Authors of Sources for Shakespeare's Plays from Encyclopædia Britannica.
The Drama and Shakespeare This "book" provides an introduction to the dramatic traditions that Shakespeare inherited as he began his career as playwright.
First
Folio (1623) Facsimile Alternative Title: Mr William Shakespeare's comedies,
histories, & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies:
1623. "This is an on-line photographic reproduction of the 1623 first folio
of Shakespeare's works held at Horace Howard Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library.
The text can be navigated by section, play, sigla and page number. Images are
resizable. Page by page comparisons are possible between the First Folio and
a selection of editions of Shakespeare's work and some of his sources. Folio
and quarto comparisons are possible for the following : Henry the Fourth, Part
One; Hamlet; Henry The Fifth; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Othello (Q2
and 4); Pericles (Q5 and 6) and Romeo and Juliet. As well as being of potential
use to editors of Shakespeare's plays and to academics generally, the site may
also prove of use for students taking research methods courses and anybody interested
in textual variations between editions of Shakespeare's play." Chris Boswell,
The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Hear
Famous Actors Read Shakespeare from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Music in Shakespeare's Plays by Mary Springfels from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Settings of Shakespeare's plays from Encyclopædia Britannica (requires Shockwave).
Shakespeare: Life and Plays by George Saintsbury, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh.
Shakespeare, William: Works "Bielefeld University Library has made available digital editions of a number of works from its special collections. The works of William Shakespeare has been digitized from Alexander Pope's quarto edition published in London from 1723-25. The works comprises six volumes of plays, each of which has been digitized and made available as a series of page images (two pages per image). Simple navigation aids are also provided. The digital edition is designed to be viewed on a 1024 x 768 resolution screen and makes use of HTML frames. Pope's edition of Shakespeare includes Nicholas Rowe's life of Shakespeare. The digital edition also preserves the illustrations including a portrait of Shakespeare." The Humbul Humanities Hub
Shakespeare's
Works Links to the collected and individual works by Shakespeare.
Some
plays explored This "book" discusses ways in which you can use
Shakespeare's Life and Times to explore issues in selected plays.
The
Sources Shakespeare Used for his Plays
Shakespeare: Individual plays Criticism, photos and production information.
Hamlet on the Ramparts "Hamlet on the Ramparts is a collection of texts, images, and films related to Hamlet's first encounter with the ghost (Act I, scenes 4 and 5). Created by the MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive in collaboration with major libraries, publishers and scholars, it is a developing multimedia archive attempting to bring together in digital form resources which are geographically dispersed. Initially, it contains electronic texts of three major modern editions (the Arden, the Folger, and the Oxford), page images of the first three printed editions of the play (The First Folio, The First Quarto, The Second Quarto), and an expansive collection of images: over 200 from the Folger Library, a collection of artwork based on Hamlet, and digitised photographs of recent Hamlet productions from the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Additionally, the site contains sequences from three film versions: the Forbes-Robertson film of 1913, the Svend Gade adaptation of 1920, and the filmed record of the Richard Burton-John Gielgud production of 1964. The collection will develop to include other texts, images, films and sound recordings, scholarly commentaries on the scenes, and a forum for user participation. The site also provides lesson plans and useful guides and tutorials for teachers." The Humbul Humanities Hub
Hamlet
Haven: An Online, Annotated Bibliography (Characters, Subjects, Approaches)
from Harmonie Loberg.
Hamlet Revisiting A cultural history of the play: the history of its text, of performance practices on stage and in reading.
Introduction
to Hamlet A summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet can be found on
this site along with articles discussing various aspects of the play, including
its historical sources, themes, and soliloquies. Eriks Uskalis from the University
of Liège in Belgium also provides a biography of Shakespeare, a chronology
of his plays, and information on his reputation and language.
Shakespeare, The Tempest, adapted by Beerbohm Tree "This fascinating site contains a facsimile of the cover of the programme for the fiftieth performance of The Tempest directed by Beerbohm Tree in 1904. The programme included Tree's text of the play, which is here electronically reproduced. The site also features illustrations, by Buchel, from the programme.
Edited by David Lindley of Leeds University, the text is more than just a theatrical oddity. Its significance in the history of Shakespeare performance is due to the 'sympathetic prominence' given to Caliban. It could be argued, in fact, that Tree's adaptation makes possible the 'post-colonial' readings of The Tempest that have dominated recent Shakespeare criticism.
The site is beautifully produced to exacting scholarly standards." Stuart Allen, The Humbul Humanities Hub
The
Richard III and Yorkist History Server Resources about Shakespeare's Richard
III and historical data about the Yorkist king. Includes secondary sources and
some primary texts, film and play reviews, contact information for other Shakespeare
societies, and specific reference materials for scholars and teachers.
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