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Shakespeare Globe Trust

The Shakespeare Globe Trust: Shakespeare's Globe

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of the Globe Theatre and take a look at today's rebuilt Globe.
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Shakespeare Globe Trust

Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: History of Theatres

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an in-depth history of the Elizabethan Theatre. It contains sections that are specifically about the Rose, Swan, and Globe Theatres.
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Other

The Elizabethan Theatre Lecture by Hilda Spear

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Shakespeare for the Developmental Reader

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: The 32 Second Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."
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Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
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Other

David Claudon: Dressing for Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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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...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: The Companies

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines the acting companies involved in the original and early productions of Shakespeare's plays.