"Strike a Pose:" Music and Vogueing in The Winter's Tale

It's not the best of guides nor the worst of guides, but time spent examining the guide to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is certainly not wasted. The 17-page guide includes book-by-book synopses of the novel, before,...

After reading the first act of The Winter's Tale, class members conduct a trial and consider Leontes' accusations against Herminone.

Varier wag? I'fecks? Posterns? As part of their vocabulary study, readers of The Winter's Tale try their hand at crafting Shakespearian-style sentences using words drawn from the play.

Check students' understanding of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, the clever spin-off that borrows characters and ideas from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Plenty of detailed questions keep scholars on their toes. Answers...

Seven quick slides give your class the "facts" on Paul Bunyan. This tall tale was made up to entertain lumberjacks and many interesting points are detailed here. As you study various folk tales, show this presentation to portray one of...

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Winter's Tale. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Helpful resources are found at the end of each scene. Related articles...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video from Royal Shakespeare Company's (2013) production of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale (Act 3, Scene 2), Hermione proclaims her innocence of the charges of adultery and conspiracy and...

Students examine several possible ways of understanding Leontes' jealousy through close reading, a performance activity, and the use of a primary source document. They, in groups, perform a scene.

Read the full text of the play, "The Winter's Tale." The text of this Shakespearean comedy is organized according to scene.

After class members have read and discussed Act III of The Winter’s Tale, groups select one line from Act III, scene i that they feel captures the essence of the entire scene. They then create a tableaux that best depicts the scene’s...