CURRENT COURSE
Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays:
Selected Sonnets, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Syllabus Summer 2026, Tuesdays 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | PDF
SELECTED RESOURCES
WRITTEN COMMENTARIES, QUESTIONS, GUIDES
- Intro – Shakespeare’s Life & Times (Drake)
- Intro – Shakespeare’s Language 1 – Basic Features (Drake)
- Intro – Shakespeare’s Language 2 – Blank Verse (Drake)
- Intro to Shakespeare’s Verse & Prosody (Drake)
Intro to Shakespeare’s Comedies (Drake) - Intro – Shakespeare’s History Plays (Drake)
- On Tillyard’s Elizabethan World Picture (Drake)
- Timeline of the English Monarchy (Drake)
- RSC Timeline of Shakespeare’s Plays | Other Timelines
- Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger)
- Shakespeare Online (A. Mabillard) (see Sources)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (U of Victoria)
- Shakespeare Plays without Notes (Folger)
- Shakespeare 1623 First Folio (Folger Library) | TOC
- Shakespeare’s Words: a Dictionary (David & Ben Crystal)
- Shakespeare’s Grammar (Bardweb)
- Holinshed Chronicles Texts (Holinshed Project)
- Shakespeare’s Holinshed: Chronicle & Plays Compared
- Geneva Bible 1599 (Bible Gateway) | 1560/1599 (Textus Receptus)
- Bishop’s Bible (StudyLight.org)
- Reading Elizabethan Print – Folio, etc. (Drake)
- Shakespeare Baddies List (Drake)
- Classical and Renaissance Rhetoric (Drake)
- Introduction to Comedy (Drake)
- Best Books about Shakespeare List (Goodreads)
- Shakespeare Bibliography (Drake)
- Shakespeare Folios and Quartos (U-Vic Internet Shakespeare)
- Bright & Beautiful English of Shakespeare (YouTube)
- Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (YouTube)
- Holinshed’s Chronicles … Vol. 1 of 3 (EEBO/U-Mich) | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3
- RSC: Royal Shakespeare Company (see “Shakespeare’s Plays”)
- Shakespeare’s Globe (Globe Trust, London, UK)
PREVIOUS COURSES
Victorian Literature and Culture
Syllabus Spring 2026, Tuesdays 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | PDF
Shakespeare’s History Plays: the Major Tetralogy
Richard II, Henry IV Pts. 1 & 2, Henry V
- Syllabus Fall 2025, Mondays 11:00 – 12:45 at MAB2 | PDF
- Syllabus Fall 2025, Thursdays 1:00 – 3:00 at Aliante | PDF
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster
Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Jonson’s Volpone, Webster’s Duchess of Malfi
Shakespeare’s Comic and Tragic Modes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, King Lear (MAB2)
Merry Wives …, Troilus and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet, Timon … (Aliante)
Shakespeare’s Comic and Tragic Modes
As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Hamlet
Shakespeare’s Outsiders
Richard the Third, The Merchant of Venice, Othello
Shakespeare’s Romance Plays: a Selection
Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest