Shakespeare Research Guide: Web Resources

The Folger Shakespeare Library is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art. Click the Discover Shakespeare link at the top of the page for information on Shakespeare's life, work, theater and more.

From the University of Victoria, ISE provides scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.

UC Berkeley's invaluable database/resources about Shakespeare productions and theater history

Collected web links on William Shakespeare. This site aims to make it a little easier to sort through the millions of websites devoted to Shakespeare.

The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. ERIC comprises two separate but integrated units: a set of tutorials on some of Shakespeare's plays and on the making and selling of books during the Early Modern period; and a database of scanned texts (thanks to the work of SCETI) from Penn's Furness Shakespeare Library.

Compiled and annotated by Jack Lynch, Professor of English at Rutgers University/Newark.

The section of the Luminarium devoted to the English Renaissance, includes a wealth of material on Renaissance writers, including essays, articles and extensive background information.

Extensive information on the world of Elizabethan England.

From UC Santa Barbara, this site is considered to have best set of web links on this topic.