This week – five excellent and useful resources for the Shakespeare theatre-maker.
(It’s starting to get pretty hard to churn out five links every week… so please send us some suggestions! Email me, or tweet #sfg5)
- Shakespeare Searched – the best search tool for the complete works I’ve come across. Simple, fast, and just enough features to be useful.
- Open Source Shakespeare – really handy for breaking down the plays in all sorts of ways. We use it each time we do a reading of play we don’t know inside-out, to figure out doubling. The concordance search is also really handy.
- What’s It All About Shakespeare? – a collection of essays and analysis of the plays. Written to be accessible even to Shakespeare-hating school-kids writing essays – but don’t let that fool you. It’s all some really insightful, well-researched, and just plain useful stuff. If you’re working on a play, worth having a browse for articles on the topic.
- Shakespeare’s Words – every actor (and director) should read this, especially the Language Companion section. It would alleviate so much of the nonsensical paraphrasing that happens in a lot of Fringe Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare Line Count – honestly, this site looks like it takes its inspiration from anglefire sites circa ’97 – which is oddly comforting. But the content is handy – lots of different line counts. By character, by play, by scene, and by character/play/scene combined. I worry it might disappear soon though… it seems a bit more delicate every time I visit. I wonder if the makers are still out there?
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