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"It was a Lover and his Lass" Morley. Played by the Musicians of the Globe.
This page serves as a site of general Shakespeare links for my students and other Bard buffs.
Some useful Shakespeare links:
Here's a few notes I put together on Shakespeare's language.
Streaming Shakespeare: This site has mini-lectures on the Globe Theatre and on Shakespearean staging (by yours truly) and lectures on the background to the history plays (by my colleague Edward Rocklin.) There are streaming videos in high and low resolution, downloadable text files in PDF format, containing notes and suggested further readings, some useful links and downloads for all the software you'll need to view the site (if you don't have it already).
The world has lost Sir John Gielgud, one of the greatest Shakespeareans of the twentieth century. But you can still hear his magical melodious voice here, reading Shakespeare's sonnets. There's also some more information on him here.
Bardware.com--everything you did or didn't want to know about Shakespeare.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. Links to everything, biographical material, facsimile texts, etc.
The Globe theater in
London. Here you can browse a "best guess" reproduction of Shakespeare's
theater, look at the current productions, and even take a virtual tour!
An introduction to Shakespeare's Life and Times, at the University of Victoria.
Everybody always wants to know if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Well, now, thanks to my colleague Dave Kathman, you can. Dave is pro-Shakespeare as Shakespeare, but he does answer the Oxfordian and other claims in detail, so if you're curious, click here.
The University of Victoria. The home of the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
The Folger Shakespeare Library. Biggest collection of Shakespeareana in the country.
The Huntington Library and Art Museum. Located close to us in San Marino, it's second only to the Folger and contains unique items.
The Shakespeare MoviePlex. Compare scenes from different versions of the same play (as of 2/19/03, the closet scene in Hamlet).
Shakespeare Festival LA. A late spring/summer festival, this is very good (and very inexpensive) Shakespeare. Ticket prices run as low as one donated canned good.
The Pasadena Shakespeare Company. Currently on hiatus, they will be coming back soon.
The Knightsbridge Theater. Also in Pasadena, they perform both Shakespeare and other classic drama. They have also just opened a brand-new theater in LA and are performing in both spaces.
A Noise Within. More excellent Shakespeare and classical theater in repertory in Glendale.
The LA Women's Shakespeare Company. Shakespeare as it was never performed.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Outdoor Shakespeare in Topanga Canyon. Summers (for obvious reasons). *A Midsummer Night's Dream* every year, and other plays.
NB--movies can take a long time to load, so if you have a slow modem, you might like to try checking these links out in the school labs.
Antony and Cleopatra
Internet Shakespeare edition Anthony and Cleopatra. Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra. The Cleopatra costume through history. Some real history, and a stone bust that will disappoint you.
Watch this space for a wide variety of Hamlet links.
The Hamlet homepage. Pictures of every major actor who played Hamlet, at least this century.
Hamlet movie links (Kenneth Branagh).
The Green Eggs and Hamlet homepage.
Just for fun--Elsinore University. Take the entrance exam and find out your Hamlet quotient.
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh's movie musical version. Here's a link to trailers from the movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Paintings based on the play (there are a lot).
Othello
O. Othello set in a high school. Information at the IMDB site, link to trailers.
Richard III
Here's a link to a very comprehensive Richard III site. History, details, scorecards (really), movie blurbs, you name it.
Twelfth Night
A link to a site about the 1996 movie with Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham-Carter. Includes a trailer.
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