Characters who slowly descend into madness make great material for tragedies. A study guide from the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival introduces theater goers to Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear. Along with an extensive summary of...

Who was this guy anyway? Introduce William Shakespeare with a video biography that provides a brief overview of the Bard's life and works.

This Fun Trivia quiz incorporates vocabulary, quote identification and character recognition questions for Shakespeare's classic play King Lear. As with all Fun Trivia quizzes, it may be necessary to review content for usefulness....

Capture your learners' attention with this online quiz on the characters who die in William Shakespeare's King Lear. Readers of The Bard answer ten multiple choice questions that detail 10 ways that different characters die during the...

Did your class just finish reading Shakespeare's King Lear? Test them with these ten multiple-choice questions covering the play. It's a fairly easy, simple quiz.

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Shakespeare's King Lear Students may check some of their answers online.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Shakespeare's King Lear. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

High schoolers compare and contrast Shakespearian speeches. In this Shakespeare lesson, students read selected speeches from King Lear and complete a handout that requires them to analyze the speeches.

Students act out lines from King Lear to show a character's folly.  In this English literature lesson, students identify the 'folly' of a given character by choosing a passage from King Lear to demonstrate a time when the character acts...

Young scholars act out scenarios in which someone is duped or is made a fool of.  In this trickery and foolery in King Lear lesson, students plan and act out a brief scenario and discuss the person who is duped and why.  Young scholars...

Students determine the most critical elements of King Lear, Act I using a Silent Scene Model.  In this King Lear lesson, students will create a silent scene based on a scene from Act I of King Lear and act out their scenes for the class.

Students add punctuation to a passage from King Lear and compare their version to the First Folio version.  In this Shakespeare and punctuation lesson, students discuss the difference punctuation can make on a set of words.  Students add...

In this King Lear activity, students analyze 12 quotes from King Lear for character, symbolism, theme, historical context, and plot.

Students read King Lear and analyze British literature to write an argumentative essay on a contemporary issue. In this literature analysis lesson, students read King Lear and participate in a class discussion of filial responsibility....

Pupils complete close reading and character analysis for Shakespeare's King Lear. In this play analysis lesson plan, students reenact scene 1, Act 1 and pick only the lines that demonstrate action. Pupils act out the scene so their body...

Students examine two conflicting writings on solar eclipse that occurred on Black Monday and discuss them in the context of Shakespeare's King Lear. In this Shakespeare instructional activity, students discuss astrology and read the...

Students discuss the expression "fools for love."  In this literature analysis lesson, students use King Lear as a basis for examining parent-child relationships.  In small groups, they discuss the motives behind various actions in the...

Learners examine the concept of the tragic hero in Shakespeare's King Lear and explore how it affects the plot of the play. In this theatrical analysis lesson, students investigate the redemption or defeat of King Lear and perform two...

Students examine the relationship between tragedy and patriarchs in King Lear and Willliam Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. They compare these works to the film "Apocalypse Now" and research a twentieth-century political leader. They write a...

Students read specific acts of Shakepeare's King Lear. Using the text, they identify the beginning stages of Lear's insanity and the causes of his instability. They examine the relationship between King Lear and Poor Tom and reenact the...

Students examine patterns of imagery in King Lear by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then students draw conclusions about why Shakespeare might have used...

Twelfth graders read William Shakespeare's "King Lear" and draw connections to King James I with King Lear.

Students engage in a lesson which gives them an introduction to the text, as a way to compare and contrast the lesson learned at the end of the play. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to interpret what Lear is saying.

High schoolers participate in two simple status games to allow students to explore the relationships between Lear, his three daughters, and his court.