Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
Read the complete text of this domestic tragedy. Multiple formats of the text are available.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg: When We Dead Awaken
The full script of "When We Dead Awaken" is available here in plain text format, making it easy to search for keywords and phrases.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Birds by Aristophanes
Aristophanes' whimsical comedy, The Birds, is presented here in multiple digital formats. Includes an explanatory introduction.
TES Global
Tes: The Role of Music in Performance
[Free Registration/Login Required] "The Role of Music in Performance" by Composer Lynne Plowman is a resource for the Royal Shakespeare Company Education's Dream Team 2016. It provides information about the uses of music in performances.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Biblioteca Virtual Lope De Vega
Superb reference to the Spanish texts of many of the literary works of Lope de Vega (1562-1635 CE). Catalogs have other available language options.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Box Office Manager: Kids Work!
The Box Office Manager manages the office that books and sells tickets for the theater. Students will play the role of a box office manager and understand his duties and responsibilities. This animated interactive job exploration...
Other
American Repertory Theatre: Adrienne Kennedy
At this site is a listing of Adrienne Kennedy's plays, awards, and the different countries in which she lived. There are multiple blue-highlighted links that open up to extensive information about commissioned assignments, a first-person...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Greece: What Is the Earth Made Of?
Dionysus is a Greek God. and a theater director. Help him get ready for the play and learn about land, water, and air. After completing this lesson, students should be able to identify the different materials Earth is made up from (land,...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Bullies Be Gone [Pdf]
Students write narratives, poetry and dialogue about their experiences with bullying. Through observation and reflection, their work becomes a readers' theater production to share with their peers on how to make their school a safe...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This is the full text of Part 1 of the play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe including an introduction, dedication, a prologue for the theater and a prologue in Heaven.
Other
Dot Dash: The Balance Small Business: How Copyright Works With Social Media
The copyright process has become fairly simple with traditional works like books, plays, movies, and theater. But copyright is a little more difficult with the advent of the internet. For example, bloggers must be aware of what they...
Can Teach
Can Teach : Drama Ideas
In this lesson plan use dramatic games and improvisations to liven up the classroom and help students communicate better. These lesson plans can be adapted to a number of curricular subjects. Suited for elementary students.
Other
Thalia Spanish Theatre
The Thalia Spanish Theatre is a nonprofit theatre whose purpose is to serve the cultural needs of the Hispanic community in New York. They are the only Spanish theatre in Queens, NY.
PBS
Pbs: Oedipus the King: An Introduction to Greek Drama
One of the main objectives for this lesson is for students to gain an insight into Greek tragedy. This site features a detailed lesson plan.
Able Media
Classics Technology Center: For Oedipus the King
This site provides a study guide to aid in the reading of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. Contains questions for consideration, links to outside information, and footnotes to help enhance knowledge.
Other
Aichi Arts Center: Aging With Grace: A Brief Review of "A Burden of Love"
This site provides a review and summary of Zeami's noh drama, "A Burden of Love." The author includes details about how the noh performer would portray a part.
Other
Children's Theatre: Creative Drama
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
Other
Surfing With the Bard Lesson Plans: As You Like It
Delve into the world of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" when you visit this lesson plan. This lesson plan focuses on introducing you to the four central characters.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Middleton and Rowley
An essay describing Middleton's farcical comedies.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Middleton and Rowley
An analysis of the style in which Middleton writes.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Marston's Life
A brief biography of John Marston's life and career.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: George Bernard Shaw
A detailed, concise biographical note about the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). Covers his works and socialist politics. Features a selected bibliography of books by and about him.
University of Virginia
Univeristy of Virginia Electronic Text Center: Cymbeline
William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" can be viewed for free by act and scene or as the entire work on this site by University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Clouds by Aristophanes
Translated by William James Hickie, this full version of the Aristophanes comedy, The Clouds, is presented in multiple digital formats.