Renaissance

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? - www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html

Provides basic information and helpful links on the period.

Educating Shakespeare - www.likesnail.org.uk/es-sirhughevans2.htm

Describes what schools & education were like during Shakespeare's time, including a tour of King Edward VI School in Stratford-on-Avon.

Faire Names for English Folk: Late Sixteenth Century English Names - www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fairnames

Created for Renaissance Fair participants, this site provides information on naming infants, namesakes, the difference between given (first) and surnames (last names), etc. in Elizabethan England

Life in Elizabethan England - renaissance.dm.net/compendium

Created by an Ren Fair regular, this site contains info on costume, language, food & entertainment.  Covers everything about life during Shakespeare's time.