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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Context: Shakespeare's Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] With these resources, learn how Shakespeare lived, meet the playwright, and see a timeline of his works.
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Tes: Introductory Lesson to Shakespeare: Kinaesthetic!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource offers active ways to learn facts about Shakespeare's life and works such as moving about the room collecting facts about Shakespeare and then creating a group collage with them and...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre
[Free Registration/Login Required] With these resources, you can explore the context of genre conventions and the traditions they represent in some of Shakespeare's plays. Use these videos, articles, images, and lessons to see how...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: Comedy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use these resources to explore the comic traditions of Shakespeare and discover how the different plays reflect these conventions and compare with each other. The resources include videos, images,...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Genre: History
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help you determine if Shakespeare's historical plays were accurate or more political and cultural statements about the times he lived in. They include videos, articles,...
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Tes: Othello by William Shakespeare: Worksheet Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete guide to teaching Othello including a short synopsis of each scene followed by questions, an essay assignment on themes, a dramatic function assignment, a glossary of literary terms...
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Tes: Romeo & Juliet Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable reference guide for teachers listing the major themes and motifs in Romeo and Juliet and providing examples of scenes and quotes where you can find them. W.9-10.9a Analysis
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Tes: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet / Analytical Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a four-week lesson with plans, activities, writing assignments, and other assessments for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes themes, language, writing about literature, soliquays,...
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Tes: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Workbook
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 30-page study guide for the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare including "The Prologue" and excerpts from the text with questions, research on the context of the play, figurative...
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Tes: The Tempest Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher reference guide for the themes and motifs in Shakespeare's The Tempest. It lists the major themes and motifs and provides examples with text references.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Pre Reading Romeo and Juliet
This site shares a two-day lesson that will help students prepare for reading Romeo and Juliet. Students will read and perform the prologue of Romeo and Juliet and engage in the analysis of the play's meaning, get to know the style and...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use these resources including historical objects and background information to learn what living in Shakespeare's time was like and how it shaped his works.
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Folger Shakespeare Library: 10 Ways to Be a Shakespeare Expert
This article, written by Ellen Edwards and orginally published in the Washington Post, provides 10 interesting "fun facts" about William Shakespeare.
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Folger Shakespeare Library: What Is a Shakespeare First Folio?
This reference from the Folger Shakespeare Library provides information about Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, referred to as Shakespeare's First Folio.
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Folger Shakespeare Library: Who Am I?
Main characters from some of the works of William Shakespeare are quizzed on this resource from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Folktales
This slideshow focuses on folktales including defining and providing background information, stating their common elements, and providing literary examples such as "Johnny Appleseed" and "Robin Hood."
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Sophia: Selecting Topics for Literary Analysis
A series of resources designed to teach students how to write a literary analysis. The first is a screencast [6 mins] that focuses on defining and introducing the parts of a literary analysis. The second is a slide show with seven slides...
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Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare
This tutorial focuses on analyzing Shakespeare's works using "Midsummer Nights Dream" in the form of a downloadable PowerPoint presentation. It also provides "Tools for Analysis of Tragedy and Tragic Action" and a YouTube video...
Yale University
Yale University: Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Theory of Literature
Access any one of twenty-five lectures, in audio, video, or text format, from a university-level course in literary analysis and critical literary theories. Considers postmodernism, New Criticism, feminism, deconstructionism, and an...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Themes in Literature
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
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Tes: Othello Workbooklet, Gcse Coursework, Lit./lang.
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a study guide for Act 1 Scene 1 of Othello including writing an essay, locating quotes to support ideas, creating characters, and acting out the scene.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This is a collection of links to the full texts of all of William Shakespeare's works. They are categorized by genre: Comedy, Tragedy, History, and Poetry.
British Library
British Library: Prose and Verse in Shakespeare's Plays
An article discussing how Shakespeare used prose and verse in his plays, and what we can learn from this. The author cites numerous examples from Shakespeare's plays and a few from other authors. Includes images of documents in the...