Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: Education Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Information about and video clips of scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Includes interviews with the cast and directors, performance clips and ideas for students.
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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream in the Classroom
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...
British Library
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.
TES Global
Tes: Midsummer Night's Dream: Magic Flower Task
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students design an advertisement for a magic flower like Oberon does in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They begin by answering questions as to product name, what it does, how it works, the...
TES Global
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...
TES Global
Tes: Guide to Shakespeare for Gcse English Enrichment
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides teacher guides to 10 film adaptations of Shakespeare plays to teach students to become critical viewers including Macbeth, Lion King, She's the Man, Caesar Must Die, William...
British Library
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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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.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Magic, Illusion, and the Supernatural
Mischievous fairies, monstrous apparitions, and scheming witches: examine how Shakespeare and Renaissance writers played with the magical and supernatural.
John F. Kennedy Center
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...