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Hamlet Tools

Hamlet

Hamlet. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest.

E-Books and Databases

E-Books -  

Arts and Humanities through the Eras  (Gale/Cengage)

Elizabethan World Reference Library  (Gale/Cengage)

Shakespeare for Students  (Gale/Cengage)

Databases

Websites

Academy of American Poets - Shakespeare page.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare - overview of Shakespeare's life and times, Elizabethan theatre, and the possible source of Hamlet.

Folger Shakespeare Library

Hamlet on the Ramparts - provides access to filmed treatments of Hamlet along with images and text.

Sitemap of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - helpful for plot overviews, theatregoing practices in Shakespeare's time, and biographical information about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and the early modern English theatre

Shakespeare Online - provides brief information on many aspects of your research, including "the revenge code" and sources for Hamlet.

Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page - helpful for information on the "Authorship Controversy." The purpose of the society is to establish that Shakespeare was not the sole author of Shakspeare's plays.