Learners compare and contrast contemporary comedic styles with that of Shakespeare in the play, As You Like It. They perform scenes from the play.

Fourth graders experience playing different positions in the outfield and learn the position numbers. After viewing Abbott and Costello's, "Who's On First," students go outside and play the game, "Move Up."

Students create masks from the Italian Renaisance theatre and use them in one-act plays they write. they analyze the role and development of theatre in world cultures.

Students complete a unit on the play, "Ivanov" by Chekhov. They read and analyze the play, write a short story, watch a film of the play, complete a data sheet, and conduct a debate.

In this opera buffa worksheet, students explore what an opera buffa is and then make up one on their own with funny lyrics and at the end add a melody.

Students explore monologues of Shakespeare and the structure of the Globe Theatre. They participate in a Shakespeare phrase guessing game, examine a diagram of the Globe Theatre, and read and discuss monologues from Shakespeare.

Students perform and discuss three scenes from the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. They discuss the similarities and differences, identify the order of the scenes, and read the first twenty lines of the play.

Students study Richard Wagner and his idea of "Music Drama". Students listen to his music, pantomime, and lead "music dramas" to discover Wagner's idea of the world of composition and drama.

Students evaluate the validity of a society where the individual's place is based on such arbitrary norms as gender, family connections, economic status, or military prowess in this look at Asian culture.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students answer 30 questions on two pages with varied vocabulary building exercises. Included are: similes, idioms, collective nouns and meaning matching. Note: Some vocabulary here is only standard in the...

Students explore the aircraft used in World War II. For this World History lesson, students read an article that describes a "flying saucer" created by the Nazi's. Upon completion of the reading, students answer questions on the article,...

Students are given a word bank relating to theater. For this word bank lesson, students are introduced to a list of words and their definitions. Students then build their vocabulary regarding theatrical concepts.

In this ESL United States activity, middle schoolers answer a set of 25 questions about the United States. The answers to each question are written beneath each.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource is a Royal Shakespeare Company study pack for teaching Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors including a brief summary, a discussion of the theme of confusion, an activity exploring the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive study guide/lesson for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and also about Shakespeare's comedies in general. It includes an introduction, worksheets, plot summaries of different...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show lesson focuses on the jester, Feste the fool, in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night and includes the role of a jester in society and activities.

This site is actually an in-depth lesson plan for the teaching of the Greek New Comedy, "The Grouch," by Menander. For young scholars, it provides a great deal of detail about the play and background material on Greek comedy as a whole....

This resource provides information about comedy films.

This selection from Aristotle's "Poetics" offers the famous Greek philosopher's explanation of the origins of comedy. For a complete understanding of both comedy and tragedy in the traditional literary sense, the entire text of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The resource "What Country, Friends, Is This? Three Plays by Shakespeare" from Royal Shakespeare Company offers teaching materials for Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and The Tempest. The...

Smarthistory article explores the relationship between Dante and the visual arts and how the Divine Comedy played an important role in the creation of a great many outstanding works of art.

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What can we learn from comedy?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is the Royal Shakespeare Company's synopsis of Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.