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Not Of An Age, But For All Time. That Means Now.

Is anybody ever really an expert in Shakespeare?  There are so many facets to the man, the time period, the plays he wrote... no one can truly claim to have a handle on it all.  If anybody does, just look him straight in the eye and say "I think Queen Elizabeth wrote the plays," and watch his head explode.

The best I'll be able to do here is try to keep track of some of the more interesting Shakespeare resources I find.  I hope they serve you well in whatever it is you might be searching for.

 

Shakespeare News

Wait, hasn't he been dead 400 years?

One of the cool things you may not realize about Shakespeare is just how much he's still a part of our culture. Watch any tv today and you're likely to see a Shakespeare reference. Read the newspaper and somebody every day says "Or, as Shakespeare said..." in an article. He invented a few thousand words we use today, and is the source of many cliches and sayings I'm sure you know.

There's really quite a bit to find, if you know where to look for it.
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Shakespeare Everywhere

When in doubt, link to the Complete Works

The great thing about the public domain is that anybody can do anything with it. So, naturally, when you need content you turn to Shakespeare. For as long as the Net has been up, people have been putting up Shakespeare resources. No list will ever be complete, so here's just a few.
The WWW Globe Theatre
Information about Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, including its history and reconstruction.
Shakespeare's Globe Center
Promoting activities that encourage people to see Shakespeare's work as works of theatre to be experienced, not simply as works of dramatic literature to be read.
The Globe of the Great Southwest
Replicas of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Anne Hathaway's Cottage on the campus of Odessa College, Texas.
Old Globe Theatre
Built in 1935, as part of the California Pacific International Exposition, for the presentation of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, the Globe is San Diego's largest arts institution and among the nation's top-ranked regional theatres.
Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern
An experience centered on the passion and poetry of the spoken word, with live music, hand-crafted period costumes, and outrageous sword fights.
Wikipedia on Shakespeare
There was a time when if you wanted to know something, you went to the encyclopedia. Now, you go to the Wikipedia.

Shakespeare Video

Sometimes it's high school productions, sometimes hundred year old silent movies. Always interesting to see what YouTube turns up!
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Shakespeare Merchandise

The great thing about being 400 years old is that your image and everything you ever wrote is in the public domain. So people go a little nuts putting your likeness on everything from t-shirts to boxer shorts.
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See the Movie

Forget what your English teacher told you.

Shakespeare's wrote plays, he didn't write novels. They are meant to be performed and seen, not read and memorized. Sit back and watch the movie. Some of them are great stuff. Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo is surprisingly good for a modern interpretation. I hear that Jennifer Connelly is coming out in a new Macbeth soon, too.
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Selling Shakespeare

Need something with Shakespeare on it?

Maybe it's a coffee mug you're looking for, or a rare copy of Venus and Adonis. You never quite know what you'll find on eBay.
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ddmorin

I'm a computer geek, born and bred, but there's lots of those in the world.  I'm also a big Shakespeare fan, and there's less of those (note I didn't... more »

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