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Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Here you will find information on the history of the Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
The Shakespeare Globe Trust: Shakespeare's Globe
Learn the history of the Globe Theatre and take a look at today's rebuilt Globe.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Globe Theatre
A seven-part learning module with links to a websites, images, and texts about the original Globe Theatre.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Controlled Assessment: Shakespeare's Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson plan to introduce students to Shakespeare's life, the Globe Theater, how Shakespeare attracted his audience, and his work as an actor.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Third Globe
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about the present day Globe Theatre built through the efforts of Sam Wanamaker.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: The Globe
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about the first Globe Theatre including topics such as: Who build the first Globe?, When and where was the Globe built?, What plays were performed at the Globe?, and...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Special Effects
An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about special effects used in plays performed in the Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: History of the Original Globe
This article explains how the original Globe theater came to be when James Burbage and his two sons bought a plot of land near a rival theater and sold shares to some of the actors. Shakespeare bought a share. In 1613 a stage cannon...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheets
Learn more about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre by exploring nine context links: William Shakespeare, London, Special Effects, The Third Globe, The Globe, Playhouses, Audiences, Indoor Theatres, and Writing Plays.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: History of Theatres
This site contains an in-depth history of the Elizabethan Theatre. It contains sections that are specifically about the Rose, Swan, and Globe Theatres.
Other
The Elizabethan Theatre Lecture by Hilda Spear
This lecture and slides traces the history of the Elizabeth theater through a variety of topics: London, inn-yards, great halls, outdoor theatres, performances, indoor threatres, theatre and drama, actors, acting, and audience. These...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Indoor Theatres [Pdf]
An article containing pictures, information, and additional resources about indoor theatres, why they were built, who acted in them, and how they brought about change during William Shakespeare's time.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Playhouses [Pdf]
A PDF containing pictures, information, and additional resources on the two types of playhouses used in London during Shakespeare's time.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Shakespeare for the Developmental Reader
Discover how you can open the door of Shakespeare to the developmental reader. This site offers insight into helping students understand Shakespeare's unfamiliar language.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Macbeth
This site features links to lesson plans and other teaching resources for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Henry Iv, Part 1
This study guide is intended for university and AP students as well as the general reader studying Shakespeare's history play, Henry IV, Part I.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: William Shakespeare for Kids
A webpage about the biography of William Shakespeare who was a playwright for the English theatre during the Renaissance at the Globe Theatre of London.
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Shakespeare and His Critics:"a Lecture on Elizabethan Theatre" by Thomas Larque
This is the text of a lecture on Elizabethan Theatre by Thomas Larque, originally given to Performing Arts students as part of their course in 2001. In it he discusses the following topics: Drama Before Theatres, The First Theatre, The...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: The 32 Second Macbeth
Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Macbeth
Have you ever read any of Shakespeare's work that you don't quite understand? This site features a lesson plan for "Macbeth" that will help your young scholars understand and enjoy his work.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Studying Romeo and Juliet
A site from the UK on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Complete with information on historical context, stagecraft ideas, thematic elements, and in-depth analysis of the tragedy itself.
Britain Express
Britain Express: Tudor: Elizabethan Theatre
This is a general information site on the history of Elizabethan theatre, and points out that Shakespeare and Marlowe were two of the playwrights of the time.
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David Claudon: Dressing for Shakespeare
Learn the difference between farthingales and jerkins, trunk hose and canions by clicking on the Elizabethan Period costumes that Shakespeare's players and audience wore.