Documents:

Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament

History:

The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? Check out the evidence for yourself!

Shakespeare's Globe

Sonnets:

Shakespeare Online

Shakespearean Genres:

Romance

• or try Wikipedia's Romance

Tragedy

Comedy

History Plays

Plays:

Romeo and Juliet

Midsummer Night's Dream

• Documents on women, marriage, and sovereignty

Othello

• Machiavelli, from The Prince
• Pliny the Elder, from History of the World
• Contemporary writings on the Moors

Tempest

General Resources:

The Shakespeare Web

Folger Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare Resource Center

PBS In Search of Shakespeare

The First Folio Page

About.com: Shakespeare. Online criticism and essays on Shakespeare.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography

Want to read more? Here are some very accessible favorites:

Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World

Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Stephen Booth, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London