These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...

This is the full text of the five-act tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare.

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes are found after each scene. An extensive list of...

This resource provides links to lesson plans, activities, study guides, and other teaching ideas for Shakespeare's "Othello."

Cross-curricular ideas, historical context, focus on language and other features make this 17 page .pdf document a help for anyone planning to teach Shakespeare's "Othello."

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of photos of Othello and Iago from various productions of Shakespeare's Othello that could be used to compare interpretations and spark discussion.

Selected (7) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with the drama "Othello" by William Shakespeare. Othello, a revered general of the Venetian army, has his newlywed wife meet him in Cyprus where he's stationed. But while there his...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This article focuses on various adaptations of Shakespeare's play Othello.

[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets and charts focus on Desdemona and Emilia as they move respectively from resistance to domination to submission to domination in Othello by William Shakespeare.

Read an overview of the play "Othello" by William Shakespeare and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Othello - from sex in early modern Venice and race in Shakespeare's London, to Coleridge's critique of the play and Ira Aldridge's ground-breaking performance....

This activity allows learners to consider how different critical approaches can influence a reading of the play. Students will work in groups to explore different attitudes to Othello by looking at a range of texts from the past,...

A lesson plan focusing on the power of Iago's language, as shown through his crafty deception of Othello, "Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language" provides several links to information on Shakespeare, Othello, and rhetoric.

Read the full text of Shakespeare's tragedy, "Othello." The play's text is organized by scene.

The depth of this resource will surprise you. The ninety-three page .pdf contains background information about Shakespeare as well as detailed information about the play itself, commentaries and critical essays, and production notes from...

Illustrations from various editions of Shakespeare's "Othello" provided for by the Emory University.

This is an assignment to write a detailed 850-word explication over one of two passages in Shakespeare's Othello. In the assignment, he explains what an explication is and is not and how to go about writing one. He also explains exactly...

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Othello, a Novel" by Julius Lester. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was written around 1603. This interesting site analyses the major characters, the themes and talks about important quotations in the play.

There's commentary here about each act and explication for quite a number of important passages.

Lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Othello" that introduces students to the play's themes and language.

Use these questions for springboards to discussion, act by act, of race and jealousy in the play.

Shakespeare Uncovered combines history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passions of its celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The Series 3 resources:...

From Hamlet's melancholy to Juliet's eloquence; and from Othello's misunderstanding to Doctor Faustus's damnation, discover the richness of Shakespearean and Renaissance tragedies.