Shakespeare Resource Center

Discover the best the web has to offer for your studies in Shakespeare - The Shakespeare Resource Center is your portal to the best the web has to offer:

You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find your sources. You could also buy a book or something to further your learning experience and help support the site, but that's up to you.

The e-mail policy of the Shakespeare Resource Center is simple: the SRC will not provide answers to questions about homework, paper topics, interpretations, etc. The purpose of this site is to provide links to aid you in your online Shakespeare research; it's not meant to provide you a personal research assistant. But for the most burning questions, why not Ask the Bard?

Orsino's speech on music and love from Twelfth Night is the latest addition to Speech Analysis: Ten Readings.

Ye Olde Contents

Shakespeare's Biography

A brief biography of William Shakespeare, from his baptism to the inscription on his tomb at Holy Trinity in Stratford.

Shakespeare's Works

A summary overview of the four periods of Shakespeare's works, including links to online editions of the plays and Shakespearean criticism.

Shakespeare's Language

Links and a Shakespeare Resource Center guide to the Bard's English—including a searchable glossary. Also includes a new Speech Analysis: Ten Readings section exclusive to the SRC.

Shakespeare's Will

Shakespeare's very own last will and testament, complete with stricken-out passages.

Authorship Debate

Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Edward de Vere? Francis Bacon? Christopher Marlowe? Information about and links to the opposing points of view.

The Globe Theatre

A brief history of Shakespeare's Globe from its construction in 1598 to the New Globe, completed in 1996 in Southwark.

Elizabethan England

Because you have to understand England and the times in which Shakespeare lived to appreciate fully the literature.

Shakespearean Study

The most valuable online resources you'll find about Shakespeare (besides this site, of course).

Reading List

For further reading about Shakespeare, because most of the best research resources are still only available in print (something or the other about copyright law).

Theatre Companies

Links to selected theatre companies specializing in Shakespeare, because nothing beats seeing a play live.

Other Links

This is where all the Shakespearean links go that don't seem to fit anywhere else on the site.