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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: The Merchant of Venice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Explanatory notes and commentary are found at the end of each...
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Measure for Measure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy Measure for Measure. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found at the end of each scene....
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Introduction to the Characters in Macbeth

For Students 9th - 10th
The main characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth are introduced, described and analyzed with links to additional character information. Character descriptions include: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Banquo, Macduff, and the...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Love's Labour's Lost

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labour's Lost. 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

Shakespeare Online: King Lear Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Shakespeare Online: King John

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Shakespeare Online: Hamlet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Coriolanus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: The Comedy of Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Shakespeare Online: All's Well That Ends Well

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: As You Like It

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Shakespeare Online: Antony and Cleopatra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: King Lear

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: Publishing and Piracy

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic, multimedia tutorial that examines the problems Shakespearian scholars have deciphering pirated copies from authentic ones. This graphics-rich tutorial draws from a number of primary source documents. There are also some...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive biography of William Shakespeare. It is divided into sections with multiple listings under each section to explore various time periods and events in Shakespeare's life and England during his life. The two major...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of information and analysis of Shakespeare's plays, background, themes, and other topics of interest to those students of Shakespeare. The site also offers the complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, quotations...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Insults by Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
In this TED lesson students can watch a video [6:24] about Shakespearian insults, answer multiple choice and open response questions about the video, and follow links to dig deeper into the topic.
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eBook
University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: The Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing...
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Handout
Luminarium

Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485 1603)

For Students 9th - 10th
Luminarium offers a student resource for learning about the authors of the English Renaissance period. Contains links to over 25 different authors from the period which contain their biographies, bibliographies, and text to some of their...
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PBS

Pbs: Masterpiece Theatre: The Merchant of Venice

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to a televised production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with information and analysis about the play and about the approach to the text taken by production's director and actors.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakspeare by Charles Lamb

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Tales from Shakspeare Designed for the Use of Young People by Charles Lamb (1887). This book features a biography of Shakespeare, a chronological list of his plays,...
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Study Guide: Henry Iv, Part One

For Students 9th - 10th
A teaching guide for 1 Henry IV by Shakespeare. Includes plot synopsis, analysis of the main themes in the play, historical context, activities, and discussion questions, as well as a fifteen-minute condensed version of the play for...
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Other

Open Source Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site...
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Other

Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains an introduction to Shakespeare's grammar and sections on his works, play synopses, Elizabethan England, and more.