Shakespeare

For the past two decades, the MIT Global Shakespeare Project has been at the forefront of efforts to use modern technologies as tools for understanding the continuing relevance of Shakespeare in the modern world. Today, the project has reached new levels of sophistication in creating what is arguably the world’s most ambitious, interactive, and culturally diverse digital archive of Shakespearean materials in all media: the MIT Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive. Through the archive and focused educational initiatives the project is playing a major leadership role internationally in moving Shakespearean scholarship and teaching toward new models that draw from the full range of global theatrical production. Working with a global network of editors and collaborators, MIT’s Shakespeare Project is expanding its collections and developing authoring tools for education that can be easily used at all levels — from advanced scholars to university and high school students and the general public.

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse. Our work honors the fact and demonstrates the diversity of the world-wide reception and production of Shakespeare’s plays in ways that we hope will nourish the remarkable array of new forms of cultural exchange that the digital age has made possible. Global Shakespeares is a participatory multi-centric networked model that offers wide access to international performances that are changing how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world.

Welcome to the Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, a block from the US Capitol. Home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of scholars, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

For many, language is the biggest barrier to understanding Shakespeare.

These black and white images show the house where Shakespeare was born, the writing on his tombstone, and more.

The MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.

This constantly-updated site lists theaters across the world that specialize in performing Shakespeare.

The first complete collection of Shakespeare's plays, from the First Folio of 1623, in their original spelling and orthography, presented in ePub format.

Take a 360 view of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, or download the iOS app for iPhone or iPad.

This site is a complete database of Shakespeare's Monologues. The monologues are organized by play, then categorized by comedy, history and tragedy.

Based on David and Ben Crystal’s incredible book, also called Shakespeare’s Words, this site lets you look up any word instantly. It even features full-text editions of the plays with the definitions linked in!

The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a non-profit professional organization for the advanced academic study of William Shakespeare’s plays and poems, his cultural and theatrical contexts, and the many roles these have played in world culture.

This is an extremely selective and personal dictionary of troublesome words I have found in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another.

Shakespeare Lives is an unprecedented global programme of events and activities celebrating William Shakespeare’s work on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. It is an invitation to the world to join in the festivities by participating in a unique online collaboration and experiencing the work of Shakespeare directly on stage, through film, exhibitions and in schools.

There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find your sources.

Mission: To provide Public Benefit Programs which inspire education and personal development Through the Works of William Shakespeare Relating to history, culture, literature, theatre and art in America.

The Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) was established to provide a forum for the artistic, managerial, educational leadership for theatres primarily involved with the production of the works of William Shakespeare; to discuss issues and methods of work, resources, and information; and to act as an advocate for Shakespearean productions and training.

Staging Shakespeare is series of video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of two plays- 'The Tempest' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. An English teacher also explains how she uses IT resources to engage students.

Learn all you could ever want to know about Elizabethan dress on this website.

Test your knowledge of the Globe Theatre with this quiz!

This list of phrases Shakespeare invented is a testament that the Bard has had a huge influence on the English language.

This fun insult generator comes up with actual insults from Shakespeare’s work, including the name of the work from which each is taken.

Test your knowledge of the Great Bard by trying our grueling Shakespeare Quiz.