 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 from
the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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 from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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.
History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents, EuroDocs by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
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 from Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, Terry A. Gray, Palomar Community College 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
Tudor History
An introductory survey by Lara E. Eakins, with sections on the monarchs, Tudor
architecture, films, and a bibliography.
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