Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
This is one of Shakespeare's great tragic plays about the rise and fall of the Scottish king Macbeth.  Even though Shakespeare takes great creative license with history, the play has murder, witches, deceit, and some memorable lines.
 
 
 
http://tqd.advanced.org/2888/

This website contains the full text of the play with annotations. The site also contains an interactive discussion board and a plain English version of the text. This site is ideal for that student who is having difficulty with the dialect or perhaps an ESL student.
 
 

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

This is a wonderful site on 16th century Renaissance English Literature with 28 different authors including Sir Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, and Edmund Spencer to name a few. Each author has biographical information, photos, essays, articles, and additional sources
plus numerous links. Also, this site features essays and articles on the Renaissance Period with many historical links.
 

http://tudor.simplenet.com/

This website is fabulous for historical information on the Tudor Monarchy. There are individual sites for Henry VI, Henry VII, the six wives of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.  The site also includes famous tudor architecture with pictures, chronologies, maps, and facts about life in Tudor England. A nice feature of this site is a student guide with helpful
links.

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Glo

This site contains information about Shakespeare's Globe Theater and gives a virtual reality look at the Globe then and now.  It site also describes the rebuilding of the Globe plus historical timelines.

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