General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)

Absolute Shakespeare is one of the most essential resources for Shakespeare scholars. This site provides not only the full texts of Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and plays, but also the most frequently referred quotes, biography of William Shakespeare, theatre history, and so on. Rather plain text images, but definitely easy to view with not many flashes or clickings. Content is thoroughly examined for the academic viewers. For example, in Summaries, this site serves the detailed summaries divided by act and ideal introduction commented.

This is useful for both studying and teaching materials including summaries, study guides, essays and quizzes. To be efficient, Shakespeare's the most famous 10 plays are separately listed on the right, providing a quick and easy guide with plot summary, commentary, character analysis and essays. All valuable contents are written by editors of the site, not linked to other cites.
Some pictures inspired by Shakespeare's works are interesting but there are only a few. The general but short introduction for Globe theatre is helpful. This site also lists all of the film adaptations of Shakespeare's works, over 250 movies up to the year 2000.

This site is especially recommendable for the students who want to find useful information on Shakespeare in one site. This is ABSOLUTE as it is called.

URL : http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, plays, sonnets, quotes, biography, academic, summary

General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

This is one of the best annotated guides to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Its contents are classified into Shakespeare's history, works, theatre, criticism, and other sources, added performance and festival information on a separate page. Furthermore, you can get as many site links as possible with a short annotation, and its range covers Renaissance literature and theatre, not only Shakespeare.

In the Works section, Study Guides will be very helpful for both teachers and students; providing various study materials such as SparkNotes and a larger series of lectures. In the Criticism section, you can access current lists of Journals and collections such as Early Modern literary Studies (EMLS), English Literary History and Renaissance Forum, and Historical Criticism throughout our literary history from Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Dr. Johnson , Matthew Arnold to William Hazlitt. Introducing Criticism of The Sonnets, this site starts with a guide to the sonnet expanding their explanation further.

If you are in a hurry, you can go right to Best Sites, where all the best sites are shown in a sight mentioned other pages. They are categorized according to the main manu, so it is very convenient to find out useful information.

URL : http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, works, life, theatre, criticism, best sites, renaissance

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

This site examines how film can be used in the classroom to aid the teaching of Shakespeare's works-Hamlet 2000, Twelfth Night, Macbeth. This offers sophisticated commentary on each Shakespeare movie and some technical things. It also has list(linked) of shakespeare movie created by Film Education.

The contents which this site provides are,
SHOP / EVENTS / RESOURCES / LIBRARY / INTERACTIVE / READING / LINKS etc.

You can get many resources online. If you visit "Film Library" on this site, you can see the well-organized basic information for film adaptaions. It's very convinient to use the alphabetical searching. In "READING", you can see the introductory descriptions for the published books concerning film studies. For your convenience, just clicking can lead you to AMAZON site for purchasing each book. Moreover, you can obtain many other addresses of the film-related websites.

URL : http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/shakespeare/

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, film, movie, hamlet, twelfth night, macbeth

English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)

This website is an introduction to John Heywood, known for his drama plays, epigrams and poems. This site presents online texts of his selected works including his poems “A Rose and Nettle”, “The Woodcock and the Daw”, “Of Books and Cheese”, and “A Praise of his Lady.” Besides, a collection of his well-known epigrams is available here. Essays and articles upon Heywood’s works, his biography and bibliographical details are also provided. Moreover, there are his biography and bibliographical details. This site offers useful information to those who are interested in Heywood’s poems and epigrams rather than his plays.

URL : http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/heywood.htm

Keyword(s) : Heywood, John, 16th century, England, Epigrams, English, English drama, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)

This website offers useful information upon works in verse by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) who is well-known for his tragic play, Doctor Faustus. There are online texts of his poems. The site also provides some articles on works of Marlowe. A variety of books about his life and works are briefly introduced with links to web resources. Included are also additional resources upon his famous drama play, Doctor Faustus, which was published in two versions. The site is helpful to students and scholars interested in Marlowe, not just as a dramatist but also as a British poet of the 16th century.

URL : http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

Keyword(s) : Marlowe, Christopher, England, 16th century, Faust, ca. 1540 in fiction, drama, poetry, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600