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2. Shakespeare

1. There are innumerable Web introductions to Shakespeare! We can list only a few here. Perhaps the best known of all is Terry Gray's Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet. Others of interest include
   William Shakespeare (1564-1616), a page maintained by Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka at Nagoya University
   McGill's Shakespeare Resources Page and
   The Electronic Shakespeare.

2. Another, very rich on-line introduction to Shakespeare is at UVic, as part of their Internet Shakespeare Edition site. This includes a listing of Shakespearean and Renaissance links, a page dealing with Shakespeare's life and times. Also, the Shakespeare Institute's home page provides information about the institute's degree programmes and links to various research topics and publications with which its academic staff are involved.

3. The on-going project Performing the Queen's Men arose from the 2006 research-performance experiment called Shakespeare and the Queen's Men by a group of scholars and theatre artists from REED and PLS in collaboration with colleagues in academia and the professional theatre in Canada and the United States.

4. The Net, and especially the USENET discussion list humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, has given new life to the authorship controversy, and especially to the Oxfordians, who are using its resources to reach new audiences. An excellent site for an overview of the current on-line controversy is the Shakespeare Authorship Page. It would be a good resource for teachers. The Shakespeare Resource Centre's summary of the Authorship Debate is also worth visiting -- it's a scrupulous attempt to be fair to all sides. Also of interest is the Stromata, another 'pro-Stratfordian' view of the rebirth of the controversy.

5. A site with many interesting annotated Shakespeare links, and one also featuring other useful links for Renaissance writers, is Jack Lynch's Literary Resources -- Renaissance site at Rutgers University.

6. A number of sites focus on Shakespeare in performance: and interesting example is the home page for Actors from the London Stage (formerly ACTER), an innovative resource for teaching and performance in theatre, and especially the works of Shakespeare. Also of interest is the site of the Shakespeare Theatre Associaton of America

7. From a different perspective, try Thomas Larque's site Shakespeare and His Critics, which presents a picture of Shakespeare and his works from older, mostly nineteenth-century, viewpoints.