Keats' Letter on Negative Capability and other critical readings

Harold Copping as Hamlet

read Keats on Negative Capability here:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essay/237836?page=2

Read Freud on Hamlet here: 

http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/archive-courses/fall09/175/etexts/repression-hamlet_freud.pdf

Read T.S. Eliot on Hamlet here: 

http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html

The Sonnets

The sonnets, often with a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto Version. It also includes sonnets by Shakespeare's contemporaries:
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/printing

An overview of the sonnets' history and controversy:
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/sonnets.html

an awesome hypertextual concordance:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/sonnets/

searchable sonnets: http://www.samdutton.com/shearch/

This allows you to compare sonnets side by side:
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnets.php

for the language buffs, the sonnets translated into Latin:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/latinitas/dv/dv.html

Contemporary Performance

Henslowe's Diary: the personal record of the owner of The Rose theater:

http://www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk/essays/henslowediary.html

http://books.google.com/books/about/Henslowe_s_Diary_Text.html?id=3jYVAAAAYAAJ

Primary sources related to contemporary stagings:

http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=191

On Playing Companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_company

to sense what has been lost:
http://www.lostplays.org/index.php/Main_Page

reviews of current period productions on Broadway:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/theater/reviews/twelfth-night-and-richard-iii-with-mark-rylance.html?_r=0

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/twelfth-night-richard-iii-belasco-theatre

Shakespeare's Sources

Folger primary source list: http://www.folger.edu/eduPrimSrcArch.cfm?CFID=10450826&CFTOKEN=444ef60a8865b763-78F62897-3473-0E4E-CC6E2ECA695CC169

a helpful graph organized by work:

http://shakespeare-w.com/english/shakespeare/source.html

Illustrations and Illuminations

Shakespeare Illustrated:

http://shakespeare.emory.edu/illustrated_introduction.cfm

Photographs of Players and Productions:

http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/

Shakespearean Poetics

shakespearean verse and prose: 

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/verseprose.html

The Forest of Rhetoric, a resource for understanding the art of turning a phrase:

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Shakespeare in his Space and Time

Map of Early Modern London:

http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/STPA2.htm

See the Bard's Birthplace: 

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/home.html

on the Elizabethan Age: 

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-age.htm

pbs show in search of shakespeare:

http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/

On the Theaters of the Period:

http://shalt.dmu.ac.uk/index.html

Maps of London: 
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/crace/index.html

historical resources:
http://www.connectedhistories.org/

Some interesting articles: 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9203296/Neil-MacGregor-interview-Shakespeares-Restless-World-a-history-in-objects.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8853306/Shakespeare-conspiracy-theories.html

Musical and Theatrical Performance

Performance of Shakespeare: 

http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/

Bardbox: 

http://bardbox.wordpress.com/

On the use of music in the plays: 

http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-9396030

Listen to music in the time of Shakespeare: 

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY0HG7j1maOjUyzGjnfL250Pg-GE0DcA0

Online videos of productions across the world:

http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/#

Textual Studies

quartos: 

http://www.quartos.org/

British Library: 

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

Early Modern resources. Manuscripts, maps, editions, facsimiles: 

http://earlymodernweb.org/resources/category/primary-sources/

Basic Resources

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online: 

http://www.worldshakesbib.org/

Internet Shakespeare Editons. Editions of the Plays and many resources:

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/

Visualizing English print: 

http://winedarksea.org/?p=1799

Oxford English Dictionary: 

https://library.umaine.edu/auth/auth.asp

Lexicon of Early Modern English:

http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/

good online editions:
http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/

open source shakespeare

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

Britannica's guide to Shakespeare: 

http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare

Virtual Shakespeare

fly through 17th c. london:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/fly-through-17th-century-london.html

tour of globe:

http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-tour

the globe film: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_apD7Aec8

virtual globe:

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/sound_globe.swf

Pre-20th Century Critics on Shakespeare

shakespeare and his critics: http://shakespearean.org.uk/

Ben Johnson:

http://www.bartleby.com/27/2.html

Sam Johnson:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/preface.html#preface

John Dryden:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html

Pope's preface to Shakespeare:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/pope-shakespeare.html

Carlyle (search for King Shakespeare): 

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1091

Tolstoy: 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27726

The Original Pronunciation

Here are some resources for coming to understand the way Shakespeare's English 
sounded. 

An introductory podcast from NPR on pronunciation: 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/03/24/149160526/shakespeares-accent-how-did-the-bard-really-sound

Meier's pdf aiding learning OP: 

http://www.paulmeier.com/OP.pdf

Shakespearean pronunciation: 

http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/what-shakespeare-sounded-like-to-shakespeare.html

Crystal's pronouncing Shakespeare: 

http://www.pronouncingshakespeare.com/

http://originalpronunciation.com/learning-op/