Resources - Table of Contents
Shakespeare | History and Heraldry
| Stagecraft | Maps
Suggested Reading: Scholarly | For Children
& Educators
Royal Shakespeare Company
| University Musical Society
| University of Michigan
Shakespeare
- Shakespeare.com
- Shakespeare Bookshelf at the Internet Public Library - Full text of all Shakespeare's works.
- Shakespeare Resources - Complete online texts, worksheets and resources for teachers of all grade levels
- Shakespeare for Teachers and Students
- Shakespeare Online - Good site to learn more about sources, topics, criticism and interpretation.
- All Shakespeare - Resources for students, scholars and anyone interested in Shakespeare.
- About.com: British Theatre: Shakespeare
- Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare's Country
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- The Bard's Guide to English History
- Virtual Tour of the Globe Theatre - Views of the reconstruction in London.
- Elizabethan Insult Generator - Funny site where you can generate your own Elizabethan insults.
- Recorded Shakespeare - Record your own, or listen to recordings of scenes.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library
- Shakespeare - Earl of Oxford? - Addresses the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate. The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare.
- A Marathon of Richards and Henrys - an article from The New York Times.
- SparkNotes.com (summaries/analysis):
History & Heraldry
- Wars of the Roses.com
- Wars of the Roses (Encarta)
- House of Plantagenet (Encarta)
- The House of Lancaster (Encarta)
- The House of York (Encarta)
- The Plantagenet Dynasties (1216-1485) (Official British Monarchy site)
- The Lancastrians (Official British Monarchy site)
- The Yorkists (Official British Monarchy site)
- Kings and Queens of England since 802A.D. (Official British Monarchy site)
- The Monarchy Through the Ages (Official British Monarchy site)
- More on Titles (Britannia.com)
- The Law of Arms in Mediaeval England (personal site with references)
- Heraldry (Camelot International)
- Heritage of Britain (Camelot International)
- Heraldry by Joseph C. Wolf
Stagecraft
- Compendium of Elizabethan practices for writers and actors - A guide for theatre practitioners.
- The Internet Public Library Pathfinder: Stagecraft / Technical Theatre - "For people who are interested in the backstage aspects of theatre, whether it be building sets, designing scenery, lighting a show, doing make-up, building costumes, or affecting the mood of a scene through music. This guide is divided into online sources (websites, mailing lists, newsgroups) and print sources."
- The Costumer's Manifesto - Owned by by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D., site provides to links to over 400 pages of costumer resources. Includes a complete index by subject and period.
- The International Theatre Design Archive - From the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, which promotes all aspects of design and production in the performing arts. This site is the beginning of "Project 2000", an attempt to provide an electronic archive to 2000 scenic, costume and lighting designs by the year 2000. Indexed by title, playwright, designer and producer.
- The American Association of Community Theatre
- Backstagejobs.com - Created and maintained by Patrick Hudson, this site is designed to help the "behind-the-scenes" people find work, and to help theatres fill their job openings.
Maps
- Gardiner's
Atlas of English History:
- Extent of the English Conquests in France, AD 1429
- England During the Wars of the Roses
- France at the Accession of Louis XI, 1461 (at Henry VI's imprisonment in the Tower of London)
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection:
- France in 1453 (During Henry VI's reign)
Suggested Reading - Scholarly
- Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. (New York: Oxford, 1998.)
- Beauman, Sally. The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.)
- Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. (New York: Riverside Books, 1998.)
- Borges, Jorge Luis. “Everything and Nothing.” In Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings. Ed. Donald Yates and James Irby. (New York: New Directions, 1964.)
- Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. (New York: Avon, 1969.)
- Clemen, Wolfgang. Shakespeare’s Soliloquies, trans. C. S. Stokes. (London: Methuen, 1987.)
- Johnson, Lemuel A. Shakespeare in Africa and Other Venues: Import and the Appropriation of Culture. (Lawrenceville: Africa World Press, 1998.)
- Jones, Eldred. Othello’s Countrymen, The African in English Renaissance Drama. (London: Oxford University Press, 1965.)
- Kirsch, Arthur, Ed. Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.)
- Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. (New York: Norton, 1974.)
- Lamming, George. “Caliban Orders History.” In The Pleasure of Exile. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.)
- Loomba, Ania. “The Color of Patriarchy: Critical Difference, Cultural Difference, and Renaissance Drama.” In Women ’Race’, and Writing in the Early Modern Period. (London: Routledge, 1994.)
- Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play and Power in Renaissance England. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Reprinted in 1995 by the University of Michigan Press.)
- Norwich, John Julius. Shakespeare’s Kings. (New York: Viking, 1999.)
- Pugliatti, Paulo. Shakespeare the Historian. (New York: St. Martins, 1996.)
- Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History; Shakespeare’s English Chronicles. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.)
- Rackin, Phyllis, and Jean Howard. Engendering A Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories. (London: Routledge, 1997.)
- Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare’s English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd Ed. (Oxford: Oxford, University Press, 2000.)
- Soyinka, Wole. “Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist.” In Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture. (Ibadan: New Horn Press, 1988.)
- Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. (New York: Routledge, 1992.)
Suggested Reading - For Children & Educators
- Boase, Petra. Step-By-Step Face Painting and Dressing Up for Kids. (New York: Smithmark Publishers Inc., 1995.)
- Bellville, Cheryl Walsh. Theater Magic: Behind the Scenes at a Children's Theater. (Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1986).
- Bentley, Nancy and Guthrie, Donna. Putting on a Play: The Young Playwright's Guide to Scripting, Directing, and Performing. (Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1996.)
- Bruun-Rasmussen, Ole and Petersen, Grete. Make-Up, Costumes and Masks for the Stage. (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.)
- Evans, Cheryl (Ed.) and Smith, Lucy. An Usborne Introduction: Acting & Theatre. (London: Usborne Publishing Ltd., 1992.)
- Haley, Gail E. Costumes for Plays and Playing. (New York: Methuen, 1978.)
- Hayes, Ann. Onstage & Backstage at The Night Owl Theater. (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.)
- Hodges, C. Walter. Shakespeare's Theatre. (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965.)
- Huberman, Caryn and Wetzel, JoAnne. Onstage/Backstage. (Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1987.)
- Judy, Susan and Stephen. Putting on a Play: A Guide to Writing and Producing Neighborhood Drama. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982.)
- Langley, Andrew. Shakespeare's THEATRE. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.)
- Lee, Robert L. Everything About THEATRE! The guidebook of theatre fundamentals. (Colorado Springs, CO: Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 1996.)
- McCaslin, Nellie. Shows on a Shoestring: An Easy Guide to Amateur Productions. (New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1979.)
- McCallum, Andrew. Fun with Stagecraft. (Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1982.)