LibGuides: Shakespeare: Websites

Websites

Internet Shakespeare Editions
Extensive resouce. It contains editions of the works both modern and from the folios (plus links to facsimiles of the folios), critical materials (articles and refernce works), details of various performances, and background information.
Open Source Shakespeare
Shakespeare's complete works with a number of useful features such as a concordance, character lists and a variety of search features.
Shakespeare Resource Center
You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies
A digital collection of the first four folios from the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University Libraries.
Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page
Shakespeare Oxford Society is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to exploring the Shakespeare authorship question and researching the evidence that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 – 1604) is the true author of the poems and plays of “William Shakespeare.”

Interior of Shakespeare's Globe

Interior view of the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark, London, England.

Other websites

Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the original The Globe Theatre. The Elizabethan playhouse was located in the London Borough Of Southwark on the south bank of the River Thames and was destroyed by fire in 1613. The modern reconstruction was founded by the American actor and director Sam Wanamaker and built approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre.

Houston Shakespeare Festival
Since its inception in 1975, HSF has entertained nearly a half million theatergoers with free performances in Hermann Park's Miller Outdoor Theatre. Festival audiences are as diverse as Houston itself, with many people experiencing live theatre for the first time.
Royal Shakespeare Company
The RSC is one of the world's best known theatre companies.
Project Gutenberg
Full texts of numerous famous and important books.
Shakespeare's Globe