An essay describing Middleton's farcical comedies.

An analysis of the style in which Middleton writes.

This site provides information in Spanish on Isabel Allende, the Chilean writer. Features include a chronology, interviews, photographs, and summaries of her novels, stories, and plays. English version available.

A history of theater in Australia, with links to many articles, plays, performers, and other things related to Australia's theater history.

[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...

Biographical essay on Lope de Vega, the most respected playwright of Renaissance Spain. Features extensive personal information and a bibliography of de Vega's plays and other works.

Website of a national group that advocates community theater, with tips, links, jobs, play sources and membership info and benefits.

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...

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.

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 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.

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 Internet Classics Archive offers this full text version this story of revenge and the triumph of reason.

This site contains, in outline form, Aristotle's "six parts of a tragedy." The Plot is discussed in length on this site. The author goes into the exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution of the plot.

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 full script of "When We Dead Awaken" is available here in plain text format, making it easy to search for keywords and phrases.

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

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this teaching resource, students will learn about the synopsis, background, and actors of the National Theatre's production of The Tempest. Reading and writing lessons are included in this resource.

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...

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...

Gelatin. It's hard to think of another food that is used as frequently on the dinner table as off. You can find it in all sorts of sweet foods, from ice cream, yogurt, and gummy bears, to marshmallows and yellow colorings for sodas. Off...

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!