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...

A multidisciplinary interactive site that explores Dante's Divine Comedy. Find the texts of all three sections presented in both Italian and English. Significant people, places, creatures, deities, structures, images, and music are also...

A comprehensive and interactive study of Dante Alighieri's most famous work, The Divine Comedy. Study this enormously rich text with the help of maps, diagrams, music, a timeline and a gallery. See the Italian/English text side-by-side...

This is a study guide for William Shakespeare's Comedy Much Ado about Nothing.

Click on a scene to read that part of the Shakespearean comedy, As You Like It. This full text of As You Like It was taken from The Oxford Shakespeare.

This lesson focuses on Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1-34 from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. It includes links to the Digital Dante website to read the work, handouts, and a discussion rubric.

This reference from the Folger Shakespeare Library provides information about Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, referred to as Shakespeare's First Folio.

Aristophanes' whimsical comedy, The Birds, is presented here in multiple digital formats. Includes an explanatory introduction.

This is a collection of links to the full texts of all of William Shakespeare's works. They are categorized by genre: Comedy, Tragedy, History, and Poetry.

This site has 41 famous quotations from Shakespeare's comedy "Love's Labour's Lost".

[Free Registration/Login Required] The comedy Much Ado About Nothing, also known as Love's Labour's Won, looks at human relationships from the fiery love affair with Benedick and Beatrice to the filial obligations of Hero to Leonato....

This is a collection of three video lessons about Sammy Davis Jr., comedy, race, segregation in 1960's Hollywood, politics, identity, and The Civil Rights Movement.

In this lesson, students will consider several aspects of Oscar Wilde's most popular of comedies, "The Importance of Being Earnest". The success of this play is in part due to its examination of moral principles - in this case, the...

Read the complete text of Shakespeare's comedy, "Much Ado About Nothing."

View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1991 to commemorate Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. With a short passage on their contributions to both silent films and comedies.

This is a clear summary of Aristotle's major point about comedy.

While Greek tragedt grew farther and farther away from the humor and burlesque so characteristic of the old satyr dances and songs, comedy arose to incorporate within itself much of this early spirit. The comedies supplied...

Masks used in Comedy - Morey, 1903

This site from Bibliomania contains the full text of five of Moliere's plays including "The Misanthrope". Links are provided to navigate through which play the reader wishes to choose. A good site to get full text on Moliere's plays.

An EXTENSIVE biography on the life of entertainer Bob Hope from his early life through the USO shows to his television career. Great examples of images and personal notes and memorabilia.

Read all about the life and accomplishments of Bob Hope who died at the age of 100 in 2003.

This is the full text of the comedic play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show presentation lesson about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night including drawings of the characters in costume and a collection of video clips from Into Film and material from the Victoria...

[Free Registration/Login Required] These resources include terracotta models of an ancient Greek comic mask and two tragic masks from the British Museum as well as ideas for teaching using them. It also includes several links to more...