English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)

This site is provided by the Official Website of the British Monarchy. History is one of the contents. It is categorized into The Monarchy Toay, The Royal family, Hostory, Art & Residence and insight magazines.

History: Information detailing contents of History of the Monarchy. The Monarchy is the oldest institution of government in the United Kingdom. The Major categories are divided into England, Scotland, United Kingdom sections and these are divided into the sub categories, by era. Users also search according to date in the range of 849- 1901. This is mainly a place the focus on King's biography and big events under the reign of king so that some informations are extremely short.

This is an excellently presented resource on the kings and queens of England, Scotland, and the UK from the original Anglo-Saxon kings to present day. Contains information about Queen Elizabeth I and the foreign policy, arts, economy, and government during her reign.

URL : http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp

Keyword(s) : shakespeare, history, british, monarchy

English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

Shakespeare's World at Emory University is a collection of pictures and illustrations about or influenced by Shakespeare's work. This site consists of two separate sites, "Shakespeare and the Players" and "Shakespeare Illustrated".

"Shakespeare and the Players" provides a collection of postcards related to Shakespeare or his play productions. There are many photographs of actors and actresses and production scenes on these postcards, which become a valuable source for studying the history of Shakespeare theatre. They are many of the unknown and unfamiliar actors and actresses who played for the late Victorian and Edwardian audiences. You can look up these pictures by the actor's name or by the play. Also another interesting way is to find out which actors played in which role. All of these pictures have a description and specific dates.

"Shakespeare Illustrated" explores nineteenth-century paintings of Shakespeare's plays, or influenced by them. This site aims to explore how literature influenced art, and art influenced literature. Like "Shakespeare and the Players" this site is categorized in two sections: plays and artists. All of the paintings have an explanation of the work and the artist, and of course the specific date. This site is a work in progress so many more will be updated in the future.
Both of these sites have a search engine for the user's convenience.

URL : http://www.shakespeare.emory.edu/index.html

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, plays, paintings, pictures

English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This site is for students in grades 6-12. It does not touch the subjects in depth but gives an overall view of the Elizabethan age (1558-1603). This website created by a retired Drama/ Language Arts treacher in 2001, developed for an 8th grade Shakespeare Unit. Considering the object of this site, it contains very useful teaching materials for the beginner students to attract their interest in Shakespeare's age. Easy to view and a lot easier to understand with important information.

The topics are varied with world events happened in England, America and the world in the forms of noticeable charts, fashions of both men and women with useful dress terms and especially interesting pictures of the poor and rich dress modes. In Everyday Living: this site show the lives of the city of London and the country. In Recreation and Sports, this site introduce blood sports such as bear and bull baiting and team sports like football and hurling, also fencing and hawking are also introduced. In Crime and Punishment, this site explain the Elizabethan age had extremely severe penalties for stealing, murdering, or committing treason, and the such lawbreaking activities were different for whether this site were poor or rich, commoner or noble. They show various types of punishments with pictures and short descriptions. This also make some notice to the Plague, the black death which was hopeless and epidemic disease in the time.

Interesting and brief. good for the teenage students!

URL : http://www.tomecek.com/jay/

Keyword(s) : shakespeare, history, elizabeth, elizabethan culture, 

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)

This cite is all about Elizabeth I. It provides interesting and educational information on the life and times of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Therefore, some of more complex issues of the Queen's reign may appear to have been superficially treated.
It contains information about Queen Elizabeth I including a brief biography, early years, marriage, wardrobe, pastime, portrait, government, the Spanish Armada, death, and her quotes. You can see lots of her portraits in her gallery, and this is also linked to The National Portrait Gallery. We also can learn she was a great fashion follower in her times, find the facts that she loved to horse ride, hawk, hunt (noticing the Elizabethans had no concept of animal cruelty), and participate in outdoor sports. She also loved music and literature, and you can also read two poems written by her.

This site is also offering information of phenomenon caused by the influence of Elizabethan I to her world such as Elizabethan women, all of the Queen's men, church, court life, Elizabethan Europe and so on. We can learn the England of her was a very structured place and had a rather complicated system of government. The influences of nobility and gentry were also very important. This provide the detailed information on the background of Reformation and Elizabethan Church and Catholics. It is worthwhile to consider she was a virgin queen in the times it was a patriarchal society, having very clear expectations of men and women. They also interestingly introduce men who had a relationship with her such as Robert Dudley.

This site also has many link sites that attempt to be a complete annotated guide to the resources on Elizabethan age such as complete works, study guide, Screen Queens, Novels of Elizabeth, Biographies of Elizabeth. In Screen Queens, you can enjoy the introduction on a number of films made on the life of the Virgin Queen including the first screen portrayal of her titled Queen Elizabeth and the latest Elizabeth. This site has some link site to buy the video tapes available. This site also provides lists of books about Queen.

Last updated 07 December 2006.

URL : http://www.elizabethi.org/

Keyword(s) : shakespeare, history, elizabeth, 

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Literary History

This is a wonderful site that has links to various information about the Elizabethan Era.
The links are in these following categories:
General links- provides links to sites about Shakespeare and Elizabethan England.
Architecture- Renaissance and Baroque architecture, Tudor architecture sites that provide information and pictures are linked here.
Clothing and dress- Elizabethan costume pages are linked. They include clothing, fabric, hairstyle, accessories in different classes, and even armor.
Crime and punishment- Sites about Elizabethan law and punishments.
Childhood and Education- Education of Shakespeare and his time. Also education of girls.
Food and drink- Medieval and Renaissance food and brewing. Elizabethan food sites are linked.
Miscellaneous- a compendium of common knowledge site, sites about sports and health at that time.
Music and art- music and art in England, pictures and description of musical instruments.
Religion and Philosophy- About religion and especially the Puritan movement.
Biography –Royalty- History of the british Monarchy, Especially there are many sites about Tudor England.
Other categories are Theatre, War and battles, Women and family.

The site has a very good structure, and the links are very clear. But many links are broken.

URL : http://www.schools.ash.org.au/immanuel/htm/elizabethan.htm

Keyword(s) : shakespeare, elizabethan, history