eMedia & Ancillaries
Student Web Site
Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara
updated by Robert Hamm, Louisiana State University
The Norton Shakespeare Student Website is an exciting gateway to six of the plays--The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Part 1, Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Tempest. For each play, students will find a wealth of resources, including: Thematic Topics with questions for discussion, writing, and research; Sources; Bibliography; and Theatrical and Critical Receptions. Audio clips (thirty minutes from BBC productions), streaming video of key scenes from the plays, and stills from classic productions, etchings, photographs, and costume design illustrations help students appreciate performance aspects of the plays.
In addition to the complete, searchable electronic texts of the six plays above, the complete texts of The Book of Sir Thomas More and The Reign of King Edward the Third, prepared by the editors of The Oxford Shakespeare, Second Edition, are included. A selection of documents provides a range of contemporary testimony about Shakespeare's character, his work, and the social and institutional conditions under which it was produced. The site also includes a map gallery and audio selections from Shakespeare's Songbook.
A registration code to the site is included at no charge with every new copy of The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition.
Visit the demo. The full site will be available for fall 2008 classes.
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