• > > Shakespeare - live

• Elizabethan theatre in England

• Globe Theatre - Shakespeare’s Globe - virtual tour - study guide - Elizabethan playhouses - playing companies
• First Folio - folio (printing) - early texts of Shakespeare
• Theatre experience in Shakespeare’s lifetime
• Shakespeare’s time - age of Shakespeare - Elizabethan England - chain of being - chain of being (pps) -

• The man and the myth

• Shakespeare for beginners
• William Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s biography -  Shakespeare BL - Shakespeare BBC
• The Shakespeare portraits - Ben Jonson

• > > What happens in the play?

• Dramatic structure - Freytag’s Pyramid (pdf) - Gustav Freytag
• Genres: Comedies - Histories - Tragedies - problem plays
•  Dramatic device: Soliloquy - Monologue - Aside - Dialogue

• > > Shakespeare’s style

• How to read Shakespeare - understanding Shakespeare
• Verse - How to speak Shakespearean verse
• Iambic pentameter - What is iambic pentameter?
• Prose - What is prose

• Shakespeare’s sonnets

• Shakespearean sonnets -  What is a sonnet? - Sonnet 18 study guide

• Adaptions of the play

•  IMDB: Shakespeare

• Do Shakespeare’s plays have relevance today?

•  Washington Post: Ourselves in Shakespeare

• Spot on language

• Shakespeare’s language - grammar (syntax - rhetorical devices - usage shifts - glossary)
• Shakespeare’s words - phrases
• 5 tips how to read Shakespeare

> > > Elizabethan England

• Tudor Dynasty - Henry (Tudor) VII
• Henry VIII - Eduard VI - Mary - Elizabeth I
• English Reformation - Church of England -
• Spanish Armada - F. Drake - W. Raleigh
• Union of the Crowns - James I - Jacobean Era

> > > Theatre in London

• List of present-day theatres in London
• Shakespeare’s Globe London

On the silver screen

• West Side Story (1961)
• Romeo + Juliet (1996)
• Elizabeth (1998)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007)

Romeo and Juliet

• original text - original + modern English - German translation - German translation
• Summary and analysis - study guide
• LibriVox versions 1 - 2 - 3
• YT: video study guide