Comic Book Shakespeare
(SLP Educational Publishers) Just what it says - an attempt to make
Shakespeare accessible by presenting his plays in comic book form,
with both the original text (or parts of it) and a modern "translation".
An interesting idea (but the BBC beat them to it with its "animated
Shakespeare"), but the drawings are, to say the least, pretty
basic and uninspiring.
Five Star Publications
Inc
A company producing three books/series of books about Shakespeare:
Sixty Minutes Shakespeare (condensed but unmodernised versions); Shakespeare:
To Teach or not to Teach? (a teacher's manual, which includes cross-curricular
activities); Shakespeare for Children: the Story of Romeo and Juliet.
Lady
Macduff's Home Page
The complete text of Romeo and Juliet, together with some basic info
on Shakespeare's life, something about Shakespeare's Globe and a very
short page of general Elizabethan trivia. The "reviews by visitors"
don't exist, although the form to write them does. A fairly basic
site: internal evidence suggests the author is quite young.
Shakespeare
Breaks
A Stratford hotel and show deal, built around the RSC's productions.
Shakespeare
E-Cards
A collection of rather sentimental e-cards featuring quotations from
Shakespeare. Flash player needed.
Shakespeare In Love
A page on a site devoted to Colin Firth. Lots of detail about life in Elizabethan England, providing a useful intro to the background of Shakespeare's works.
Shakespeare Institute Library
Part of the University of Birmingham and actually sited in Stratford. Covers all that you would need to know about the libary, with a search engine to search the online catalogue.
Shakespeare Modernised
Making Shakespeare's plays more accessible by modernising the language whilst still retaining the structure and the verse. The author has published a number of his versions and full details, with extracts, are here. Interesting!
West Swindon Schools' Shakespeare Festival
A fascinating account of workshop and performance work on Dream and The Tempest with upper primary and lower secondary pupils from Swindon.
Wherefore Art Thou, Will?
An article from the "Guardian" (23rd April, 1999) by Gary
Taylor, Head of the Hudson Centre of Renaissance Studies at the University
of Alabama, in which he argues that Shakespeare's cultural significance
is declining.
