23rd April is celebrated as Shakespeare day
so here are some great free resources for researchers and students
Shakespeare Documented wonderful resource from the Folger Shakespeare library bringing together hundreds manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and later includes imges of legal documents, reviews and some first editions
The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes high quality materials on:Shakespeare's works His plays, life and times.
It includes texts of plays and poens, details on his career and reviews of film performances
A digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio
The British Library Quartos
site contains 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures. You will find background information and details of performance, but the site excels in allowing you to compare different quartos side-by-side using high quality page images.
Discovering literature Shakespeare and Renaissance
marvellous British library study resource containing essays and other materials which set the plays in context
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