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Tes: Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of images from the 17th to the 21st centuries from the Victoria and Albert Museum inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream including several video links, costume design...
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Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011 Teacher Pack (Shakespeare Unlocked)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This teacher resource for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the Royal Shakespeare Company, includes an introduction to each of the three scenes, ideas for before and after film viewing, and...
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Tes: Advice for Directing Your School Play Using a Midsummer Night's Dream
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespear Company teacher resource focuses on how to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream as a school play. It offers advice and provides a short summary of each scene followed by questions...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read an overview of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Design a Fairy
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students pretend they are the director and design a costume for Puck; they brief the designer as to how to create it and then brief the actor as to how to play the part. An example and...
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Tes: The Role of the Designer in Performance
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on the role of the designer in creating a set including the four stages of the process of set design and creating settings. Its specific focus is for the set of Shakespeare's...
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Tes: The Role of Music in Performance
[Free Registration/Login Required] "The Role of Music in Performance" by Composer Lynne Plowman is a resource for the Royal Shakespeare Company Education's Dream Team 2016. It provides information about the uses of music in performances.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Comedies
From cross-dressing in Twelfth Night to magical storms in The Tempest; from deception in Much Ado to biting satire in The Alchemist, discover the beauty and complexity of Shakespearean and Renaissance comedies.
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Tes: Shakespeare's Plays
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources includes a diverse range of creative materials for teaching some of Shakespeare's most widely-taught plays. They offer practical approaches and encourage students to make...
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Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Grammar
This site contains an introduction to Shakespeare's grammar and sections on his works, play synopses, Elizabethan England, and more.
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Theatre History: Restoration Drama
This site from TheatreHistory.com provides great information on restoration drama. Links are given throughout for additional information on related subjects. The article is medium sized in length and discusses everthing from women...
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The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare and Love: A Look at How the Bard Takes and Breaks Hearts
In William Shakespeare's plays, characters fight battles and face witches, lead kingdoms and hunt murderers, spend and squander money and friendship. Just as often, though, they focus on what can be an equally difficult struggle: the...