Shakespeare's Works
To learn more about Shakespeare's career as a poet, read the brief account of Shakespeare's poems on the British Library site and then add to this short portion on the Shakespeare Documented site. While you're in each site, take a look at the document images available there, exploring additional content on them as your time and interests permit. Then use the link in the header frame to return to this book, and continue to read the pages linked in the following paragraphs.
We'd like to direct your attention to additional pages on the same sites that address Shakespeare's career in the theater. First, take a look at the British Library's page on Shakespeare's plays. Next, read the information provided on Shakespeare's life in the theater on the Shakespeare Documented Site. Again, you should feel free to access additional pages linked to each site, and pay attention to the various printed editions of the works you've perhaps only seen in more recent versions. When you have studied these images to your heart's content, you may move forward to the last of the pages we'll direct to you outside this book, this time to learn some more about Shakespeare's work at the playhouses from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Once you have read each of the pages linked above, you can return to this book by way of the link in the header frame. Then you are ready to proceed to the caveat about authorship we've provided on the next page, followed by a timeline that will allow you to review and re-contextualize what you've been reading on other sites with additional events that are relevant to the study of Shakespeare's life and work.