Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: Education Resources: Macbeth
A synopsis of Macbeth with background and discussion of the play, a synopsis, and history of past play productions. Includes downloadable teacher guide.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Full Scheme & Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] A complete unit on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"
This lesson plan accompanies a reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth and lets students explore Macbeth's "response to fear" through studying metaphor, imagery, and dramatic cues and by performing a scene.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Power Players
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson on the Power Players in Shakespeare's Macbeth; it includes a PowerPoint lesson, video clips of the "Battle Scene" and a Macbeth movie trailer, and a variety of activities...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Study Guide: Macbeth
A comprehensive study guide for teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth. Includes the a synopsis, a character map, historical context, a thematic study, and pre/post viewing activities. Links to re-mixing scenes from Macbeth, and an insider's guide.
TES Global
Tes: Reel to Real: Adapting Macbeth: "Throne of Blood"
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides students with the opportunity to compare different adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It includes links to two different adaptations "Throne of Blood" and a second option. These...
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Introduction to Witchcraft Context Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show lesson focuses context of witchcraft in Shakespeare's Macbeth including learning about witchcraft in the 17th century, identifying a witch, the timeline of The Witch Acts, and watching...
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Plays
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources includes a diverse range of creative materials for teaching some of Shakespeare's most widely-taught plays. They offer practical approaches and encourage students to make...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the complete text of Shakespeare's works. Content also includes a search engine (for looking up words and/or phrases), a chronological and alphabetical listing of his plays, a collection...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "Macbeth"
A thorough review of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test. Beneficial for all students, however, studying Shakespeare or the play. With links to context, plot, characters, dramatic...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth
This is an introduction to the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare. It provides background information, his use of historical people and events, the orgins of Macbeth, links to a summary of the text, and No Fear Shakespeare, which...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth, Act Iii
This is a guide to the reading of Act III of Macbeth. It offers background information, links to vocabulary, a summary of the act, hyperlinked notes, the text of the act, questions, and an alternative text. It also asks students to write...
Folger Shakespeare Library
It's Elementary! Stomping and Romping With Shakespeare
In this elementary school-age lesson, children will learn about rhythm and meter through the lines of William Shakespeare. Students will recite and "act out" the song lines from "A Winter's Song" found in Love's Labour's Lost and "A...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth, Act I
This is a guide to the reading of Act I of Macbeth. It offers background information, links to vocabulary, a summary of the act, hyperlinked notes, the text of the act, questions, and an alternative text.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth, Act Iv
This is a guide to the reading of Act IV of Macbeth. It offers background information, links to vocabulary, a summary of the act, hyperlinked notes, the text of the act, questions, and an alternative text. It also provides a link to the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth, Act V
This is a guide to the reading of Act V of Macbeth. It offers background information, links to vocabulary, a summary of the act, hyperlinked notes, the text of the act, questions, and an alternative text. It also provides a thought...
Other
Archive It: Macbeth Plugged
This website provides an annotated, on-line version of the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth. It provides an introduction, character bios with images, themes, a glossary, summaries of each scene of each Act, and the complete text with...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Macbeth, Act Ii
This is a guide to the reading of Act II of Macbeth. It offers background information, links to vocabulary, a summary of the act, hyperlinked notes, the text of the act, questions, and an alternative text. It also provides three tasks:...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: William Shakespeare
Here find links to the full texts of William Shakespeare's plays as well as study guides. (Note: Some of the links may no longer work.)
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Shakespeare's Life and Times
This resource deals with Shakespeare's life, society, drama, art, music, politics and history of that time. The full text to many of Shakespeare's plays is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Tales From Shakespeare
This site from Bibliomania provides great information on Charles Lamb's Shakespeares works. Includes a brief summary, then lists his famous plays, and each has a summary that can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding link. This is...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Shakespeare's Life and Times: History and Politics
This section on the life and times of Shakespeare addresses the stories behind his 'histories'.
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Macbeth Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of 18th and 19th-century images from the Victoria and Albert Museum which includes three images inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth. Ideas for their use is also provided.