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http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/ks3bitesize/ - excellent BBC revision site for KS3
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid1/student.projects/hoo2/beowulf1.html - the 1910 Francis B. Gummere translation of Beowulf.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471/main.html - "Anglecynn" - an award-winning site with lots of useful information presented in an interesting way.
http://www.lauraloft.f2s.com/saxon/a-saxon.htm - this page contains a range of links to other sites about Anglo-Saxon England.
http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/readings.html and
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-audio.html - examples of spoken Anglo-Saxon.
http://www.calhoun-city.k12.ga.us/chs/english/Comitatus.html - the Comitatus Game (a comitatus is a warrior band).
http://users.mhc.edu/facultystaff/jpierce/fall99/eng201/caliban.html - "Caliban upon Setebos" by Robert Browning.
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/sutton-hoo.htm - background information about the Sutton Hoo site.
http://w3.one.net/~tomwulf/NW/OE/RunePoem.html - a translation of The Rune Poem side by side with the Anglo-Saxon original.
http://www.cln.org/themes/macbeth.html - a modernised version of Macbeth.
http://www.asn-ibk.ac.at/schulen/borg-ibk/shakespeare/10_Macbeth.html - a positive review of Roman Polanski's "Macbeth".
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-15FC-2965FCA-393190AF-prod5 - a less-than-positive review of Roman Polanski's "Macbeth".
http://www.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/witch.htm - contemporary (viz., of the time of Shakespeare) beliefs about witchcraft.
http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2000-10-13/arts_feature2.html - the full text of the article: "The Curse of the Play" (Macbeth) by Robert Faires, October 13, 2000.
http://www.philosophy-irc.com/fate.html - beliefs about fate.
Follow-up:
http://www.allshakespeare.com/plays/macbeth/sn.shtml - the "Shakespeare Alive" teaching materials which contain a detailed analysis of Shakespeare's use of sources.
http://holmes-sherlock.com/links/link131.html - an extensive list of links to Sherlock Holmes sites.
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