Shakespeare

=Shakespeare=

[|Open Source Shakespeare] This site contains the complete works of Shakespeare. The beauty of it is the comprehensive search functions that you can perform within the site. Search within a text, for a character or for a definition of a particular word.

[|Absolute Shakespeare] The essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre. = = =Shakespeare - Life and Times=

[|Shakespeare timeline] [|Shakespeare's Life and Times] [|Life and Times] [|Dress the Tudor Game] See if you can tell the difference between Victorian and Tudor costume

Shakespearean Language
[|Shakespearean Insulter] Random insults taken from Shakespearean language. [|Shakespeare Insults Generator] Random insults taken from Shakespearean language. [|Ye Olde Official Shakespeare Insulter] Much like the above insult generators except this is not random - rather students can create their own insulting sentences from drop down menus. [|200 Famous Bardisms] Over 200 of Shakespeare's most famous quotes. Each quote links to information about the play it came from. [|Proper Elizabethan Accents] Pronunciation guide and drills, vocabulary, grammar, forms of address, even insults and cursing and songs of the times, with words of advice from a Renaissance Fair participant. [|The "Punny" Language of Shakespeare] This page offers several strategies for helping students become comfortable with Shakespeare's language. Adobe Reader or compatible application is required for access to the handouts. __ A Wild Goose Chase? __A resource for phrases coined by Shakespeare and a suggestion for introducing them. [|Scrambled Shakespeare] In this online activity, students unscramble letters to form the name of a character from a Shakespearean play.

=The Globe Theatre= [|Virtual Tour] Take a virtual tour of reconstructed The Globe theatre in London. Read about its reconstruction [|here]. [|Shakespeare Resource Centre] A good summary about the Globe Theatre. [|All Shakespeare—Shakespeare's Globe Theatre]: From the All Shakespeare website. This provides a nice nutshell introduction to the theatre, its history, and the people that inhabited it. [|Cambridge History of English and American Literature—William Shakespeare]: From the Bartleby.com website. This is the entry on the Globe Theatre; it also provides information on other theatres of the time, such as The Rose and The Blackfriars. [|Shakespeare's Globe]: This is the official Globe Theatre site, maintained by the Globe itself. Thanks to Ryan Ritter at Shakespeare Globe Centre-USA, Southeast for pointing this one out to me. [|Shakespeare's Globe Theatre]: Rosalind Tedford is a liaison between Wake Forest University and the Globe Theatre. There are some great shots of the Globe here. [|Shakespeare's Globe Theater (eNotes)]: eNotes presents a concise Globe history with a number of illustrations and other resources. [|The Globe Theatre: A Study Guide]: This Cummings Study Guides page dedicated to Shakespeare's Globe presents a good overview on the theater and related topics. [|Shakespeare Globe Centre, USA Research Archive]: A site that has done quite well in presenting the new reconstruction of the Globe.

=The Plays= Accessing the plays online [|Complete Works] [|Open Source Shakespeare] [|60 Second Shakespeare] Fourteen of Shakespeare's plays written in an entertaining news bulletin style. [|Listen to or Watch 60 Second Shakespeare] Video and audio clips created by students from around the globe. Click [|here] to see how your students can upload their 60 Second Shakespeare videos also.

Which Shakespearean character are you? [|Girls' quiz] [|Guys' quiz] =Comedies=

Much Ado About Nothing
[|Playing Shakespeare] This is a fantastic resource that is designed for students and is very appealing to teenagers. It comes with video that talks students through the site and content is contained in the following areas language, character and motivation, themes and ideas, text in performance. Characters are given their own homepage which kind of looks like a facebook or bebo page. Audio quotes from each character can be played. The main themes and ideas are divided in to categories and students can submit their responses.

Histories
=Lesson Ideas and Plans=

[|Rewriting Shakespeare's Epitaph Using Iambic Pentameter] [|Create a Video and Provide Commentary] [|The Play's The Thing] This would make a great little introductory unit for juniors