Welcome to Mrs. Joyner's Web World!

Links

Excellent teen reading site!
http://teenreads.com

Another fab site - top ten lists and award winners are recommended here!
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/awardwinningbooks/

MY FAVORITE SHAKESPEARE SITE:  This informative and beautiful site will 
provide you with biographical information on Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, 
and the plays.  There's even a section of pre-edited scripts of some scenes 
that you might use for your group performance.  Play a few games and create 
some insults while you're visiting this site.
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=588

SHAKESPEARE SCRIPTS:  Working alone?  This website provides scripts for 
Shakespeare's 
male and female monologues.  To be or not to be, that is the question!
http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/

SCRIPTS:  Need a copy of your script?  Look here for all of Shakespeare's 
works.
http://www.bartleby.com/70/

SAYING YOUR LINES:  This site provides a pronounciation guide for Old 
English 
as well as some songs and insults (your favorite) from the Renaissance 
period.
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html

MUSIC:  Looking for music selections?  If you are staging a traditional 
Elizabethan scene, you'll find music from the 15th and 16th centuries at 
this 
website.
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/renaissa.html

COSTUMES:  The fashion-savvy among you will want to spend some time at this 
glossary of links that will show you oodles of costumes.
http://www.costume-con.org/links.shtml

STAGING AND MORE COSTUMES:  The Royal Shakespeare Company will provide you 
with 
some amazing pictures of the variety of ways that Macbeth has been staged 
and 
costumed through the years.  The link below will take you right to the 
section focused on Macbeth.  Use the menu on the left side of the screen to 
travel through the site.
http://www.rsc.org.uk/picturesandexhibitions/action/showAllExhibitions

GLOSSARY: Unsure about a Shakespearean word?  This website provides a 
glossary of obsure words in Shakespeare's plays.  Definitely a good place to 
go when your group is working on interpreting your script.
http://shakespeare.about.com/library/blglossary.htm?PM=ss14_shakespeare

BIO QUIZ: Art thou ready to prove thyself?  After studying Shakespeare's 
life 
and viewing the A&E biography, try this interactive quiz!  You should know 
all but five of the 22 questions (we didn't cover #8,10,11,17, and 18). Good 
luck!
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/quiz/bioquiz.htm

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