Curated OER
Royal Shakespeare Company's New Theatre
Students brainstorm the names of Shakespeare's plays and read an article about a new theatre. They complete worksheets about the plays. In groups, they play a game where they give clues about films or plays and others try to guess the...
TES Global
Tes: First Encounters: King Lear (2012) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource from Royal Shakespeare Company focuses on teaching Shakespeare's King Lear including themes, characters and relationships, the two families, understanding the language, staging the play,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: King Lear
Broaden your knowledge of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," when you explore this site. This resource features links to several other educational sites with lesson plans, activities, study guides and more.
TES Global
Tes: Aqa Lit: King Lear & Parent/child Poetry So W
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson for comparing parent/child relationships using poems by a variety of English Literary Heritage poets and Acts I-III of King Lear. It includes parent/child lessons and...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: King Lear: Multiple Texts, Editions
Lesson plan in which students compare and contrast Lear's last lines. when he holds the dead Cordelia, from two early editions of King Lear.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: King Lear: Astrologers and Skeptics
Lesson plan questioning the degree to which Elizabethan audiences believed in destiny and astrology.