This site includes outline notes that describe the Tudor Revival period in architecture. Also provides some notes over half-timbering (a characteristic of the Tudor Revival), and provides a wealth of example photographs of homes that...

This site provides an extensive list of links to historical information, current practices, and to all aspects of drama and theatre. It truly is a treasure trove for theatre historians and students of the theatre's history.

Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of artwork and objects from the British Museum which represents life in Shakespeare's world.

Access the museum's collection of portraits by the sixteenth-century goldsmith and painter Nicholas Hilliard. Find miniature portraits of many well-known figures from the Tudor and Stuart periods in British history, including Elizabeth,...

Short essay about one of Hilliard's most famous miniatures (Robert Deveraux, second Earl of Essex?) examines the artist's influences, Tudor symbolism, Elizabeth's relationship with the subject of the portrait, and the romantic ideals of...

This site, by a renowned Shakespeare scholar, systematically refutes arguments made by people who argue that someone other than William Shakespeare, most notably the Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare.

A brief synopsis of England's relationship with Spain is included in this overview of Queen Elizabeth's dealings with the rest of Europe.

Information about ten playwrights who were contemporaries of Shakespeare includes some details about their lives in addition to descriptions of their major existing works.

Lesson plan questioning the degree to which Elizabethan audiences believed in destiny and astrology.

Lesson plan uses primary sources, along with Shakespeare's play, to give students insight into how Elizabethans perceived men and women of African descent.

Enlargeable view of a miniature portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, thought to be of Elizabethan favorite Robert Deveraux, allows for a close examination of Hilliard's technique.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about all male actors on the Shakespearian stage. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

An article about the plots around Elizabeth I and her sophisticated spy ring. Archived.

Read about Queen Elizabeth I's (1533-1603) tumultuous life, examine portraits of the time period and read primary source documents.

Mary, Queen of Scots is profiled, who was beheaded by order of Queen Elizabeth I in 1587. Content includes a biography, chronology, numerous images, quizzes of Tudor England, and more.

A brief biography of Thomas Middleton, a contemporary of Shakespeare.

Text of four sonnets from Spenser's "Amoretti" and links to five others.

A list of Middleton's famous quotations, found in Bartlett's book of Familiar Quotations.

This page from the Shakespeare Oxford Society contains a list of the history of doubts regarding the authorship of Shakespeare's works. Organized in chronological order.

This article examines the acting companies involved in the original and early productions of Shakespeare's plays.

This overview of Shakespeare's actors, principally Richard Burbage and his company, includes a list of plays in which the playwright acted as well.

Free-content encyclopedia entry for Nicholas Hillard from Wikipedia.

Here you will find information on the history of the Globe Theatre.