General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
English Literature->Drama->Europe & others
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

This site is Iain Fisher's personal page providing introductory information on Athol Fugard. This site is exceptional in that it gives the useful annotation of Fugard's works and his background.

Ian Fisher organizes the characteristics of Fugard's works by the times and epitomizes several terminologies to understand his plays easily. In addition, Ian attempts to introduce a complete annotated guide to the scholarly resources available and present useful books and articles. Many interesting pictures related with Fugard are noticeable, too. This abundant information is very useful to the beginners who study him and his works.

This site is convenient for users to search information through the search system. what leaves something to be desired is that this page has no any text of Fugard.

URL : http://www.iainfisher.com/fugard.html

Keyword(s) : Athol Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys, The Blood Knot, Hello Boesman and Lena, Klaas and the Devil , The Cell,  No-Good Friday , Nongogo, The Coat

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Literary History
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

This website maintained by the University of Liverpool contains a very large amount of resources on Theater. This site has seven categories grouped by period and devoted specifically to theatrical facts and papers : Ancient Theatre, Medieval Theatre, 16th century, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th. Users can search information about many authors and works. However, because this site has no searchable system or a well organized list of articles, users themselves have to scan through all the sections listed on this site. This site also offers a dictionary of terminology related to the drama genre.

URL : http://www.theatredatabase.com/

Keyword(s) : theater, Ancient Theatre,  Medieval Theatre,  16th century,  17th century,  18th century,  19th century,  20th century, Drama

English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"'s first production was in 1966 in Edinburgh, Scotland. After this play was produced in London and New York it became an international sensation and Stoppard is now considered one of the most important modern playwrights.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is a re-writing of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" focusing on the these two insignificant characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In this play Hamlet is not the hero but these two are. This is a absurdist like comedy, which makes you think up Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

This site, "Book Rags" is a study guide for this work.
These are its contents.
Introduction of the work and a brief author biography.
Plot summary and summaries by chapter. Also it provides an annalysis by chapter.
Description of major and minor characters.
About the themes of the work and also style.
Historical context.
Critical overview and criticism. They provide three critical essays about this play.
Media Adaptations- This play was made into film in 1990, starring Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz.

There are many other study guides on the web. Another good site is Sparknotes.com, which gives a completely free study guide.

URL : http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-rosencrantzguildenstern/

Keyword(s) : drama, Tom Stoppard, drama, shakespeare, re-write, modern

General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film

This site offers various large sized pictorial images according to subdivided themes such as theater, the image of front page in original text, portrait, quartos, map, authors and so on.

The detailed contents are like this
*Virtual Tour of Shakespeare's Birthplace;Exterior, Garden, Living Room, Fireplace, Kitchen, Room in which Shakespeare was born.
*Shakespeare's Theater; Globe, Theaters of London, Richard Burbage, Shakespeare's Will.
*Text Quartos; sallied/sullied/solid, Titus Andronicus (1594), Richard III (1597), Richard II (1597), Romeo and Juliet (1597), Henry IV, Part 1 (1598), Love's Labour's Lost (1598), Much Ado About Nothing (1600),Henry IV, Part 2 (1600), Henry V (1600), Merchant of Venice (1600)
, Midsummer Night's Dream (1600),Merry Wives of Windsor (1602), Hamlet (1603), King Lear (1608), Troilus and Cressida (1609), Pericles (1609), Sonnets (1609),First Folio (1623), Frontispiece, Ben Jonson's Workes (1616), Ben Jonson
*The Shakespearean Stage; Mystery Plays, Traveling Professional Actors, Royal Performances.
*Commercial Theater; The Globe, The New Globe.

URL : http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/student-pages/sdeng/Eng_105A/class3notes.html

Keyword(s) : drama, shakespeare, globe, works

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

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a theater institutions in Chicago, USA. Recipient of the 2008 Regional Theatre Tony Award, Chicago Shakespeare Theater offers the company's work of Shakespeare's plays and [Subscription Series] as well as [World's Sage] and [New Classics]. In addition, Chicago Shakespeare provides [CST Family] service and the education outreach program such as [Team Shakespeare] and [ProfessionalDevelopment & Lifelong Leanrning], which helps Shakespeare come alive for students and teachers in classrooms throughout the Midwest.
It doesn't provide some academic materials, but you can peep the activities of a theatrical company and the backstage.

URL : http://www.chicagoshakes.com/

Keyword(s) : drama, Shakespeare, theatre, performance, company