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Shakespeare's Life and Times: History and Politics
This section on the life and times of Shakespeare addresses the stories behind his 'histories'.
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Shakespeare's Life and Times: Seven Ages of Shakespeare's Life
A biography of William Shakespeare, split into seven stages of his life, from his childhood to his retirement.
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: Women Writers of the English Renaissance
A brief overview of women writers during the English Renaissance. Related links to different writers.
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University of Victoria: Shakespeare's Life and Times
This resource deals with Shakespeare's life, society, drama, art, music, politics and history of that time. The full text to many of Shakespeare's plays is also included.
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Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery: Unity of Movement
Emily Carr, Katharine Maltwood and Myfanwy Pavelic contributed significantly to the West Coast Canadian art scene. This virtual exhibition by the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Victoria gives great tribute to the...
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: "The Comedy of Errors"
This website provides three ways to read the Shakespearean comedy, "The Comedy of Errors." You can read a "modern" version of the text, by clicking on the specific scenes of the text. Or you can read "The Comedy of Errors" as it first...
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: The Library
Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing...
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Study Zone: Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs)
Students type the past tense of verbs in parentheses into the boxes provided throughout the paragraph and then check answers.
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Animal Vocabulary
This is a set of Reading games, of which the matching games are more for the elementary, and the multiple choice exercises are more for middle school. Some references are made specifically to Canadian locations.
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Study Zone: Future: Forms 1
Students read the dialogue and select the best verb form to fit into the sentence provided. There are 10 questions.
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U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary and Rhetorical Terms: An Alphabetical List
This is an alphabetical list of literary and rhetorical terms; each includes a definition and examples.
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University of Victoria: Chinese New Year
Learn about the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Information is provided on Chinese New Year foods, decorations, taboos, and superstitions.
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: Art in Renaissance England
Topics available from this page include Medieval art, Renaissance art, Raphael: Italy comes to England, Later Renaissance art, Art in northern Europe, and Art in England. All of these topics are discussed in light of Shakespeare's life...
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: "A Midsumer Night's Dream"
This site from the University of Victoria provides an index to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Contains Quarto text (1600) and Folio text (1623) divided into acts and scenes, divided into pages, and as a single long file.
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: "As You Like It"
This website from the University of Victoria offers three options for those wanting to read the full text of the Shakespearean comedy, "As You Like It." Read a modern edition of the play, which is organized by acts and scenes. Or read...
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: "Edward the Third"
The entire text of Shakespeare's "Edward the Third" made available by Internet Shakespeare Editions.
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Internet Shakespeare Editions: "Measure for Measure"
At this website, there are three ways you can enjoy reading "Measure for Measure." You can read a "modern edition," which is divided into acts and scenes for easy navigation. You can read the text as it "first appeared in the Folio of...
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Study Zone: Simple Past Irregular Verbs
In this exercise students, select the past correct past tense of irregular verbs. Questions can be viewed all at once, or one at a time.
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University of Victoria: Michael Best: Assignment #3: An Explication
This is an assignment to write a detailed 850-word explication over one of two passages in Shakespeare's Othello. In the assignment, he explains what an explication is and is not and how to go about writing one. He also explains exactly...
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Study Zone: Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
This practice quiz asks students to type the simple past tense of given regular and irregular verbs into boxes provided throughout a paragraph.
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University of Victoria: Moralities and Mysteries
This site from the University of Victoria, which is part of a much larger site on Shakespeare, describes morality plays. It also provides examples and links to complete texts of some medieval morality plays.
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Capturing History: British Columbia
This fascinating site features the area around the East Kootenays in the early 1900s showing the pristine environment through photographs and text.
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Pictures of a Community
Wonderfully clear photographs of the community of Fernie British Columbia taken from the period 1904-1924 are presented in this site.
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University of Victoria: Internet Shakespeare Editions: "Macbeth"
Some summary and analysis of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth." It discusses a variety of aspects of the play including witches and the supernatural, Lady Macbeth and power, and Shakespeare's sources.