Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation provides basic information about William Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, and the tragic play Othello. It explains the major characters in the play and their motivations and...

Use this teacher resource to get students more involved in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Sections of the Teacher Pack include Creating the Worlds of the Play, The Court and the Forest, Creating Characters, Using Movement, and Playing a...

This is a 21-page PDF study guide for Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing entitled "Will Power Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing" from the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at Desales University. It provides information about...

Career insights about working in the health, performing arts, and broadcasting professions. Find interviews with people who work in these fields, tours of work places, and "job play" interactives that let you experience what life is like...

Background information on Shakespeare's play, Antony and Cleopatra, a synopsis of the play, and interviews with the director and the designer of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 production will deepen understanding of the play.

Teachers will find a wide variety of resources to help them introduce Shakespeare to students, whether they are approaching the plays as literature or as theater. Actors and other experts from the company offer insight into the plays...

This anti-war play, first produced in January, 426 B.C. by Aristophanes, is presented here. Footnotes aid in understanding terms and names. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.

This site provides a complete text from the Internet Classics Archive of the play "The Clouds," by Aristophanes. This great satire mocks Socrates and other great learners.

The whole play is available here from MIT's Internet Classic Archive.

ArtsAlive provides a detailed look into world of professional theatre. Thematically organized content walks through all the processes involved in "transforming a play from the page to the stage," including playwriting, directing, acting,...

The text of Euripides' ancient play, Hippolytus, is offered at this clearly formatted site.

Henrik Ibsen's play is available here to download or read online in multiple digital formats.

In this 9-12 lesson, students will explore the Arthurian codes of chivalry and courtly love as portrayed in art, modern films, books, and poetry. They will examine the way in which these ideals have influenced our modern concepts of...

Find here the complete text of the play Antigone by Sophocles.

This unit is geared towards grades 4-8, but could be used with ESL high school young scholars. Contains lesson plans integrating language arts and social studies, with a bibliography, a play, recipe, and a reading list for students.

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.

Arthur Miller is presented in this biography for his plays revolving around post-World War II America, paying particular attention to the middle class and effects of Communism. See "Arthur Miller Activities" for related materials.

The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German theatre sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German theatre, new drama from Germany, theatre projects world-wide, and even brief descriptions...

An extensive collection from the Federal Theatre Project, part of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which provided funds for the arts during the second phase of the New Deal. Find play scripts, posters, and stage and costume...

This is a collection of eight video lessons about Lorraine Hansberry and her famous play "Raisin in the Sun."

View William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" in its entirety divided by scene and act in this site from Shakespeare Online. With links to other Shakespeare plays, analysis, essays, biographies, videos, and more!

In William Shakespeare's plays, characters fight battles and face witches, lead kingdoms and hunt murderers, spend and squander money and friendship. Just as often, though, they focus on what can be an equally difficult struggle: the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource from the National Theatre will assist students interpret the dramati production William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.