Worksheet

Shakespearean Puns

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Tickle your funny bone with a worksheet that presents five famous puns drawn from Shakespeare's Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing. Readers identify the play on words as a homographic or homophonic pun. 

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Instructional Ideas
  • Ask your punsters to create their own punny lines
Pros
  • For each pun, the context and play are identified
Cons
  • No answer key is included