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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: King Lear Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive resource for William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Resources include but are not limited to: play overview, play analysis, character analysis, famous quotes from the play, and pronunciation. Exam questions and scene by...
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: King John

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's history King John. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Hamlet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found after each scene. Extensive resources are...
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Coriolanus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. A list of related articles can be found on the landing page.
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: The Comedy of Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Comedy of Errors. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: All's Well That Ends Well

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy All's Well That Ends Well. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Related articles are provided on the landing page.
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: As You Like It

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Full explanatory notes and study questions are found at the end of the...
Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Antony and Cleopatra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found after each scene. An extensive...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: Richard Iii

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic Multimedia tutorial that examines the history of Shakespeare's play, Richard III. Both the background English history and the history of the play itself are examined using pieces of primary source material.
Interactive
University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: "Merchant of Venice"

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic, multimedia introduction to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Rich graphics make the intellectual material more accessable. Sections discuss the anti-semitism and perception of usury during Shakespeare's time, as well as the...
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University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: King Lear

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of information and analysis of Shakespeare's plays, background, themes, and other topics of interest to those students of Shakespeare. The site also offers the complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, quotations...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Insults by Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
In this TED lesson students can watch a video [6:24] about Shakespearian insults, answer multiple choice and open response questions about the video, and follow links to dig deeper into the topic.
eBook
University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: The Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing...
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PBS

Pbs: Masterpiece Theatre: The Merchant of Venice

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to a televised production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with information and analysis about the play and about the approach to the text taken by production's director and actors.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Study Guide: Henry Iv, Part One

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Open Source Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site...
Handout
Other

The Elizabethan Theatre Lecture by Hilda Spear

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture and slides traces the history of the Elizabeth theater through a variety of topics: London, inn-yards, great halls, outdoor theatres, performances, indoor threatres, theatre and drama, actors, acting, and audience. These...
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Other

Legends: Shakespeare's Stories Macbeth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Legends of Shakespeare's stories. Source of Macbeth with links to Holinshed's book and other source material.
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Other

Shakespeare literature.com: Othello

For Students 9th - 10th
This Shakespeare-Literature.com site provides the complete synopsis of the play, "Othello." Very in-depth and separated by acts.
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Other

Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a passage for those who wish to learn through A Midsummer Night's Dream to build bridges between real life concerns and this play, as it was in Shakespeare's time. Gives character profiles and outlines their problems in the...
Handout
Other

Shakespeare Portal: Frequently Encountered Words

For Students 9th - 10th
A glossary of one hundred words which may be unfamiliar to modern English speakers, but which are widely used in Shakespeare's plays. Each entry includes a definition and several references from Shakespeare's plays. Each reference...
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online...