Amy Ulen's Surfing with the Bard
This energetic collection provides "zones" for discussion, teacher resources, student guides, and reviews.

Terry Grey's Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This site offers a Shakespeare timeline and genealogy, a list of Shakespeare festivals, links to Web editions of the complete works, study guides and notes to a number of plays, and dozens and dozens of links to other Shakespeare sites on the Web. Well organized and thorough, it is an excellent place to start.

Renaissance: Elizabethan World
This site offers 70 pages of information about many Tudor/Elizabethan topics.

Shakespeare Illustrated
This beautiful project by Prof. Harry Rusche features paintings based on Shakespeare's plays, including some famous works by Blake, Delacroix, Fuseli, Millais and Rossetti.

Penn's Shakespeare Library
The English Renaissance in Context
Prof. Rebecca Bushnell introduces and annotates a wealth of wonderful resources -- including a group of important Renaissance texts, including Holinshed's Chronicles (a major source for Shakespeare's history plays) and several editions of King Lear. The texts are presented here in photographic facsimile for detailed study -- approximately one and a half times lifesize. This may be as close as most of us get to the rare quarto and folio editions.

Royal Shakespeare Company
For information about notable stage performances, this is the site I use the most. The RSC is the most famous Shakespearean company in the world. Most of the famous British actors of the 20th century worked in this company (including half the adult cast of the Harry Potter movies, for example -- Snape, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Voldemort, Lockhart, Petunia, Skeeter, Maxime, Fudge, ). The part of the site called "online resources" offers a wealth of information about Shakespeare's plays and esp. of important stage productions of them - complete with hundreds of production photos.

100 Best Shakespearean Performances
Here is someone's list of the best Shakespearean acting performances ever - including movies as well as stage productions and ranging from 1670 to 1993 (somehow the original Globe actors like Burbage were not talented enough to be included!). Like all "top 100" lists, this one is by turns interesting, useful, provocative, and maddening. Thanks to film, we can study 15 of these notable performances this semester. Want to know which play has the most nominations (an obvious choice), which single stage production had the most winning performances, which actor is most often cited, which is the oldest or the most recent performance to be praised? Check it out!

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (rebuilt)
Shakespeare's Globe
This site offers detailed information about the original Globe of 1599 as well as its present London reincarnation. Links are provided to a Reading site about the Globe's neighbor, the Rose Theatre. Included are photographs, dimensions, drawings, diagrams, and even a "virtual tour" of the recently rebuilt Globe -- with photos supplying a 360-degree visual experience (www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/GlobeQTVR.html <http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/GlobeQTVR.html> )

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
In addition to information for prospective tourists (hours, ticket prices), this official Stratford site supplies a brief biography, and information about 16th century Stratford life, including details about the houses and school associated with the Bard.

Queen Elizabeth I - appearance
This UK site offers a quick description of the Queen's appearance as captured in portraits, with a few of those paintings.

King James I
James VI of Scotland became James I ruling both Scotland and England after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. He ruled England when most of Shakespeare's tragedies were written and first performed. Shakespeare's company of actors claimed the patronage and protection of the king and were known as The King's Men. For more info about this powerful ruler, take a look at these web sites:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/james_i_king.shtml
• http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/james/jamesbio.htm
• http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/history/jamessubj.html
• http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp02390 (links to portraits of the king in the National Portrait Gallery in London)

Movie Review Query Engine
This may be the best source for movie reviews.

Internet Movie Database
This is the fullest, richest, most complete site for information about films - typically listing year of production and complete casts, and sometimes including box office stats, reviews, and other information.

Internet Broadway Data Base
Here is the site that Amy Kay Nickerson discovered, with information about the dates and theatres and casts of theatre performances, mostly on Broadway in New York. This site is parallel to the well known Internet Movie Data Base. Take a look!