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Articles “ ‘To Perform or Not to Perform?’ A Question Worth Exploring” by Ginny Graham explores options for performing Shakespeare as a class activity and includes guidelines and tips (English Journal, September 2002). “Shakespearean Slide Shows” by Rosalind Flynn details the drama technique of human slide shows as a way to explore meaning through staging (English Journal, September 2002). “Translating Shakespeare” by Frances Gilbert suggests that students may gain insight by approaching reading Shakespeare as a translation. “Shakespeare’s Leap” by Stephen Greenblatt explores the connection between his life and works, the creative leap he made, and what made Shakespeare Shakespeare (New York Times, 12 September 2004). |
Biography “20 Things You Never Knew about Shakespeare” by Robert Gore-Langton reveals something new (Sunday Times, 31 May 2010). “Ten Ways Shakespeare Changed the World” by Robert McCrum looks at the bard’s long-term impact on our modern world (Guardian, 17 April 2016). “Will Power” by Adam Gopnik reviews Greenblatt’s Will in the World will a focus on elements of critical biography (New Yorker, 12 September 2004). |
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Infographs I love infographs which can be hard to view on screen -- they need to be downloaded, printed, and taped together to be best displayed. That said, click on the images below to launch the full-sized infographic. |
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Best Shakespeare Sites Absolute Shakespeare offers summaries overviews, some criticism, and text of the plays. Focus is on the more frequently taught plays. BBC In Search of Shakespeare traces Shakespeare’s life in two parts. Early Years and Later Years (archived). Cummings Shakespeare Guides offer a varied mix of information written just for the site and links to scholarly resources. Ed the Pathology Guy -- Ed Friedlander has his own twist on several Shakespearean plays. Not certain that his insight is tempered by being a pathologist, but what he offers is a unique interpretation, straightforward, unexpected.
The New Globe: Teaching Shakespeare offers extensive resources, with handouts and activities. Virtual Tour of the reconstructed theater amazes. Virtual Tour: Globe 360 App is downloadable for your own device. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust offers extensive biographical resources.
Shakespeare at ThoughtCo. (formerly About.com) is a great starting place with annotated links. An unusual mix of quirky and thorough. Shakespeare Resource Center is comprehensive and well-organized.
Shakespeare Quotes: 37 in under 2 minutes. Text Detectives from the RSC uses film clips to explain terms, interpret scenes, and explore clues actors look at when first approaching a text. Now on YouTube. Triangulating Shakespeare archives a selection of college level teaching materials -- online syllabi, lecture notes, and critical essays -- as well as student work -- papers, pictures, and performances on RealPlayer video clips. Web English Teacher offers links for teachers for fourteen of the plays. |
Just for Fun Art to Enchant: Shakespeare and Illustrators from Washington University presents lesser known illustrations and an excellent introductory essay. Bardolatry is a site that specializes in the unexpected Shakespearean goodies -- up-to-date reviews of productions all over the country, t-shirts, long-lost videos. Hard to describe exactly what it is.
Every Shakespeare Play Summed Up in a Single Sentence. Yes, really. Wait for it -- a very loooong load. Shakespeare Illustrated represents years of work finding, scanning, and linking all the art derived from Shakespeare’s plays. Wow! Shakespearean Insulter can help you find the words to put someone in their place. Shakespeare’s Globe Theater Paper Cutouts lets you print and construct a Globe model. Shakespearience Poster by T. E. Breitenbach $18 ($21 signed) illustrates famous phrases from Shakespeare. YouTube video about the poster and its word play.
Shakesongs: Discovering Shakespeare Through Song -- Quirky but worth a look. Charles and Mary Lamb retold Shakespeare for children in their Tales from Shakespeare. Ebook Audiofile Online Talk like Shakespeare. Also offers suggestions on how to blog and twitter like the bard. TED Talks -- Shakespeare Is Everywhere, Why Shakespeare?, and Hip Hop and Shakespeare. Three Little Pigs in Shakespearean style by John Branyan. Script. Titles from Shakespeare collects all the various allusions to Shakespearean plays and the various books and movies inspired by his words. Overwhelming! The TV Viewer’s Guide to Shakespeare by J. E. Consolmagno is the best of the best! Originally in the April 1978 American Way, the inflight magazine of American Airlines. Each play is described as if it were a TV Guide entry. Twittered Shakespeare -- The infamous Complete Works of Shakespeare as Tweets. Let the storm begin! |
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Texts My Shakespeare is a media rich, interactive, student-friendly site that covers six major plays, for free. As good as it gets! Study Tools allow notes, highlighing, and annotations. Multiple-choice questions (with immediate feedback) and open-ended written responses can also be exported. The text itself includes interlinear glossing (which can be turned on and off), audio playback of text, a plain English translation, footnotes, performance videos of specific scenes, and character interviews for full scenes. I cannot overstate how useful this is — color coding of highlighting and tagging are perfect for essay and research planning. Like tracing an image strand through a whole play. The six plays are Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Lynch Multimedia offers adaptations, simplified prose versions of Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Anthony & Cleopatra, and A Winter's Tale.
Internet Shakespeare Editions includes the text, an overview of criticism, and relevant background for each play. Life and times covers history, society, staging and productions, and significant ideas.
No Fear Shakespeare from SparkNotes offers free parallel text editions. Quality of the “translations” varies, but these will help students who are struggling. Crazy amount of ad popups! Shakespeare Navigators for Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy are user-friendly hypertext study guides.
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Handouts
Materials on the Comedies
Shake Hands with Shakespeare -- An interesting guide designed to introduce Shakespeare to elementary students. It includes games and lessons from Shakespeare’s school days. |
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Shakespeare in LoveViewing Guide and Exam available. |
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Multiple Plays -- Festivals Chicago Shakespeare Theater has Teacher Handbooks for more than twenty plays. Some titles include online resources, criticism, and more. Classic Stage Company is a quirky youth-oriented New York Theatre with interesting Study Guides for major plays. Johnstonia, retired Professor Ian Johnston’s extensive Lecture Series includes a Studies in Shakespeare course. All wonderful introductions to often-taught plays. Oregon
Shakespeare Festival at Ashland has more than thirty Archived Study Guides and a Video Archive with short clips and trailers. Shakespeare in America (National Endowment for the Arts) general introduction.
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Complete Works of Shakespeare
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The Globe Globe Theater Scavenger Hunt with Answers -- original and rebuilt Diagram Images of the Globe -- 1, 2, 3 Factsheets -- short handouts with basic information A Day at the Globe with Journal -- PowerPoint with writing assignment. English Theater PowerPoint -- very large file.
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