Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Elizabethan Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson on Elizabethan drama leading up the the reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses the precursor mystery or morality plays including links to Everyman, the most famous of these. It continues with a discussion of how...
Website
University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Moralities and Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Victoria, which is part of a much larger site on Shakespeare, describes morality plays. It also provides examples and links to complete texts of some medieval morality plays.
Handout
Other

Fu Jen University: Morality Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a clear but brief explanation of morality plays, using "Everyman" as an example.
Article
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Medieval Drama and Mystery Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
The mystery plays and morality plays of the 15th and 16th centuries were very different from modern drama. This article takes us back in time to show how these plays portrayed scenes from the Bible, conveyed religious doctrine, and...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Development of English Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
When presented with the problem of hoards of illiterate commoners, English clergymen in the 11th century created plays to spread word about the Bible. Eventually, the plays moved out of the church and into the streets. Mindy Ploeckelmann...