The Bard of Avon: Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

    As stated by the author of the homepage this is a completely bilingual site on Shakespeare, his works, his plays and his birthplace. To access the English version we just have to click on the HOME link on the top right part of the main Japanese page. The website is a product of an amateur. She is a teacher of Japanese language who lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, whose name is Michiyo, and who decided to create this page out of an afternoon of boredom and because of her interest on Shakespeare.

    It is not a homepage of an incredible quality, but it is an interesting attempt for a Japanese university student to build up a private web site with Shakespeare as its main theme, that combines it with other unrelated information such as the diary of the author and some samples of Japanese lessons. Although the amount of relevant information on Shakespeare and its depth is not astonishing, it is a well crafted homepage, with a clear structure, and with some interesting corners like a few videos on some of the festivals of Stratford, or a guide of hotels and places of interest on city. There is even a Shakespeare Searchable Quotation Database. Within the Shakespeare’s section, there is also a section on Shakespeare’s life which even includes a complete family tree. Finally, apart from various sections about the playwright and his works, there is a section with links (some of them external) to web versions of the complete texts of Shakespeare’s works.