ALL (Some of these are already listed under your individual projects.)
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-life.htm
1. WHO WAS SHAKESPEARE?
The websites below should help you answer the following questions, which come from http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webshakespera.html#resources :
These are basic questions of who? what? where? when? why? and how? Be creative in exploring the information so that you answer these questions as fully and insightfully as you can.
1. What is the Shakespeare authorship problem?
2. What literary, cultural, and political figures doubt that Shakespeare was the sole author of the work?
3. Make a chronological history of the doubts that surround the authorship of the Shakespearean canon.
4. Now do the same for the doubts surrounding the Stratfordian attribution.
5. Make a list of the six contenders for the authorship question. Then add to each as much significant evidence that is presented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question (just a beginning, but a good introduction)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webshakespera.html#resources (Several of these links don’t work, but a lot do. You can always use other sites.)
http://www.bardweb.net/debates.html
http://shakespeareauthorship.com
2. GREAT CHAIN OF BEING
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
Political implications (scroll down):
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html
3. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon
Scroll down for the best parts:
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biography-stratford.htm
4. SHAKESPEARE’S LONDON
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-london.htm
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/27.html
5. ELIZABETHAN WOMEN AND FAMILY LIFE
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-family-life.htm
6. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
http://www.folger.edu/documents/marriagenew.pdf
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-marriages-and-weddings.htm
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-wedding-dress.htm
7. ELIZABETH I AND THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/queen-elizabeth-i.htmhttp://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/introelizperiod.html
http://www.bartleby.com/65/el/Elizbet1Eng.html
Daily life:
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-daily-life.htm
8. FOOD
Banquets and Feasts:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Banquetsandfeasts.html
Food and Drink:
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-food.htmhttp://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizfood.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/foodanddrink.html
9. MEDICINE
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-medicine-and-illnesses.htm
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanmedicine.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Medbelprac.html
Plague:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/plague.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Greatplagues.html
10. THE FOUR HUMOURS (or “humors”—try both in a search)
http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/gdumler/English%205A/Middle%20Ages/four_humors.htm
http://shakespeare.learnhub.com/lesson/4423-about-the-elizabethan-era-and-the-four-humors
11. MEN AND WOMEN’S CLOTHING AND FASHIONS
Men and Women’s Fashions:
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/fashionwm.html
Women’s clothing:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/womensfashion.html
Men’s clothing:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/mensfashion.html
Hairstyles:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/hairstyles.html
12. THE GLOBE (and other) THEATERS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Globe.html
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/theatre.html
Other theaters:
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhouses.html
13. COSTUMES AND SETS IN SHAKESPEAREAN THEATER
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/shakespeare.html
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/1600to1630a.htm
14. RENAISSANCE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
* I have some Renaissance music on CD if you want to use it…
Good start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Elizabethan_Era
Elizabethan Music:
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-music.htmhttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/elizabethan-music.html
Strings, brass, and wind instruments:
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/musicalinstruments.html
Songs:
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/songs.html
15. INVENTIONS IN THE 1500s AND 1600s
http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Sixteenth.htm
16. SPORTS AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENT
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-entertainment.htm
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/amusements.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/sportsandentertainment.html
17. PROPER ELIZABETHAN SPEECH (and curses?)
Forms of address:
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/address.html
Pronunciation and language:
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/drills.html
Terms and slang:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/history/elizlng.html
Insults:
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/insults.html
http://www.museangel.net/insult.html
18. KING JAMES BIBLE
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Kingjamesbible.html
19. CRIME, PUNISHMENT, TORTURE!
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/everylife.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/crimeandpunishment.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Torturepun.html
20. ARCHITECTURE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/HistLizArch.html
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/architecture.html
21. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biography-stratford.htm