Shakespeare

=The Bard - William Shakespeare=

a [|Timeline] of his life

The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives , connecting words never before used together , adding prefixes and suffixes , and diversing words wholly original. Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined.
 * Shakepeare's Words **

**General info on Elizabethan England**
 * [|Your Dream Vacation in Elizabethan England] **

**General facts about Bill’s life (birth/death date 4/23; the “lost years”; he wrote histories; comedies, and tragedies**

**[|For information on the literature of the Elizabethan Era] (selected paragraphs)**

**[|Info on the Globe Theater and the First Folio]**

**[|Info on Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon]** **[|Info on the First Folio]**
 * [|Info on Shakespeare’s early life] **

**Useful Links About Shakespeare!** [|Shakespeare’s Biography] [|Columbia Encyclopedia—William Shakespeare] [|The History Channel—William Shakespeare] [|In Search of Shakespeare] [|Literature Post] [|Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet] [|Renaissance-Faire.Com’s Life of William Shakespeare] [|Shakespeare Biography] [|Shakespeare Biography by All Shakespeare] [|Shakespeare’s Biography (Shakespeare Online)] [|William Shakespeare (MS Encarta Online)] [|William Shakespeare—Biography and Works] [|William Shakespeare: An Outline of his Life] [|Shakespeare’s Works]

[|Collected Works of Shakespeare] [|Internet Shakespeare: Draft Early Texts] [|Internet Shakespeare Editions—Home Page] [|Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet] [|The Oxford Shakespeare] [|Project Gutenburg] [|Shakespeare’s History Plays—A Student’s Overview] [|The Works of William Shakespeare at MIT]

[|A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy] [|About.com—Shakespeare Criticism] [|Internet Public Library] [|Samuel Johnson’s “Shakespeare” Preface] [|Shake Sphere] : [|Shakespeare and his Critics] : [|Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)] : [|Shakespeare Criticism] [|Shakespeare in //Connotations//] [|Shakespeare Online] [|University of Basel, Switzerland] [|UTEL: Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, by William Hazlitt (1817)] [|World Shakespeare Bibliography]

[|//ELH—Early Literary History Journal//] [|//Early Modern Literary Studies Journal//] [|//Shakespeare and the Classroom//] [|//Shakespeare Magazine//] [|//Shakespeare Quarterly//] [|SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference]