[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource offers active ways to learn facts about Shakespeare's life and works such as moving about the room collecting facts about Shakespeare and then creating a group collage with them and...

Huge resource of information on Shakespeare, his times, and his works from "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Includes a chronology, biography, glossary, some learning activities, and more. Be sure to check out the "Multimedia" section for...

Here is a website full of ideas to enhance your study of Shakespeare! There are many student activities and lesson plan ideas.

Shakespeare is not just for one type of actor or audience member. In the clip [0:43] "Bringing Myself to Shakespeare" from the American Masters film Raul Julia: The World's a Stage, Raul Julia explores what it means to bring his own...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of activities and slide shows to learn about Shakespeare's life and works, Elizabethan England, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The last activity is a quiz or assessment piece.

Four teaching activities from Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare. Topics include "Acting in Shakespeare's day," "Playgoing in Shakespeare's day," "Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?" and a Shakespeare quiz.

Classroom activities for students of all ages commemorating the 1564 birth of William Shakespeare. Includes a "web links" section and a link to "Shakespearean insults." From ReadWriteThink's calendar on April 23, 2007.

A teaching guide for The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, which can be used before or after a live performance, or on its own. Includes plot synopsis, activities, and discussion questions. Information about Shakespeare's life and...

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slideshow activity pack to be used with five Into Film "Bill: Green Light to Opening Night" films which focuses on the story of what 'really' happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years.' The...

In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This teacher resource for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the Royal Shakespeare Company, includes an introduction to each of the three scenes, ideas for before and after film viewing, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is resource material for teaching Shakespeare's Richard III including activities and writing assignments. They focus on how Richard manipulates Lady Anne and Queen Elizabeth to get what he wants.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a four-week lesson with plans, activities, writing assignments, and other assessments for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes themes, language, writing about literature, soliquays,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ideas bank from the British Museum provides background information about Rome throughout the years and the connections to Shakespeare's works making it a good resource for cross-curricular...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PDF Twelfth Night Workbook including comprehension, cloze exercises, character study, and context activities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides PowerPoint lesson plans for teaching Macbeth including act by act and scene by scene lessons with background information, activities, assignments, quizzes, and a final exam.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for A Midsummer Night's Dream including various activities, summaries, characters, assignments, and websites to view an animated version of the film.

[Free Registration/Login Required] These are resources including worksheets, activites, and writing assignments for Othello. Activities include looking for examples of the themes of jealousy and deception, comparing Iago's and Othello's...

A tutorial on how to understand works by William Shakespeare. Explains how to choose a text and prepare to read it, strategies for actually reading it, and how to get more out of it through related activities.

This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 21 vocabulary words pertaining to Shakespeare. It also offers an extensive vocabulary word list for character and leadership and questions about character.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a number of activities for the introduction of Romeo and Juliet. Students will dig more deeply to aspects of the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet. Translations of phrases...

Contains plans for four lessons that use a "Chicago Tribune" column and other modern sources to teach about the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

Watch "William Shakespeare- Mini Biography" to learn details about Shakespeare.