Illustrations and Illuminations

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Shakespeare Illustrated:

Shakespearean Poetics


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

Shakespeare in his Space and Time

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Map of Early Modern London:

See the Bard's Birthplace: 

on the Elizabethan Age: 

pbs show in search of shakespeare:

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

On the use of music in the plays: 

Listen to music in the time of Shakespeare: 

Textual Studies


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British Library: 

Basic Resources

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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online: 
http://www.worldshakesbib.org/

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

Visualizing English print: 

Oxford English Dictionary: 
https://library.umaine.edu/auth/auth.asp

Lexicon of Early Modern English:

open source shakespeare

Britannica's guide to Shakespeare: 


Virtual Shakespeare

Pre-20th Century Critics on Shakespeare

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


The Original Pronunciation

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