SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHY:

Absolute Shakespeare
  From birth to death, Shakespeare Biography describes all that is known about Shakespeare's life from available documentation including court and church records, marriage certificates and criticisms by Shakespeare's rivals.

Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare's Ancestry: As a brief introductory detail it should be mentioned that, during the sixteenth century, there were many families with the name Shakespeare in and around Stratford. "Shakespeare" appears countless times in town minutes and court records, spelled in a variety of ways, from Shagspere to Chacsper. Unfortunately, there are very few records......

Stratford-Upon-Avon Internet portal
England's greatest poet and playwright was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, the son of a tradesman and Alderman of Stratford, John Shakespeare in 1564. William, the eldest son, and third child (of eight) was baptised...

E-Notes All Shakespeare
Any discussion of Shakespeare's life is bound to be loaded with superlatives. In the course of a quarter century, Shakespeare wrote some thirty-eight plays. Taken individually, ...

SHAKESPEARE THE PLAYWRIGHT, POET, ACTOR:

Brandeis University's excellent website

Moonstruck Drama Bookstore
TRADITION says that this greatest of English-speaking playwrights made his first contact with the theater as a sort of handy man of all work. One of his tasks, according to legend, ...

Electronic Literature Foundation - The Plays of William Shakespeare
Welcome to the Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of the Plays of William Shakespeare. Select the play you are interested in below. Each play has its own search engine, concordance, quotes, and other information.

MIT's Shakespeare site-- very comprehensive
Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

Shakespeare.Com
Shakespeare.com's First Web Folio edition is currently composed of all Shakespeare's plays— poems will join them eventually—and a search engine. First posted 4/17/00, in anticipation of Shakespeare's 436th birthday.

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE THEATRE:

University of Reading on the Globe
This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London, it includes pages...

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Shakespeare's Globe was founded by Sam Sanamaker and is dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance...

Shakespeare from Palomar
An extremely comprehensive website...includes info on productions.

SHAKESPEARE ACTORS:

U.Vic's website re the Bard
An amazing website-- read here about Richard Burbage!

About.com on Shakespeare & his actors
Web sites devoted to great Shakespearean actors and actresses from the past and present, from famed Restoration thespians like Thomas Betterton to great contemporaries like Kenneth Branagh and Ian McKellen.

Bardolatry
A way cool website-- here's the page about great Shakespearean actors

Will the real Will Shakespeare please stand up?

A Beginner's Guide to the Authorship problem...
A great place to start-- and what do YOU think?:

The Edward de Vere Conference website
In the early 1780s, the Reverend Dr James Wilmot, a friend of Dr Samuel Johnson and rector of a small parish church near Stratford-Upon-Avon, went searching for the legacy of England's greatest literary prodigy, an artist of unrivaled achievement whose poetry and drama were renowned but about whose person very little was known. Dr Wilmot searched for years in the poet's environs for information of any kind that...

Shakespeare Oxford Society
Welcome to the Shakespeare Oxford Society, the second oldest continuously operating organization (the Bacon Society dates back to 1886) involved in the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate. The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author ...