Shakespeare

Research Resources

CHS research databases

Gale Literature Resource Center

• Password: schools

Bloom's Literature (Infobase)

• Username: Crusaders1

• Password: Crusaders1

Helpful websites to explore (for all topics):

Folger Shakespeare Library

Folgerpedia

British Library: Treasures in Full

Internet Shakespeare Editions

Helpful books and websites by topic:

1. Shakespeare and the development of the teenage brain

   • How Puberty Changes Your Brain - TED Talk

   • Teens Aren't Just Risk Machines

   • Teenage Brains Are Malleable and Vulnerable

   • Experts Link Teens Brains' Immaturity, Juvenile Crime

   • The Distracted Teenage Brain

   • Fear Prompts Teens to Act Impulsively

   • Why It's Time to Lay the Stereotype of the "Teen Brain" to Rest

   • The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter

2. Directing, Acting, and Staging Shakespeare

   • Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare

   • Cutting Plays for Performance, with Aili Huber

   • Stage History

   • Staging Shakespeare: A 400 Year Romance

   • Acting Shakespeare

   • How Did Actors Learn Their Lines?

3. Shakespeare, Gender, and the Role of Women

   • WILLA: Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender

   • British Library: Shakespeare and Gender

   • Why Weren't Women Allowed to Act In Shakespeare's Plays?

   • Folger Library on Queen Elizabeth I

   • World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre

   • Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis

   • Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor

4. Educational value of Shakespeare

   • School Library Journal: To Teach or Not to Teach?

   • The Lure of Shakespeare

   • The Legacy of William Shakespeare

   • The History of Shakespeare in American Schools

   • Why Shakespeare's Stories Still Resonate

   • William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time by Andrew Gurr

   • Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells

   • Shakespeare's Wordcraft by Scott Kaiser

   • Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells

5. Theater & the Globe Theatre

   • The Globe website

   • The Globe virtual tour

   • World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre

   • Folger Library: Shakespeare's Theater

   • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

   • Shakespeare's Playhouses

   • World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre

   • Folger Library: Shakespeare's Theater

   • Encyclopedia Britannica: The Elizabethan Stage

   • Shakespeare's Staging

   • Shakespeare's Early Days: Crash Course Theater

   • Shakespeare and the Players by C. Walter Hodges

   • Shakespeare in His Age by F.E. Halliday

   • William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time by Andrew Gurr

   • Shakespeare in Performance, ed. by Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason

   • In the Steps of Shakespeare by Russell Thorndike

   • Shakespeare by Michael Wood

   • Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine

   • Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis

   • Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor

   • Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History, ed. by Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson

   • William Shakespeare: His Life and Times by Dennis Kay

   • Shakespeare: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More by Charles Boyce

6. Courting and marriage customs

   • Marriage and Courtship

   • Shakespeare's Staging: Romeo and Juliet

   • Shakespeare in His Age by F.E. Halliday

   • Shakespeare by Michael Wood

   • Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine

   • Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis

   • Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor

7. The role of the church and religion

   • Shakespeare and Religion

   • World History Encyclopedia: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement

   • Hartford Stage: Religion in Elizabethan England

   • Shakespeare by Michael Wood

   • Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis

   • Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor

   • Shakespeare: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More by Charles Boyce

8. Weaponry

   • Elizabethan Street Fighting

   • Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England

   • Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: The Weapons of War

   • Folger Shakespeare Library: Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare

   • British Library: The Violence of Romeo and Juliet

   • Elizabethan Weapons

   • Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare

   • Stage Combat on the Elizabethan Stage

   • The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia by The Diagram Group

   • Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine

   • Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor

9. Elizabethan medicine

   • Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare's England

   • 'He Didn't Flee': Shakespeare And The Plague

   • Shakespeare and the Four Humors

   • Medicine in the Time of Shakespeare

   • Elizabethan Medicine

   • Early Modern England: Medicine, Shakespeare, and Books

   • Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History by Steve Parker

   • The Cambridge History of Medicine, edited by Roy Porter

Other Print Resources

Try searching the CHS library catalog to find library books on your topic.