Kent's Shakespeare Resources

Surfing with the Bard is the best Shakespeare site I've seen--easy to navigate, a lovely sense of humor, and really useful information.

This page offers a huge collection of Shakespeare information.

You can find more Skakespeare on this great site.

Bruce Spielbauer, a teacher in the ChicagoLand area, has put together Shakespeare for the Rest of Us. This is a great resource for both the teacher and student of Shakepseare. Spielbauer has put together a workingman's Shakespeare--one that everyone can understand.

Take a glance at the reconstructed Globe Theater
Or for another perspective click here.

Falcon Education Linkscontains some great materials on Hamlet and Macbeth and--as I say on my Education Links Page--one of the coolest Shakespeare images around. It is also a great K-12 educational resource.

Shakespeare's Diary gives a first-hand view of what it might have been like to be the bard.

Romeo and Juliet

• Go to the Official Romeo and Juliet Film site (1996 version, that is).
• The text of Romeo and Juliet.
• Study Questions for R & J.
• Western Canon University offers a Romeo and Juliet Port where one can discuss certain topics related to the play. Could be a neat experience.
• Here you will find a very good and informative synopsis of Romeo and Juliet. Offers some pertinent historical background.

  Romeo and Juliet peripheral information

  
  
  • A short tour of Verona, Italy.
  • Learn about the Franciscans, the order to which Friar Laurence belongs.
  • The story of these two "star-crossed lovers" came to Shakespeare through Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which we find the story of Pyramus and Thisby--two young lovers with nothing better to do than run away and kill themselves. Shakespeare puts a playful turn on this ancient story in A Midsummer's Night's Dream.

    

    Julius Caesar

    
    
    • Julius Caesar for the beginner.
    • Here you can find a paraphrase of the play. Good for young readers!
    • The complete play
    • A short history of Caesar's early life.
    • Another short biography (seems no one but Shakespeare had much to say about the man).
    • Caesar's own words about the Gallic (and other) Wars which made him the man he was--a man who bragged about his war heroics.
    • Finally, learn about the man who defeated Gaul and Pompey and was sliced and diced by feeling the bumps on his head (actually the bumps on a bust of Caesar)--the ancient and very unscientific art of phrenology.

    Peripheral Julius Caesar info

    
    
    • The ancient Romans in this play practiced Stoicism, a type of philosophy.
    • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers a more in-depth overview of Stoicism
    • The beginning of Julius Caesar takes place during Lupercalia, an ancient fertility festival.
    • Another Lupercalia site.

    
    

    Macbeth

    
    
    • Jen's Macbeth Page has a whole buncha good stuff for students! Check it out!
    • This Macbeth site provides an in-depth look at the play.
    • Here you will find Chinese translationsof Macbeth...and Hamlet, which is good, if you can read Chinese.*s*
    • Finally, for a bit of sci-fi and music check outMacbeth: A Space Rock Opera. Who says Shakespeare is outdated?
      

      Macbeth Peripheral information

      
      Macbeth's family tree. It's rather short!

      
      Many people believe that someone other than Shakespeare wrote all thos plays and poems. Find out what they think on the Shakespeare Author Problem Page.
      At this site you can learn what words are used most frequently in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Lear. Useless info, but interesting. Know what I mean?

      You can even let the Bard Insult you.

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