TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Controlled Assessment: Shakespeare's Life
[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.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Shakespeare Introduction: Complete Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive slideshow lesson of life in Elizabethan England and Shakespeare's life and works. It includes the ranking of the English Court, Shakespeare's family tree, Shakespeare's life, a...
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare: Othello in Context: Power Point Lesson Resource
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation provides basic information about William Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, and the tragic play Othello. It explains the major characters in the play and their motivations and...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: History of the Original Globe
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...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Audiences
An article containing pictures, information, and additional resources about the audiences that attended William Shakespeare's plays in the Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
The Shakespeare Globe Trust: Shakespeare's Globe
Learn the history of the Globe Theatre and take a look at today's rebuilt Globe.
Other
Shakespeare.org: Explore Shakespeare: Shakespedia
Learn more about the life and works of William Shakespeare. This sight covers all things Shakespeare including his life and family; his works, list of articles from Shakespedia, the Globe Theater; Shakespeare's music and his circle;...
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Henry V: Context and Background
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides context and background for the play Henry V including what the name Henry/Harry means, video clips of the play and the Globe Theater, and questions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth: Introduction
This is the introduction to a unit on the study of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses Shakespeare's modern English and the difficult reading and Elizabethean drama and the Globe Theater; it offers a short biography of Shakespeare and an...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Globe
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...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Third Globe
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about the present day Globe Theatre built through the efforts of Sam Wanamaker.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Special Effects
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about special effects used in plays performed in the Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Indoor Theatres [Pdf]
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.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Playhouses [Pdf]
A PDF containing pictures, information, and additional resources on the two types of playhouses used in London during Shakespeare's time.
Other
Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Here you will find information on the history of the Globe Theatre.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:blank Verse
This discussion of blank verse is taken from a larger article on Shakespeare and the Globe Theater. It defines the term and discusses its importance in the history of British poetry.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Elizabethan Drama
This is a lesson on Elizabethan drama leading up the the reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses the precursor mystery or morality plays including links to Everyman, the most famous of these. It continues with a discussion of how...
TES Global
Tes: Historical Context of Macbeth
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides the historical context of MacBeth including King James I taking the throne, the Globe Theater, the Gunpowder plot, and the witch hunts.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: History of Theatres
This site contains an in-depth history of the Elizabethan Theatre. It contains sections that are specifically about the Rose, Swan, and Globe Theatres.
Other
David Claudon: Dressing for Shakespeare
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.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:couplet
This is a small section of a much larger article on Shakespeare and the Globe Theater that discusses the use of couplets in poetry. Some different types of couplets are discussed (formal or closed, run-on or enjambment, alexandrine,...
Britain Express
Britain Express: Tudor: Elizabethan Theatre
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.