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A She Or Not a She... That Is the Question for Shakespeare - http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/apr/21/arts.highereducation
"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.

A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy - http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley
Complete text of the classic of criticism. Includes author information.

About Shakespeare - http://www.about-shakespeare.com
Essays and criticism on the plays.

Allreaders William Shakespeare Spotlight - http://www.allreaders.com/Topic.asp?TopicID=589
Short reviews of selected plays.

Allusions to Edmund Campion in Twelfth Night - http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/virtualclassroom/12thnightdesper.htm
A discussion of Shakespeare's politics by C. Richard Desper.

Alternative Shakespeares Volume 2 - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v3no2/dooley.htm
Mark Dooley reviews the Terence Hawkes book.

An Internet Shakespeare - http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/Articles/ISA1996.html
A paper written by Michael Best of the University of Victoria.

English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/mynott.htm
Glen Mynott reviews the G.K. Hunter book.

Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country by Steve Roth - http://princehamlet.com
Book discussing unresolved issues in the play.

Jews in Shakespeare - http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/shakespeare/jews.htm
Resources about Jews in Elizabethan England and its literature.

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.

Materialist Shakespeare: A History - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no1/siar.htm
David Siar reviews the Ivo Kamps book.

Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v3no1/evans.htm
Robert C. Evans reviews the Howard Erskine-Hill book.

Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/scott.htm
Michael Scott reviews the Robert Shaughnessy book.

SAA Essay on HyperCriticism: - http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/open.html
Considers the implications of writing critically about Shakespeare in hyperspace.

SAA Hyperessay on Electronic Shakespearean Criticism - http://www.colby.edu/personal/leosborn/saalong.html
by Laurie Osborne.

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 and Renaissance Association - http://web.marshall.edu/engsr//SR1997.html
WVU's collection of selected papers (Vol 20).

Shakespeare and Renaissance Association - http://web.marshall.edu/engsr//SR1998.html
WVU's collection of selected papers (Vol 21).

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.

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.

Shakespeare the Historian - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no2/hale.htm
David Hale reviews the Paola Pugliatti book.

Shakespeare the Player: A Life in the Theatre - http://members.tripod.com/stromata/id300.htm
A review of the John Southworth book.

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.

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.

Shaksper: Global Shakespeare Conference - http://www.shaksper.net/
Provides reference materials, new papers, a listserv, and scholarly criticism on new works.

The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake: A Comparative Study - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no2/rist.htm
Thomas Rist reviews the Harold Fisch book.

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.

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.

The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands - http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v3no2/pacheco.htm
Anita Pacheco reviews the Lisa Hopkins book.

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.

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