National Arts Centre
Scavenger Hunt
Young theatre artists engage in a scavenger hunt to acquaint themselves with set design. The challenge is to search the site and match a separate maquette with each of the 24 clues.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dreams, Illusion and Doubling
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare explores and reflects upon Elizabethan debates around the nature of dreams. These activities revolve around how the structure, characters and themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream reflect this...
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: 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...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: A Midsummer Night's Dream
This comedy written around 1596 is a play about four sets of couples and their complicated lives. This site provides fascinating insights into the characters, themes and quotations from the play.