Read about how the Renaissance played out in European countries outside of Italy. Users can follow links to further information on the Elizabethan Era, William Shakespeare, the Reformation, and other connected topics.

Learn about the history and motives of the famous Spanish Conquistadors in the New World. Features biographies, pictures, and timelines about the life of the famous European Explorers.

Explore key events from the life of Mary Queen of Scots. There are many easy to use interactive exercises to help test your knowledge of the information you have just read. Great biographical overview, a timeline, and links to...

Part of a larger site on Renaissance literature, this page contains quotes, Elizabeth's writings and speeches, a great biography, essays, articles, images, and more. Very helpful.

Extensive information about William Shakespeare. Includes links to plays and productions, performance history, life and times, events and workshops, pictures and more.

This site from the University of Toronto contains the original text of Marlows'e "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" with in-text notes keyed to line numbers.

This entry is based on "Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe" by T.S. Eliot (1888?1965), from The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1922).

Learn more about Shakespeare's "Hamlet," when you visit this online English Module.

This resource from the Royal Shakespeare Company lists a number of important themes and motifs in Shakespeare's Hamlet, with quoted examples from the play.

An essay describing Middleton's farcical comedies.

An analysis of the style in which Middleton writes.

A brief biography of John Marston's life and career.

Discover London as it was during the time of Shakespeare, a small world, but very ethnically mixed. This article discusses the "uneasy mix of cultures" found in the city around 1600.

This is a Victorian era retelling of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Useful for getting a grip on the plot, or for comparison of language.

Students will compare and contrast the imagery from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with other works of Shakespeare using online resources.

A lesson to help students learn more about Ophelia's mad scenes in Act IV of "Hamlet."

Lesson plan asks students to learn about patterns of imagery in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" through online resources.

This lesson plan explains how to compare and contrast Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with the film West Side Story.

A page containing electronic versions of the famous works of Ben Jonson.

An informative biography of English playwright Thomas Dekker.

Contains electronic versions of many of the works of Thomas Dekker.

Electronic versions of the works of Thomas Middleton.

Contains the text of Shakespeare's last will and testament.

This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...