Research Resources
Research databases
Gale Literature Resource Center
- Password: schools
- Username: Crusaders1
- Password: Crusaders1
Helpful websites to explore (for all topics):
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folgerpedia
British Library: Treasures in Full
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Folgerpedia
British Library: Treasures in Full
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Helpful books and websites by topic:
- Shakespeare and the development of the teenage brain
- How Puberty Changes Your Brain - TED Talk
- Teens Aren't Just Risk Machines
- Teenage Brains Are Malleable and Vulnerable
- Experts Link Teens Brains' Immaturity, Juvenile Crime
- The Distracted Teenage Brain
- Fear Prompts Teens to Act Impulsively
- Why It's Time to Lay the Stereotype of the "Teen Brain" to Rest
- The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter
- Directing, Acting, and Staging Shakespeare
- Shakespeare, Gender, and the Role of Women
- WILLA: Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender
- British Library: Shakespeare and Gender
- Why Weren't Women Allowed to Act In Shakespeare's Plays?
- Folger Library on Queen Elizabeth I
- World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre
- Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis
- Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor
- Educational value of Shakespeare
- School Library Journal: To Teach or Not to Teach?
- The Lure of Shakespeare
- The Legacy of William Shakespeare
- The History of Shakespeare in American Schools
- Why Shakespeare's Stories Still Resonate
- William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time by Andrew Gurr
- Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells
- Shakespeare's Wordcraft by Scott Kaiser
- Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells
- Theater & the Globe Theatre
- The Globe website
- The Globe virtual tour
- World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre
- Folger Library: Shakespeare's Theater
- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
- Shakespeare's Playhouses
- World History Encyclopedia: Elizabethan Theatre
- Folger Library: Shakespeare's Theater
- Encyclopedia Britannica: The Elizabethan Stage
- Shakespeare's Staging
- Shakespeare's Early Days: Crash Course Theater
- Shakespeare and the Players by C. Walter Hodges
- Shakespeare in His Age by F.E. Halliday
- William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time by Andrew Gurr
- Shakespeare in Performance, ed. by Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason
- In the Steps of Shakespeare by Russell Thorndike
- Shakespeare by Michael Wood
- Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine
- Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis
- Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor
- Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History, ed. by Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson
- William Shakespeare: His Life and Times by Dennis Kay
- Shakespeare: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More by Charles Boyce
- Courting and marriage customs
- Marriage and Courtship
- Shakespeare's Staging: Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespearean Dating Tips (YouTube)
- Shakespeare in His Age by F.E. Halliday
- Shakespeare by Michael Wood
- Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine
- Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis
- Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor
- The role of the church and religion
- Shakespeare and Religion
- World History Encyclopedia: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement
- Hartford Stage: Religion in Elizabethan England
- Shakespeare by Michael Wood
- Life in Elizabethan Days by William Stearns Davis
- Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor
- Shakespeare: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More by Charles Boyce
- Weaponry
- Elizabethan Street Fighting
- Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: The Weapons of War
- Folger Shakespeare Library: Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare
- British Library: The Violence of Romeo and Juliet
- Elizabethan Weapons
- Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare
- Stage Combat on the Elizabethan Stage
- The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia by The Diagram Group
- Shakespeare's England, ed. by Editors of Horizon Magazine
- Shakespeare's Restless World: Portrait of an Era by Neil MacGregor
- Elizabethan medicine
- Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare's England
- 'He Didn't Flee': Shakespeare And The Plague
- Shakespeare and the Four Humors
- Medicine in the Time of Shakespeare
- Elizabethan Medicine
- Early Modern England: Medicine, Shakespeare, and Books
- Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History by Steve Parker
- The Cambridge History of Medicine, edited by Roy Porter