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Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find information on the history of the Globe Theatre.
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

The Shakespeare Globe Trust: Shakespeare's Globe

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of the Globe Theatre and take a look at today's rebuilt Globe.
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TES Global

Blendspace: The Globe Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
A seven-part learning module with links to a websites, images, and texts about the original Globe Theatre.
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TES Global

Tes: Macbeth: Controlled Assessment: Shakespeare's Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Third Globe

For Students 9th - 10th
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about the present day Globe Theatre built through the efforts of Sam Wanamaker.
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Globe

For Students 9th - 10th
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about the first Globe Theatre including topics such as: Who build the first Globe?, When and where was the Globe built?, What plays were performed at the Globe?, and...
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Special Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about special effects used in plays performed in the Globe Theatre.
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: History of the Original Globe

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the original Globe theater came to be when James Burbage and his two sons bought a plot of land near a rival theater and sold shares to some of the actors. Shakespeare bought a share. In 1613 a stage cannon...
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre by exploring nine context links: William Shakespeare, London, Special Effects, The Third Globe, The Globe, Playhouses, Audiences, Indoor Theatres, and Writing Plays.
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: History of Theatres

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an in-depth history of the Elizabethan Theatre. It contains sections that are specifically about the Rose, Swan, and Globe Theatres.
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The Elizabethan Theatre Lecture by Hilda Spear

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture and slides traces the history of the Elizabeth theater through a variety of topics: London, inn-yards, great halls, outdoor theatres, performances, indoor threatres, theatre and drama, actors, acting, and audience. These...
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Indoor Theatres [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An article containing pictures, information, and additional resources about indoor theatres, why they were built, who acted in them, and how they brought about change during William Shakespeare's time.
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Playhouses [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A PDF containing pictures, information, and additional resources on the two types of playhouses used in London during Shakespeare's time.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Shakespeare for the Developmental Reader

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover how you can open the door of Shakespeare to the developmental reader. This site offers insight into helping young scholars understand Shakespeare's unfamiliar language.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features links to lesson plans and other teaching resources for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: William Shakespeare for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A webpage about the biography of William Shakespeare who was a playwright for the English theatre during the Renaissance at the Globe Theatre of London.
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Shakespeare and His Critics:"a Lecture on Elizabethan Theatre" by Thomas Larque

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of a lecture on Elizabethan Theatre by Thomas Larque, originally given to Performing Arts students as part of their course in 2001. In it he discusses the following topics: Drama Before Theatres, The First Theatre, The...
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: The 32 Second Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."
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Ofcn: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Have you ever read any of Shakespeare's work that you don't quite understand? This site features a lesson plan for "Macbeth" that will help your students understand and enjoy his work.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Studying Romeo and Juliet

For Students 9th - 10th
A site from the UK on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Complete with information on historical context, stagecraft ideas, thematic elements, and in-depth analysis of the tragedy itself.
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Britain Express

Britain Express: Tudor: Elizabethan Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a general information site on the history of Elizabethan theatre, and points out that Shakespeare and Marlowe were two of the playwrights of the time.
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David Claudon: Dressing for Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the difference between farthingales and jerkins, trunk hose and canions by clicking on the Elizabethan Period costumes that Shakespeare's players and audience wore.