ElRo Student covering "Othello" should click on the "Humanities and Humanistic Studies" link which will take you to a directory of sublinks. Click on "History," and you will see the topic "History of Slavery."
A directory of Shakespeare resources that breaks down content by subject.
"The PlayShakespeare.com team used the First Folio of 1623 (and Quartos where applicable) and the Globe Edition of 1866 as sources for the texts on this site. We've re-edited and updated these versions to reflect the editorial standards of the PlayShakespeare.com scholarly team, therefore you can rely on the quality and interpretive accuracy of the PlayShakespeare.com texts. A matrix of the editions used to compile the texts can be found here.
Additionally, PlayShakespeare.com is the only place to find Shakespeare's text with proper indentation, which preserves the meter. When reading and performing Shakespeare, it's important to us to see where characters have shared lines in order to preserve the rhythm of speech and the iambic pentameter."
You must register (free) to access the full-text of the plays.
Created and maintained by George Mason University. You'll find hypertext versions of all the Bard's writing (plays and poetry). If you come across words that are unfamiliar (and, we all do), the Concordance (essentially a glossary) provides context and definitions.
This website accompanies an exhibit that celebrates women writers who were contemporaries of Shakespeare, but who have been neglected. "Shakespeare's Sisters" is currently at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC until 5/20/12
The website for Shakespeare's home. Provides some biographical and historical background.
"The mission of the ISE is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience by delivering open-access, peer-reviewed Shakespeare resources with the highest standards of scholarship, design, and usability.
The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) is a non-profit scholarly website publishing in three main areas: Shakespeare's plays and poems, Shakespeare's life and times, and Shakespeare in performance. Since 1996, the ISE website has been an innovator in providing academic resources for the online digital medium."
Maintained by the University of Victoria, Friends of the ISE, and SSHRC.
"A collection of primary and secondary texts that illuminate the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts, theatrical production and criticism." Allows you and your students to see what the original texts look like.
"He is named in only three documents relating to his formative years - was Shakespeare deliberately covering his tracks? Michael Wood goes on a paper trail, looking for the answer to this question."
"The Shakespeare Underground is a podcast series that examines the works and life of William Shakespeare, and explores why there has been doubt about the authorship of the plays, Sonnets, and other poems."
"JURN is a unique search-engine dedicated to indexing free and 'open access' ejournals in the arts and humanities. It has been built by hand over a period of five years. In March/April 2014 the scope of JURN was widened to include other open scholarly publications, such as theses and journals in science, biomedical, business and ecology related topics."
Curated by Alan Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English Department. It's difficult to maintain such a huge online resource directory, so you may find a lot of broken links. The bottom line though: what's there is choice. Lauded by innumerable academic institutions, and imitators (including "Literary Resources on the Net").
The World Wide Web Virtual Library's comprehensive, albeit messy catalog of online history resources representing all corners of the globe. Notice the Primary Source material under #4, "Methods & Materials." This particular index is maintained by Serge Noiret at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. It has been operational since 1993 (founded by Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas), and was last updated in 2013. It was the first WWW-VL index initiated by Time Berners-Lee. The megadirectory, general website (WWW-VL) is also bookmarked.
This is the gargantuan index initiated by Tim-Berners Lee in 1993. It's pilot index was the WWW-VL History Central Catalog (check directory). It's curated by volunteers who have expertise in their fields, and is known for the high quality of its resources. Considering it's size, it's remarkably well organized. Last updated in 2011, so there will be lots of broken links. A remarkable achievement, and well-worth your time. Dedicating even five minutes a week to your subject area will likely yield one or two valuable resources.
ElRo Student covering "Othello" should click on the "Humanities and Humanistic Studies" link which will take you to a directory of sublinks. Click on "History," and you will see the topic "History of Slavery."