This lesson sensitizes students to the similarities and differences between cultures by comparing Shakespearean and Bunraku/Kabuki dramas. The focus of this comparison is the complex nature of revenge explored in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Chushingura, or the Treasury of the Loyal Retainers.

This art history video discussion examines William Holman Hunt's "Claudio and Isabella", 1850, oil on mahogany (Tate Britain). From William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Act III, scene 1 (a room in a prison).

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Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing a variety of information about him and his work.

This resource is an introduction to William ShakespeareŐs tragic play, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", through the study of universal themes using multiple-perspective investigations of betrayal scenarios.

Legends of Shakespeare's stories. Source of Macbeth with links to Holinshed's book and other source material.

The full-text of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, as it appears in The Oxford Shakespeare.

The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.

This study guide is intended for university and AP students as well as the general reader studying Shakespeare's history play, Henry IV, Part I.

For more than 400 years, Shakespeare's 37 surviving plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been read, performed, taught, reinterpreted, and enjoyed the world over. This Teacher's Guide includes ideas for bringing the Bard and pop culture together, along with how performers around the world have infused their respective local histories and cultures into these works.

Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site offers a concordance which allows users to trace all uses Shakespeare made of any particular word. Users can also view sonnets individually, or choose any two to examine side by side.

Explore this comprehensive site featuring lesson plans about Shakespeare's plays and life in Elizabethan England.

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We will analyze the structure of a sentence from "After 450 Years, We Still Don't Know the True Value of Shakespeare" to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.

Students read Act II of Romeo and Juliet and deepen their understanding about characters and themes in the play by examining Shakespeare's use of images.

Discover major events in William Shakespeare's life through The Intersection of Art and Life, an interactive timeline. The timeline spans from Shakespeare's birth in 1564 to the post-mortem publication of his First Folio in 1624. Explore the impact of personal events on the poet and playwright's masterpieces and watch segments from film adaptations of his plays.

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: Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure. The Series 2 resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello. The resources for the first series: Macbeth, the comedies Twelfth Night and As You Like It, Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, Hamlet and The Tempest. This collection includes: Video (104), Lesson Plan (31), Media Gallery (100), Document (4) for Grades 9-12, 6-8, 3-5.

Shakespeare is not just for one type of actor or audience member. In the clip [0:43] "Bringing Myself to Shakespeare" from the American Masters film Raul Julia: The World's a Stage, Raul Julia explores what it means to bring his own voice, culture, and experiences to Shakespeare. The second video, "All the World's a Stage," [1:28] features prominent actors such as Rita Moreno and Andy Garcia performing a compilation of the film's titular monologue from Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. The accompanying Activity encourages students to bring their own voices to the same monologue, in an arts-based activity that invites creative expression. Teaching materials are included.

What if Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was set in a modern and newly independent nation? What do citizens look for in a leader? In this lesson, students not only consider the significance of this updated staging and political quandary, but will address important questions about how and why Shakespeare is adopted, adapted, and appropriated by people around the world in order for them to express their own political and social concerns through the universal language of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.

Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.