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Elizabethan England  
Created by the senior English Literature/Composition students at Springfield High School (IL). Very nicely done.

Encyclopedia Britannica Presents Shakespeare and the Globe
Includes the Globe, other theaters, playwrights and actors of the time, and  purported authors of Shakespeare's plays.

Life in Elizabethan England

Britain Express: Tudor England
Links to Elizabethan Life, Church, Theatre, and Spanish Armada

Tudor History
Pictures of Elizabeth I, recipes

William Shakespeare Info Site Map
Links to the Life of Shakespeare, World of Shakespeare, and the Works of Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Life and Times
Also includes James I, the stage, Lord Chamberlain's Men

A Shakespeare Timeline
Scroll down and click on Summary Chart for an easy to read chart of what was happening during Shakespeare's life, when works were written, and world events.

Shakespeare Online.com
Shakespeare's biography, theaters and quotations.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Dozens of links to pages on specific topics, including authorship debate and criticism.

The Shakespeare Mystery
Links to articles on the authorship controversy.

Renaissance Image Gallery  
A collection of pictures from the Renaissance arranged in categories Court Culture, Urban Life, and New Worlds/New Science.

The Shakespeare Globe Center
Modern reconstruction of the Globe

Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique

Life of Women in Tudor England

The London Plague of 1665

A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640

The Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Primary source accounts describing the plague in Italy, 1348

Web Gallery of Art:  Nicholas Hilliard

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier 

Picture Credits:
"The Ermine Portrait" by Nicholas Hilliard, 1585
From the collection of the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House

Last updated: January 13, 2009