SparkNotes
Spark Notes: No Fear Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
This is the online text of Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare. This version from No Fear Shakespeare offers the original text and a modern English text side-by-side. It also offers a list of characters with short bios of each...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
This site offers the complete text of The Tempest by William Shakespeare in the original middle English and in a modern version side-by-side on each page.
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Marriage and Family in Shakespeare's England
Learning modules explores the concepts of marriage and family in Shakespeare's England, 16th-18th Centuries. Students examine Shakespeare's work and the work of others and gain a sense of familial roles, obligations and how family was...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Shakespeare Translator
This site explains the differences between the Shakespearean English (Elizabethan English) and the Modern English of today and offers a list of common words used by Shakespeare and their meanings.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Contains plans for four lessons that use a "Chicago Tribune" column and other modern sources to teach about the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Shakespeare for the Developmental Reader
Discover how you can open the door of Shakespeare to the developmental reader. This site offers insight into helping students understand Shakespeare's unfamiliar language.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Macbeth
This site features links to lesson plans and other teaching resources for William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Tempest in the Lunchroom
In this lesson plan, young scholars learn to read and act out the shipwreck scene in Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: The Tempest
This site features links to lesson plans and activities for Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: "The Comedy of Errors"
This website provides three ways to read the Shakespearean comedy, "The Comedy of Errors." You can read a "modern" version of the text, by clicking on the specific scenes of the text. Or you can read "The Comedy of Errors" as it first...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: "As You Like It"
This website from the University of Victoria offers three options for those wanting to read the full text of the Shakespearean comedy, "As You Like It." Read a modern edition of the play, which is organized by acts and scenes. Or read...
Other
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: Paraphrase [Pdf]
The complete text of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar accompanied by a paraphrased version in modern English.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: "Measure for Measure"
At this website, there are three ways you can enjoy reading "Measure for Measure." You can read a "modern edition," which is divided into acts and scenes for easy navigation. You can read the text as it "first appeared in the Folio of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Should You Read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?
Iseult Gillespie investigates why the play, "The Tempest," still resonates with modern readers.
TES Global
Tes: The Tempest 2010 Film Guide
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide to the Into version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a mystical thriller with a modern twist (available free from intofilm.org). It provides a short summary, prereading and...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: Twelfth Night: What's So Funny?
Lesson plan in which young scholars draw parallels between modern sensibilities of what is humorous and the comedy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth: Introduction
This is the introduction to a unit on the study of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It discusses Shakespeare's modern English and the difficult reading and Elizabethean drama and the Globe Theater; it offers a short biography of Shakespeare and an...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Intro to Julius Caesar Using Universal Theme Analysis
In this 4-session lesson, students explore the theme of betrayal from different perspectives in their own lives and in modern scenarios through discussions and activities where they create and talk about comic strip scenarios. They...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: The 32 Second Macbeth
Lesson plan features a hands-on activity for uncovering the major plot points of "Macbeth."
Other
Interactive Shakespeare Project: "Measure for Measure"
This is an interactive project on Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," with study questions and movie clips. Click on hyperlinked words to get a "modern" translation of confusing phrases and ideas, and learn more about the play by...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Slideshow Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?
These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. A link to a slideshow featuring images of Native Americans and Europeans which...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?
These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links for extended reading,...