Here, "Educating Shakespeare" looks at what education was like in Shakespeare's time and how his schooldays influenced his works. And in "The Library" there's a guide to sources of information on Elizabethan education.
Quick, basic info about the audience, actors, costumes, special effects & staging
A traditional theory of physiology in which the state of health--and by extension the state of mind, or character--depended upon a balance among the four elemental fluids: blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and black bile.
Primary references on period swordfighting are difficult to locate and even more difficult to purchase. Fortunately, a small band of enthusiasts is addressing the problem, by laboriously transferring these rare texts to the Web.