[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive slideshow lesson of life in Elizabethan England and Shakespeare's life and works. It includes the ranking of the English Court, Shakespeare's family tree, Shakespeare's life, a...

Huge resource of information on Shakespeare, his times, and his works from "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Includes a chronology, biography, glossary, some learning activities, and more. Be sure to check out the "Multimedia" section for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show of artifacts from Shakespeare's world and notes for teachers which include information about Shakespeare's world that impacted his plays including the following: Information about...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of activities and slide shows to learn about Shakespeare's life and works, Elizabethan England, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The last activity is a quiz or assessment piece.

[Free Registration/Login Required] During these multi-day lessons, students will closely read William Shakespeare's work, The Tempest. Students will analyze characters, plot, and themes. Students will culminate their understanding...

Provides the text of The Two Noble Kinsmen. William Shakespeare and John Fletcher are jointly credited with this play. Takes its text from the 1908 edition of The Shakespeare Apocrypha. This text is formatted for online reading.

[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,...

Read the entire play of "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare in a large font, easy to read format. With links to other Shakespearean plays.

Biographical information about Queen Elizabeth I of England is shared on this reference. Additional information is presented about her connection to Willaim Shakespeare's plays.

An article with pictures, information, and further resources to learn about William Shakespeare's London including such topics as: Why London? What was London like? What were the city's landmarks? and Where did Shakespeare live and work...

Use these questions as a review, writing exercises, or assessment for elementary school students.

For this lesson plan, young scholars create a prompt book of Act 2, Scene 1. Each group of students will focus on a specific emphasis as they edit the scene.

This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher guide with various lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Students will create "silent scenes" of Caesar rejecting and then accepting the crown, in order to better understand the story and its significance. Students will use the Folger edition of Julius Caesar which is provided via a link....

A learning module that begins with "Frailty, Thy Name is Woman" from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

A learning module that begins with "Romeo & Juliet: Act V, Scene III" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

Ten music videos that correspond with themes and events throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette.

A learning module with thirty-eight links to websites, images, videos, and activities for use while reading William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

A learning module with twenty-five links to images, videos, texts, websites, and quizzes to use while reading William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides activities for teaching the "Balcony Scene" of Romeo & Juliet including a video clip, text of parts of the scene, "as if" activities, and exploring the difference between...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PowerPoint with a series of lessons and activities to use for teaching "The Tempest."

This is a 77-page PDF of the full text of the Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing provided by Pennsylvania State University's Electronic Classics Series.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "Civil Blood: Why Are the Capulets and Montagues at War?" by Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of English Literature at Warwick University, discusses the themes of violence and love in...