Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: King Lear Study Guide
An extensive resource for William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Resources include but are not limited to: play overview, play analysis, character analysis, famous quotes from the play, and pronunciation. Exam questions and scene by...
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Shakespeare Online: King John
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's history King John. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
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Shakespeare Online: Hamlet
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found after each scene. Extensive resources are...
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: Coriolanus
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. A list of related articles can be found on the landing page.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: The Comedy of Errors
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Comedy of Errors. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
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Shakespeare Online: All's Well That Ends Well
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy All's Well That Ends Well. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
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Shakespeare Online: As You Like It
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Full explanatory notes and study questions are found at the end of the...
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Shakespeare Online: Antony and Cleopatra
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found after each scene. An extensive...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Write Descriptively
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But how do writers suck readers into stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your...
Other
Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Grammar
This site contains an introduction to Shakespeare's grammar and sections on his works, play synopses, Elizabethan England, and more.
Other
Legends: Shakespeare's Stories Macbeth
Legends of Shakespeare's stories. Source of Macbeth with links to Holinshed's book and other source material.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1
This study guide is intended for university and AP students as well as the general reader studying Shakespeare's history play, Henry IV, Part I.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: As You Like It: Teacher Pack 2013 [Pdf]
Use this teacher resource to get students more involved in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Sections of the Teacher Pack include Creating the Worlds of the Play, The Court and the Forest, Creating Characters, Using Movement, and Playing a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
A 7-lesson unit where middle schoolers critically analyze how a film adaptation portrays a novel to see what impact it had on the retell of the story. They then design a movie DVD cover and write a DVD insert based on what they have...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act comedic play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
TES Global
Tes: Cultural Approaches
[Free Registration/Login Required] See how Shakespeare is brought to life on stage and on film. Explore his work through art, design, costumes, and historical objects using materials from some of the UK's major cultural institutions.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Film
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of video adaptations of Shakespeare plays from silent films to modern movies and teaching packs from the BFI and Into Film to give teachers ideas as to how to use them in teaching...
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Tes: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PDF Twelfth Night Workbook including comprehension, cloze exercises, character study, and context activities.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Controlled Assessment: Shakespeare's Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson plan to introduce students to Shakespeare's life, the Globe Theater, how Shakespeare attracted his audience, and his work as an actor.
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre
[Free Registration/Login Required] With these resources, you can explore the context of genre conventions and the traditions they represent in some of Shakespeare's plays. Use these videos, articles, images, and lessons to see how...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: Comedy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use these resources to explore the comic traditions of Shakespeare and discover how the different plays reflect these conventions and compare with each other. The resources include videos, images,...
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Tes: Commedia Dell'arte Character Introduction
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show introduces the major stock characters in Commedia Dell'Arte, a form of theatre characterized by masked "types," improvised dialogue, and a cast of colorful stock characters which began...
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Tes: Commedia Dell'arte and Stock Characters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on Commedia Dell'Arte and stock characters including a close activity on Commedia Dell'Arte, a definition of stock characters with examples, modern day stock characters, and...