Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v3no2/hill.htm Tracey Hill reviews two books: Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland, by Christopher Highley; Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruite and Salvage Soyl, Andrew Hadfield.
A She Or Not a She... That Is the Question for Shakespeare - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,687960,00.html "Fresh light has been thrown on William Shakespeare's sexual orientation by the discovery of a previously unknown portrait of the playwright's patron, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton - apparently dressed as a woman." Article from Guardian Unlimited Observer which includes the portrait in PDF format.
SAA Essay on HyperCriticism: - http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/open.html Considers the implications of writing critically about Shakespeare in hyperspace.
Shakespeare and Freudian Theory - http://www.literatureclassics.com/essays/216 An investigation of Freud's theory and family relationships in Shakespeare, especially in Hamlet and Titus Andronicus.
Shakespeare and His Critics - http://shakespearean.org.uk/ A collection of critical essays ranging from 18th and 19th Century criticism of the plays, and descriptions of their performance, to works by his contemporaries.
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human - http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.1/atwan.html Robert Atwan reviews Harold Bloom's controversial book. Originally published in the February/March 1999 issue of Boston Review.
An Internet Shakespeare - http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/Articles/ISA1996.html A paper written by Michael Best of the University of Victoria.
Allusions to Edmund Campion in Twelfth Night - http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/virtualclassroom/12thnightdesper.htm A discussion of Shakespeare's politics by C. Richard Desper.
About Shakespeare - http://www.about-shakespeare.com Essays and criticism on the plays.
Leavis on Shelley and Shakespeare - http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/440/cenci.html A brief comparison of some lines from Shelly's The Cenci with lines from Measure for Measure.
Was Shakespeare an Atheist? - http://www.2think.org/shakespeare-atheist.shtml We will never know. You can find hints that he may have been, or at least that he wasn't totally fond of religion and its orthodox practitioners, from his plays.
William Shakespeare the Upstart Crow - http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-upstart-crow.htm Provides details of the attack on the Bard by Robert Greene in his pamphlet the Groatsworth of Wit, which was published in 1592.
The Public-Domain Shakespeare - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/mla1292.html A paper by Ian Lancashire of the Department of English University of Toronto.
Shaksper: Global Shakespeare Conference - http://www.shaksper.net/ Provides reference materials, new papers, a listserv, and scholarly criticism on new works.
Shakespeare in Europe: Critical Texts in English and German - http://www.unibas.ch/shine/texts.html William Shakespeare in European culture: critical essays, scholarly texts. A project of the English Department at Basel University. The study of cultures in contact. Uses of Shakespeare.
Jews in Shakespeare - http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/shakespeare/jews.htm Resources about Jews in Elizabethan England and its literature.
The Secret of Shakespeare's Irish Sympathies - http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/barrell/03Irish.htm An essay on Shakespeare's personal life, by Charles Wisner Barrell.
Shakespeare in Connotations - http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak4/fr43/connotations/ Complete list of contributions to the first seven volumes. Highlighted articles and responses available online.
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