Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: Macbeth Commentary
Read a complete description of each act, with explanations and explications of important passages.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: Othello Commentary
There's commentary here about each act and explication for quite a number of important passages.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Commentary
Each act of the famous play is explained here, with plenty of references to specific lines and quotations.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice Commentary
Each act is covered in this commentary, often through explanations of specific lines from the play.
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Absolute Shakespeare: The Tempest Commentary
Explaining each act of The Tempest, this site includes explanations of important quotations as well.
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Absolute Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Commentary
Each act of the play is commented on here, often making reference to specific lines and speeches.
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Twelfth Night Revision
This entire site is dedicated to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and it contains a wealth of resources for the Shakespearean comedy. In addition to summaries of each act, it contains interactive quizzes over the entire play, the...
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Novel Guide: Measure for Measure
This study guide for Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," in addition to providing a summary of the text, gives character profiles and theme analyses. Also included is a brief biography of William Shakespeare.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Digital Notebook to Visualize Thematic Links
Students will work in groups of two or three to produce two pages of a digital scrapbook covering a thematic element from Macbeth. The pages will then be assembled into a visual review of the play's themes and character motivations...
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National Math + Science Initiative: Vocabulary Study: Julius Caesar [Pdf]
This lesson unit covers vocabulary used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Includes list of fifty SAT words with an accompanying glossary and references to the play, grouped under each act. This is followed by a fill-in-the-blank activity...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Macbeth
Students explore the ideas of ambition and failure. They learn that conflicts serve as the basis of a text's meaning and that identifying the internal and external conflicts of a story reveals the motivations of complex characters. They...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: The Companies
This article examines the acting companies involved in the original and early productions of Shakespeare's plays.
The English Teacher
Teacher2b.com: Teaching Language in King Lear
A teacher shares thoughts and ideas on teaching King Lear.
TES Global
Tes: Romeo & Juliet: Students Direct the Fight Scene
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable worksheet to help students think about how they would direct the fight scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students answer questions about how and why four of the characters...
Emory University
Emory University: "As You Like It"
Clickable list of paintings inspired by scenes in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" with text.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Romeo and Juliet
Resources for Romeo and Juliet consist of a summary, analysis of themes and characters, a list of questions, and teacher resources. Each of the Acts and Scenes are discussed in great detail. An excellent set of questions is also included.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Setting: Not Just the Time and Place
This is a tutorial focusing on setting including time, place, deeper meanings, multiple settings, etc. Shakespeare's Romeo acts as the guide. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Character Development
Students read Act II, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet and explore how Shakespeare develops Friar Lawrence's characteristics.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Lord Chamberlain's Men
This resource provides some insight to Lord Chamberlain's Men, some of which have links for more information.
Other
The Holloway Pages: "Love's Labour's Lost" (Second Folio 1632)
This website presents a "facsimile copy of the play Love's Labour's Lost" as it was published for the Second Folio in 1632.
TES Global
Tes: Education Workpack: Romeo and Juliet
[Free Registration/Login Required] This module provides information about the National Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet. All content will easily supplement the play, along with the extended research options provided.