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Many of the following links were used throughout the editing process. All of them can be useful to anyone interested in Shakespeare and his works.

Bibliographies

Modern Language Association Bibliography

http://www.mla.org/bibliography/

This is a standard bibliography of English and other language literatures with links to articles.

World Shakespeare Bibliography

http://www.worldshakesbib.org/

This provides a comprehensive record of Shakespeare scholarship and productions from 1962 to the present.

Concordances

Open Source Shakespeare’s Concordance

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.com/concordance

OSS is arguably the most useful of any of the concordances, presenting each search result individually with the desired word or phrase highlighted.

The Works of the Bard

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html

The Works of the Bard is a powerful concordance designed for those with a slightly higher level of computing ability.

Other Resources

Early English Books Online

http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home/

EEBO is a digital library of 100,000 English books from 1475-1700 indexed by keyword, author, title, and subject.

Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/

EEBO-TCP allows the user to search some 25,000 early texts by word or phrase.

First Folio

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=firstfolio&PagePosition=3

This site contains a series of photographs of the entire First Folio.

Geneva Bible (1599)

http://www.genevabible.org/

This site allows readers to access scripture in the translation Shakespeare is most likely to have used.

Lexicons of Early Modern English

http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/

This site is a fully searchable database of dictionaries and lexicons from 1480-1702.

Literature Online

http://lion.chadwyck.com/

LION provides a searchable database of over 350,000 works of English and American Literature as well as 208 full-text literature journals.

Oxford English Dictionary

http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl/

The OED is among the most valuable resources to any scholar working in the English language as it provides both historical and current definitions of words.

Oxford Text Archive

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

This site has literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and other languages as well as standard reference works.

Royal Shakespeare Company

http://www.rsc.org.uk/

The RSC website is an excellent resource for those interested in resources relating to theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays (click on the Learning link for many resources and a complete Internet guide).

Royal Shakespeare Company Archive - Pictures and Exhibitions

http://www.rsc.org.uk/picturesandexhibitions/jsp/index.jsp

This URL goes directly to a set of galleries of the RSC’s own productions.

Shakespeare in Quarto

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

This site displays the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.

Shakespeare: Works

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

This site has all of Shakespeare’s plays (but not his poems) without commentary or expository materials. It has links to other sites.

University of Virginia Shakespeare Resources

http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/

This site has transcribed early quartos and the Folio, as well as playhouse promptbooks, modern editions, and criticism.