Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: King Lear
Full text of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare. Features links to a page about the character King Lear and the Shakespeare Homepage.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: King Lear
Broaden your knowledge of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," when you explore this site. This resource features links to several other educational sites with lesson plans, activities, study guides and more.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: King Lear Study Guide
An extensive resource for William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Resources include but are not limited to: play overview, play analysis, character analysis, famous quotes from the play, and pronunciation. Exam questions and scene by...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: King Lear by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act historic play King Lear by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: "King Lear"
Some background of William Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" provided by the University of Victoria. It discusses a variety of aspects of the play including societal, historical, intellectual, and literary background, as well as staging.
University of Pennsylvania
English Renaissance in Context: King Lear
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: King Lear: The Disintegration of the Social Structure
These activities encourage students to examine the tensions that characterized the political and social landscape of the early 17th century and to compare these with fears about the disintegration of the social structure expressed in...
Emory University
Emory University: King Lear
This site from the Emory University provides illustrations from various editions of Shakespeare's "King Lear."
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "King Lear" [Pdf]
Shakespeare's language, the historical context of the play, scene by scene synopsis, and ideas for differentiating instruction are all features of this 18-page .pdf guide.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shakespeare Uncovered: Collection
Shakespeare Uncovered combines history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passions of its celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The Series 3 resources:...
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...
University of Pennsylvania
English Renaissance in Context: Unediting Lear
Since a number of different versions of Shakespeare's play King Lear have been found, which should be consitered the "real" one? Great multimedia tutorial that examines this problem faced by Shakespeare scholars.
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.
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: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Family
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of links to help students see how Shakespeare used the theme of family relationships that are still relevant today.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare site that includes the texts of all of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's other work is listed, but texts are not available. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: King Lear: Astrologers and Skeptics
Lesson plan questioning the degree to which Elizabethan audiences believed in destiny and astrology.
New York University
Nyu: William Shakespeare Literature Annotations
Helpful but concise literature annotations on some of Williams Shakespeare's (1564-1616 CE) works.
PBS
Pbs: Representation & Diversity on Stage/screen: Raul Julia: The World's a Stage
Despite Raul Julia's talents, opportunities for Latinx actors in the United States in the 1960's were scarce. In this series of two videos from the American Masters film Raul Julia: The World's a Stage, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos...