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1			This is the homepage for the PBS site about the Shakespearean authorship question. Take a while and browse around the site. What did you learn? Does it matter who wrote the works of Shakespeare?
2			Here's the entry at imdb.com for William Shakespeare. How many decades does it span? How many versions of Hamlet have there been? When was the first? What's the latest? What conclusions can you draw from the list?
3			Read this summary about the sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet. In what way do you think Hamlet qualifies as a revenge tragedy? Do you think "revenge" is sufficient to describe what motivates Hamlet?