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Shakespeare:

  • http://www.ludweb.com/poetry -- Shakespeare’s poems and more
  • http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/ -- said to be one of the best
  • http://www.reading.ac.uk/globe/ -- the Globe reconstruction site--news, pictures of the new Globe, play schedule
  • http://www.shakespeare.uiuc.edu -- the American Globe site--much here for teachers, especially
  • http://www.marketing.net/com/stratford/tourmsb.html -- a virtual tour of Stratford with many Shakespeare sites
  • http://www.bardware.com/bardware/index.html -- a fun site with links to others
  • http://castle.uvic.ca/shakespeare/ -- a highly recommended one, gives Shakespeare's life and times
  • http://ren.dm.net/compendium/home.html -- a great site, with information about money, clothing, shopping, marriage, lots of stuff in Elizabethan England
  • http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html -- if you're wondering how the Bard's immortal words were pronounced in his day, this site will tell you
  • If you'd like to send a free virtual Shakespeare postcard to someone, click here for the Poor Yorick Store
  • A good gateway to Shakespeare on the Internet with its links. Also has a Shakespearean timeline and the Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare for children
  • Has the texts in their original spelling (with line numbers)
  • Virtual tour through Shakespeare's life
  • A visit to the new Globe with information about the first one
  • The premiere library for Shakespeare holdings; site tells about current exhibitions as well
  • A high school site
  • Best selection of films of Shakespeare plays
  • Interactive lessons
  • Explores a single scene from Hamlet
  • Just what it says--illustrations from 1760 to 1900

    Women's Poetry

  • http://www.akron.infi.net/~ddisse -- if you think there weren't any women writers before l600, then check out this site, which lists eighty from around the world

    Emily Dickinson:

  • http://www.planet.net/pkrisxle/emily/dickinson.html --one of the best, has various links, plus her black cake recipe
  • http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~emilypg/ -- Virtual Emily--has pictures of her family, home, gravesite

    Literature in general:

  • http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html

    Places you can see live Shakespeare in the summer:

  • the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Louisville--this summer they're doing Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, inspired, no doubt, by Shakespeare in Love--e-mail at kyshakes@kyshakes.org.
  • Also, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival-- call 6l5 255-2273.
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