Here are assorted Websites that address Shakespeare specifically and will be useful for English 411, Fall 1996:

• Illinois Production Notes on Richard II, including commentary on Holinshed. Thank you, Simone!
• Quoting Shakespeare: A quick guide to quoting verse and prose in Shakespeare's plays--and a cool picture of Richard II!
• Compare two images of Act I, scene i of RII: These nineteenth-century engravings give two possible ways of staging the gage-throwing scene before Richard in Act I.

More general resources for Shakespeare classes:

• Early Modern Studies Resource Page (current site--to be changed, I am told 10/96).
• Shakespeare Homepage
• Entrance to the Shakespeare Web
• Internet Shakespeare resources
• The Public-Domain Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Illustrated

See the new Othello Page!!!

If you are interested in searching the sonnets for English 493, check out the on-line sonnet concordance.

Here are a series of useful sites for literary research generally and for Renaissance research in particular:

• Milton's Paradise Lost on the Web--one version is searchable though I have had trouble getting it to work
• More Milton--essays and the like on line
• On-Line Literary Research Tools
• VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE HOME PAGE
• Voice of Shuttle-- English Literature: Renaissance
• Hypertext and Renaissance Studies

Or you can just take a look at the famous engraving from the Folio.


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