California Department of Education
Tragoidia and Catharsis: A Retelling of Classical Tragedies
What a tragedy! Scholars take a close look at Greek tragedy in the form of plays. After analyzing plays, learners think about a play that relates to their own personal anxiety and recreate or reinterpret a scene from that play.
Royal Shakespeare Company
King Lear Teacher Pack 2016
Disguises, deceptions, destruction. Thankless children, wise fools, aging rulers, and knaves. The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2016 King Lear Teacher Pack provides instructors with a wealth of resources for a study of Shakespeare's famous...
Curated OER
Classical Greece and Rome
Covering the playwrights and characteristics of ancient Greek dramas, this presentation would be a good starter to a unit about the culture or about the genre of tragedies. Though titled "Classical Greece and Rome," there isn't any...
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education
Color Moods
Can art be a mode of communication? You bet it can! Learners explore how colors are used to convey mood in art. First, the class listens to three very unique musical selections that convey three different moods. Then, they compare...
Curated OER
Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
Students read a Japanese Noh play and discuss its structure and traditional characters. They choose a short myth and write a Noh play based on it.
Curated OER
Lesson Plan for Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1938)
Students study the life and music of composer, Samuel Barber. In groups, representing trees, water, and stars they use interpretive dance to tell the story of the musical composition, 'Adagio for Strings, Op. 11' by Barber.
Curated OER
Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
Students analyze the conventions used in Noh plays and write an introduction to a Noh play of their own. In this Noh play lesson, students identify the conventions of the Noh form and analyze the realizations the main character achieves....
Curated OER
Music Drama & Richard Wagner: The Lord Of The Ring
Students study Richard Wagner and his idea of "Music Drama". Students listen to his music, pantomime, and lead "music dramas" to discover Wagner's idea of the world of composition and drama.
Curated OER
Written Report How Music Motivates
Students examine the role of music in their lives. They listen to songs from the Civil Rights movement. They explain how music effects their thinking.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Orestes by Euirpides
The Internet Classics Archive offers this full text version this story of revenge and the triumph of reason.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: The Heracleidae by Euripides
The whole play is available here from MIT's Internet Classic Archive.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Andromache by Euripides
This full text of Euripedes tragedy translated by E. P. Coleridge with readers comments.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: The Trojan Women
This site is provided for by the Internet Classics Archive. Read the play, "The Trojan Women" in English, plus read and/or add comments, download the play, check out related websites, or recommend a related website.
Other
The Classics Pages: Oedipus and the Sphinx
An essay about the significance of the sphinx in "Oedipus the King," the tragedy by Sophocles. The essay begins with an examination of the Great Sphinx at Giza, discussing its appearance, age, and likely purpose.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Euripides: The Bacchae
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The Bacchae, by Euripides. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the play and find dozens of rich and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Euripides' Helen
The literary drama "Helen," written by Euripides in 412 BC, is translated here by E. P. Coleridge.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Aeschylus' famous play, Agamemnon, was written in 458 BCE. The full text available here provides an important perspective on the figure of Agmamemnon in ancient Greek culture.
Eserver
E Server: Drama Collection: Electra by Sophocles
Read the entire tragic episode in the story of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's family play at this Iowa State University EServer site.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Star Cross'd and Starry Eyed
From the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows what lies in store for the tragedy's title teens: that these two "star-crossed lovers" are doomed to die. By the end of the play, an "ancient grudge"...