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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.
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
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
