ELIZABETHAN THEATER LINKS
 
 
The five categories of links below take you to readings and resources that will assist you in: a) answering questions from the Short Answer Exercises in Unit 2 and, 2) participating in the Lecture and Discussion Classroom.
 
 THE RENAISSANCE 
Apprentices and Guilds 
Apprenticeship: Experience What It's Like 
Daily Life in the Renaissance 
Daily Life and Role of Children in the Renaissance 
Education 
Elizabethan Clothing 
Elizabethan Laws 
Elizabethan Monetary Equivalents 
The Horn Book Used By School Children 
Hygiene in the Renaissance 
The Plague 
The Plague and Public Health In Renaissance Europe 
Popular Amusements and Entertainment 
Pronunciation 
Puritans 
Queen Elizabeth: Brief Biography 
Queen Elizabeth I

 

 
ELIZABETHAN STAGECRAFT 
Costumes and Sets in Shakespeare's Theater 
The Globe Theater: Tale of Its Construction 
Globe Theater History 
Hamlet: A Production Notebook 
Lord Chamberlain's Men 
Lord Chamberlain's Men (another resource) 
Lord Chamberlain's Men & The King's Men 
Staging Plays at the Original Globe & the Restored Globe
 
ELIZABETHAN PLAYWRIGHTS 

Biography of William Shakespeare 
Biography/Timeline of William Shakespeare 
Documents/records from Shakespeare's Life 
Shakespeare Resource Center 
William Shakespeare 

 

 
TEXTS 
Complete Works of Shakespeare 
Hamlet 
Annotated Hamlet (with definitions of words) 
Detailed Summary of Hamlet & Commentary
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 

 Glossary of Unusual Words in Shakespeare 
How to Watch a Shakespearean Film 
Image of the Swan Theater 
Model of the Globe Theater 
Present Day Restoration of the Globe Theater 
Shakespeare's Last Will & Testament