eMedia & Ancillaries
Student Web Site
Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara
The student Web site is the ideal tool for tying text to context in ways uniquely flexible and imaginative. Students start by choosing from six of the most widely-taught 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 sections on the Elements of Theater, Sources, Stage History, and Critical Receptions. Audio clips and stills from classic productions, etchings, photographs, and costume design illustrations help students appreciate performance aspects of the plays.
The site also includes the redesigned “Shakespearean Chronicle, 1558-1616,” a rich, amply illustrated timeline of three kinds of chronologies that illuminate Shakespeare’s life and times. In addition to the complete 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 in a password-protected section of the Web site. A registration code to this site is included at no charge with every new copy of The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition.
Site demo coming April 2008; full site available for Fall 2008 classes
Norton Literature Online
Each new copy of The Norton Shakespeare Second Edition, includes a free password to Norton Literature Online, the most robust offering of literature resources on the Web. Resources include an extensive glossary of literary terms, a valuable "Writing about Literature" section, MLA documentation guidelines, links to textbook-specific sites that include student review materials, and much more. In addition to general tools for reading and writing, the site features a gallery of nearly 400 author portraits, more than 100 maps, timelines, and dozens of recorded readings and musical selections.
Visit Norton Literature Online
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion
Edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery
This is the most comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems compiled in a single volume. It sets forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and provides a concise history of Shakespeare editing. It includes, for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of emendations and plausible alternative readings, and a letter-by-letter reprint of the stage directions of the control text.
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