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In Search of Shakespeare
PBS created this web site to support their four part series on Shakespeare. Classroom teachers will not want to miss the Educator's section. You will find tips on how to bring Shakespeare alive in your classroom, lesson plans, and other resources.
Utah Shakespearean Festival: Educational Resources
Utah has their very own Shakespearean Festival each year in Cedar City. The Educational Resources section of their web site provide hundreds of resources for learning more about Shakespeare, other playwrights, their work, and theatre in general.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
Shakespeare for Kids
If you are looking for Shakespeare related activities for children and families, this is the site for you. The Folger Shakespeare Library developed this site and a section devoted to Teachers and Students.
Shakespeare's Monologues
All of the monologues from Shakespeare's plays are here with play, act, scene, and line numbers of each.
Shakespeare's Life and Times
This web site includes information on Shakespeare's life, the stage he wrote for, and the social, historical, intellectual, and artistic context of his time.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Meet Shakespeare and let him guide you through a complete annotated guide of his works. [
...a compiled list of scholarly Shakespeare resources and other original Shakespeare content including lesson plans and a timeline
Changing Stages: A history of the Theatre
Learn how the theatre has changed since Shakespeare's time. Includes various biographies of Shakespeare and other actors, as well as information on the theatres of certain areas.
The Life of Shakespeare
This is a timeline of Shakespeare's life.
Romeo and Juliet
This fun site includes a synopsis of the play, themes, lesson plans, and more. Students can also read about Shakespeare's England and how the play "Romeo and Juliet" is connected to the fine arts (performing, visual, and literary).
Shakespeare Unlimited
This is a great graphic site for learning the basics of Shakespeare's
plays. It includes a character analysis of "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Tempest," plus a plot summary of "Romeo and Juliet." Students
can also design the mask that Romeo wears to the party.
William Shakespeare Sonnets
Read your favorite Shakespeare sonnet.
The Globe Theatre
Visit Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Shakespeare Resource Center
Another great site devoted to Shakespeare's life and work.
William Shakespeare Birth Place
Learn about Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare's birth place.
Shakespeare Online
Here are resources for the study of the man and his works. Includes play and character analysis, plot synopsis, source information, and answers to common questions.
Shakespearean Poetry Search
Find specific sonnets and poems.
51 Random Facts About Shakespeare
Interesting facts about William Shakespeare, his life, and his works.
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil
This resource contains an EDSITEment lesson in which students will study Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students will use an Internet search engine to collect instances in the play of specific key words. [Grades 9-12]
You Kiss by the Book: Romeo & Juliet
The goals of this lesson plan are: (1) To learn about Shakespeare's use of poetic conventions as a principle of dramatic structure in Romeo and Juliet; (2) To examine the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet as an enactment of figurative language in a context of competing poetic styles; (3) To explore the use of poetic forms to impart perspective in later episodes of the play; (4) To gain experience in close reading and the interpretation of verse structure and imagery. [Grades 9-12]
Romeo and Juliet
This lesson helps enhance students' ability to analyze and interpret dramatic scripts, specifically the structural and linguistic intricacies of Shakespeare's text. [Grades 9-12]
Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
Students create a resume for a character in a play. This activity allows students to focus on one particular character within a Shakespearean drama and follow descriptions of that character throughout the play to determine the character’s education, skills, extracurricular activities, previous employment, and possible references. [Grades 9-12]
Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
This lesson, from EDSITEment, contains seven activities for students to explore the linguistic ingenuity of Iago's rhetoric in Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello." [Grades 9-12]
Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
This lesson plan from EDSITEment introduces students to the formal terms used to describe sonnets. The central focus throughout will be learning to appreciate the sounds of poetry. By focusing on the sounds of poetry, the lesson seeks to demonstrate that there is always an underlying sense of form or structure at work in language, whether we happen to know the names for the formal elements of poetry or not.[Grades 9-12]
Playing with Puns
Students compare the puns and word play in selected scenes of the plays, The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. [Grades 5-8]
A Way with Words or Say What?
Shakespeare invented over 2,000 words and expressive phrases. In this lesson, students use drawing and pantomime to identify and analyze some of Shakespeare's phrases. They then write a story using the newly-identified words, lines, and phrases. [Grades 5-8]
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive
You will find many activities and lesson plans to help you incorporate Shakespeare into your classroom instruction. [All grades]