Shakespeare - Lesson Plans and Links

Learning Objectives:
Learn about the areas on the proscenium stage and recognize the different body positions an actor uses on the stage. Understand the director of a play chooses the best actor for a role based on auditions and act as director to cast Romeo and Juliet.

 The essential William Shakespeare resource with Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems. Study Shakespeare with plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, pictures, timeline, trivia, the Globe Theatre and links. 

A comprehensive site listing links to his works, study guides (on-line and printable teacher's guides), history links to the renaissance period.

• Shakespeare Timeline
• Online quiz

Level: Senior, Adult
Keywords: poetry, plays, Shakespeare

Encyclopedia Britannica on-line with introduction, The Globe, Biographies, The Plays, The Elizabethan Context

• 25 On-Line Quizzes
• Activities and Teacher's Guides
  

This is an excellent source for teachers to find ready-made lessons with links provided!

A comprehensive site listing links to his works, study guides (on-line and printable teacher's guides), history links to the renaissance period.
Level: Senior, Adult

The man, the works, play synopses, Shakespeare's Will, authorship debate, The Globe, Elizabethan England, and a great source of links.

 Many teaching ideas by clicking on Teacher's Resources.  Then view the on-line field trip to find a great on-line unit and useful links embedded in the unit.

Graphics, descriptions, and directions for making costumes of the Tudor and Elizabethan eras.

Play synopses. Other playwrights, drama lessons.

Lesson plans.

Listings by type, chronologically, and alphabetically.

Teacher's Guide to accompany the viewing of the PBS show dealing with the controversy surrounding the question "Who wrote Shakespeare's' plays?"

On-line quizzes by scene.

Links to lesson plans and on-line copies of the plays.