Shakespeare: Links and Resources
Useful links to explore:
Shakespeare Audio: An amazing resource of the complete plays of Shakespeare professionally recorded by wonderful voice actors. The single best way to "read" any of Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare Online Texts: Folger Library digital texts or various options to download.
Complete Shakespeare: Recommended for ease of use and helpful images, glossary, summaries, and notes.
Complete Shakespeare: Link to the digital text of all Shakespeare's work--recommended if using on a iPad or iPhone--very basic text.
British Library Shakespeare: All resources, primary documents, teaching resources, original articles from the British Library
Shakespeare Concordance: Search any word in Shakespeare. Refine your search to a particular play or character. Beautiful, simple, elegant website.
Shakespeare Searchable Database from Folger Library (in Beta). This link allows you to search the full works of Shakespeare in a variety of ways. An amazing concordance of every word ever written by Shakespeare. A must have for research projects and word focused research papers.
Shakespeare Apps: Check out this resource for the best iPad/Android apps for Shakespeare.
Read Shakespeare in a Year: A reading plan for reading all of Shakespeare in a year.
Shakespeare Audio: Over 50 hours of famous actors reading Shakespearean dialogue. It's a great resource to hear the magic of Shakespeare's language.
Shakespeare Hip-Hop App: This app is available on Google Play (search for RE: Shakespeare) is phenomenal. Exploring the disses and insults, incorporating beatbox, it's beastly.
Complete Shakespeare AUDIO!: Free iTunes downloads of all of Shakespeare's plays...way cool.
Sparknotes: No Fear Shakespeare (No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.)
Folgerpedia: Searchable collection of Folger Library artifacts and documents
Shakespeare and Maps: A collection of contemporary maps from Shakespeare's era.
Shakespeare Podcast Lectures: Series of very informative lectures on every play of Shakespeare by Oxford Professor of English, Emma Smith.
Shakespeare Uncovered: (from PBS) Use this site to access great resources on Shakespeare, view interesting documentaries, and learn a lot about Shakespeare! I've got the complete series on DVD if you want to checkout from me.
First Folio--The Original Publication: This a searchable, readable, zoomable first edition of all of Shakespeare's works when they first came out in 1623. The spelling is a bit strange, but for the history/Shakespeare buffs out there, it's the holy grail. A copy of this book is valued at approximately 6-7 MILLION dollars!
Early Modern Literature: This exhaustive collection from the Folger Library of all literature from the time period of Shakespeare. Every possible play, book, or poem from the time period of Shakespeare that isn't Shakespeare's.
Rare Manuscripts: View this website to see the earliest editions of Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare's Bible: This translation, the Bishop's Bible, is most likely the Bible translation that Shakespeare would have been familiar with.
The Art of English Poesy: Excerpted PDF of a famous essay by George Puttenham on poetry written during Shakespeare's time. Influential and insightful to read.
Yale Open Course on Early Modern History: Free online course taught at Yale University about the time period, politics, history of Shakespeare's time period.
Early Modern Dramas: Contemporary dramas written and performed at the same time as Shakespeare. Interesting to compare with the beauty and themes of Shakespeare. Provided free by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Coleridge on Shakespeare: Famous British Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's collection of notes on Shakespeare collected by the British Library
History of Shakespearean Criticism: A short timeline summary from Wikipedia of how Shakespeare has been famously interpreted since he wrote to the modern day.
Shakespeare History Fair--Use these helpful sites for your research for the Shakespeare History Fair presentations:
Study Tips for Shakespeare: How to get started with Shakespeare, great intro before you start reading Shakespeare on your own.
Shakespeare Pronunciation: How Shakespeare Really Sounded! Informative YouTube video.
Shakespeare in Pictures: This collection of historical and pop culture images of Shakespeare gives an interesting insight into our visual cultural Bardolatry.
Shakespeare in the News: This webpage I created houses a running collection of current events related to Shakespeare and examples of Shakespeare in the news. He's still relevant, even after 400 years!
Shakespeare in The New Yorker: A great collection of writings about Shakespeare in the famous literary magazine of New York, The New Yorker.
Stephen Greenblatt Intro: A great interview with Shakespearean scholar from Harvard University about the life of Shakespeare
Dr. Marjorie Garber Lectures: These lectures are given by Harvard professor and author of a fantastic book, Shakespeare After All. If you really want to go deep into some of his plays, check out these free lectures from Harvard University.
Monty Python and Shakespeare: 5 top videos from Monty Python references to Shakespeare. Hilarious!
20 Words We Owe to Shakespeare: Shakespeare coined thousands of new words in his play. These are 20 of the most well-known. Check it out.
Folger Library: The largest library of all things Shakespeare in the world--here in the U-S of A! (Washington, D.C)
American Shakespeare Center: The premier place for all things Shakespeare here in the States...
American Shakespeare Center Teacher Resources: Including study guides, etc.--Really cool website!
Royal Shakespeare Company: The "official" acting troupe of Shakespeare's plays--performing in London, this constantly changing group is phenomenal.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: the world’s leading charity in promoting the life and works of William Shakespeare--focus on his birthplace and his wife's
Globe Theater: Official website to the "official" Theater of Shakespeare--includes cool tours, fascinating info, and rockin' graphics
Globe Theater Informational: Site created by Univ. of Georgia to learn more about the Globe Theater--particularly useful for its info on the architecture of the original theater
Shakespeare Timeline Exactly what it sounds like. Click on the link, look at a timeline of Shakespeare's life.
The Documents: This site documents every known document during Shakespeare's time that proves his existence and his life. This is the ONLY written evidence of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was Shakespeare: The definitive proof that William Shakespeare wrote the plays of William Shakespeare.
The "Authorship" Controversy: Comprehensive site detailing why scholars know Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare and not any one else.
Original Pronunciation: This video explains how Shakespeare was originally pronounced. More interesting than it sounds, I promise.
Shakespeare and Hip-Hop: Video explaining the connections.
Shakespeare Lexicon: A searchable database of words and vocabulary during the time period.
Shakespearean Language: Short video about the innovations of Shakespeare's language.
Why Shakespeare? An interesting video with various big-name stars, explaining why Shakespeare is still important and relevant.
Shakespearean Insults: He was the king of slam. Learn from the master in this provocative video.
Reduced Shakespeare Company: This collection of parodies and satirical summaries of the complete works of Shakespeare. Funny, nerdy stuff.
How to Memorize Shakespeare: Helpful tips from trained Shakespearean actors on how to memorize their lines.
Recommended Reading: This phenomenal site gives the 100+ books to read about Shakespeare from a leading scholar. Hands down the best site available.
Shakespeare Association of America: The official site of professors, English teachers, and Bardolaters like Mr. Chilton who love Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Reference Page: This is a great site from fellow AP teacher Ms. Hogue with her own list of great references and useful links.
Shakespeare Jokes from Buzzfeed: 20 hilarious jokes from Tumblr on Buzzfeed
Shakespeare Blog: Wonderful blog about all things Shakespeare, very current and very thorough.
Shakespeare High School: Great website by high school teacher about his course on Shakespeare--look for resources
Why Shakespeare? A short documentary from the National Endowment of the Arts about the power of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Biography--Brief and Naughty: This ridiculously hip video attempts to humorously introduce Shakespeare's life to the uninitiated.
How to Read a Shakespeare Play: Interesting introductory essay from acclaimed University of Chicago professor David Bevington on his recommended approach to reading Shakespeare
Our Shakespeare, Ourselves: Podcast with Dr. James Shapiro about his book Contested Will
Theater Talk about Year of Lear: Interview with Dr. James Shapiro about his book The Year of Lear
Links of interviews and articles by Dr. James Shapiro, professor of English
The "Enfolded" Hamlet with Textual Criticism on every single line of the play--a ridiculous amount of scholarly resources: Linkd
Links for Chilton:
http://skipnicholson.com/Huntington.html