Shakespeare’s Den is great for a laugh even if you’re not in the mood to buy. Anything and everything that’s ever had Shakespeare’s mug plastered upon it (including mugs, natch) can be found here. Of course there’s also every book, wall hanging and statue you might imagine as well.

Some gems:

• Shakespeare bobblehead doll
• Shakespeare action figure
• After Shakespeare mints
• Hamlet finger puppets
• Shakespeare “celebriduck”

I don’t get an affiliate fee, either, so there :-P. I just wish my wife would let me buy half this stuff.

If you haven’t yet visited the Wikipedia page for Shakespeare, I highly recommend it. It’s not like you’re going to find any new information that you couldn’t find anywhere else. But Wikipedia organizes it better than anywhere else.

Who knew about the “questionable” plays? I knew about the existence of Cardenio, which is more “lost” than “questionable”, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, which I got into an argument with my neighbor about (I lost, arguing “I have several copies of the complete works and there ain’t no Noble Kinsmen in it!”) I’m talking about plays like Edward III or Sir Thomas More, two plays which scholars think might have been collaborated on by Shakespeare.

Of course, the entry itself is link-heavy enough to keep you interested in any direction you wish to go. Elizabethan history? Shakespeare contemporaries? The actual text of the plays? All there.