"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.

Complete text of the classic of criticism. Includes author information.

Essays and criticism on the plays.

Short reviews of selected plays.

A discussion of Shakespeare's politics by C. Richard Desper.

Mark Dooley reviews the Terence Hawkes book.

A paper written by Michael Best of the University of Victoria.

Glen Mynott reviews the G.K. Hunter book.

Book discussing unresolved issues in the play.

Resources about Jews in Elizabethan England and its literature.

A brief comparison of some lines from Shelly's The Cenci with lines from Measure for Measure.

David Siar reviews the Ivo Kamps book.

Robert C. Evans reviews the Howard Erskine-Hill book.

Michael Scott reviews the Robert Shaughnessy book.

Considers the implications of writing critically about Shakespeare in hyperspace.

by Laurie Osborne.

An investigation of Freud's theory and family relationships in Shakespeare, especially in Hamlet and Titus Andronicus.

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.

WVU's collection of selected papers (Vol 20).

WVU's collection of selected papers (Vol 21).

Complete list of contributions to the first seven volumes. Highlighted articles and responses available online.

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.

David Hale reviews the Paola Pugliatti book.

A review of the John Southworth book.

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.

Robert Atwan reviews Harold Bloom's controversial book. Originally published in the February/March 1999 issue of Boston Review.

Provides reference materials, new papers, a listserv, and scholarly critism on new works.

Thomas Rist reviews the Harold Fisch book.

Provides reviews of Jonathon Bates' book by readers.

A paper by Ian Lancashire of the Department of English University of Toronto.

by Charles Wisner Barrell.

Anita Pacheco reviews the Lisa Hopkins book.

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.

Provides details of the attack on the Bard by Robert Greene in his pamphlet the Groatsworth of Wit, which was published in 1592.