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Shakespeare and Elizabethan England

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Web Resources

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
A well-organized collection of links to many Internet sites about Shakespeare including biographical sites, study guides and texts of his works.

Elizabethan England: Everyday Life
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/everylife.html
Websites that cover crime and punishment, entertainment, fashion, food and medicine.

Elizabethan England: Historical Figures and Events
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/histevents.html
Websites that cover such topics and Bloody Mary, the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth I, King Henry VIII and his six wives, and the Tower of London.

Elizabethan England: Shakespeare and His Theatre
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/shakespeare.html
In addition to websites about the man and his plays, the site also includes links to costumes, the Globe and the New Globe.

Elizabethan England in the Time of Romeo & Juliet
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/wjhs/mediactr/englishpathfinder/romeo/
A webquest that provides many links to such topics as clothing, food, games, family and home life, medicine, the Black Plague and Bloody Mary.

Elizabethan Era
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/index.htm
This website provides many links to the history and information about the Elizabethan age including sports, music, clothing and the Spanish Armada.

Elizabethan Era, Immanuel College Library Resource Centre
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/immanuel/htm/elizabethan.htm
Contains links with information about music, society, punishment, architecture, education, religion, theatre, war, and women during the Elizabethan era.

Homework Center - Elizabethan England
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/eurohist.html#eliz
Links to recommended Web resources that have a wealth of information about life in Elizabethan England. Note, also, the links to Elizabethan costumes and Renaissance costumes.

Shakespeare's Life and Times Home Page
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html
This site has biographical information about Shakespeare as well as links to Shakespearean theater, society, history and politics, art and music of Elizabethan England, and texts of his plays.

Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance
http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/ShakSites1.html
Maintained by the University of Victoria, British Columbia, this site is an extensive collection of links to all things Shakespeare organized by topic.

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
http://www.stratford.co.uk/shakespeare.asp
An account of Shakespeare's life provided by the Stratford-upon-Avon Internet portal.

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1558-1603
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html
Includes information about games, food, money, religion, fashion, education, etc. Also includes links to related sites.

Shakespeare, William
http://www.bartleby.com/65/sh/Shakespe.html
This article from the 6th edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia covers Shakespeare's life, his works, and surveys critical opinion of his writings.

Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net/
This collection of links includes a brief biography of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now
http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html
This Encyclopaedia Britannica web site commemorates the reconstruction of London's Globe Theatre where Shakespeare produced his plays. Included are biographies of the playwright.

Shakespeare's Food
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html#shakespeare
Includes common foods, dining customs and recipes, Elizabethan-style Christmas dinners, peasant food, food in Shakespeare's literature, Romeo and Juliet's food, what they ate at the Globe Theater, how to make an Elizabethan cookbook, and Tudor-era desserts.

Reference Books

• Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World  REF 942.05 WAG
• Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare REF 822.33 G

Books

• The Age of Shakespeare  822.33 G
• Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages  355.309 PRE
• Crime and punishment: Law & Order  364 MAC
• Daily Life in Elizabethan England  942.055 SIN
• Elizabethan England (Ashby)  942.05 ASH
• Elizabethan England (Lace)  942.055 LAC
• The Elizabethan Underworld  364.9 SAL
• English Costume in the Age of Elizabeth  391.09 BRO
• English Society, 1580-1680  942 WRI
• Everyone a Witness:  The Tudor Age  941.05 SCO
• A History of Everyday Things in England  942 QUE
• Life in Elizabethan Days  942.05 DAV
• Life in Elizabethan England  942.05 DOD
• The Lion in the North: One Thousand Years of Scotland's History  941.1 PRE
• Old Time Punishments  364.6 AND
• The Pageant of Elizabethan England  942.05 BUR
• Primary Sources: Elizabethan England  942.05 PRI
• Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments  365 ABB
• Shakespeare in His Time  822.33 G
• Shakespeare's England (2 vols.)  822.33 G
• Shakespeare's England (Horizon)  822.33 G
• What Life Was Like in the Realm of Elizabeth  942.055 WHA
• The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England from 1485-1649  942.05 EME