The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.

Students compare attending a performance at The Globe Theater with attending a modern theater production or movie. They then create a commercial for an Elizabethan audience promoting a modern product.

Actor Kevin Hardesty performs the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Act III, Scene I of the Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

This video presents viewers with an explanation of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing.

Click on a scene to read that part of the Shakespearean comedy, As You Like It. This full text of As You Like It was taken from The Oxford Shakespeare.

Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online sources.

These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links for extended reading, and activities.

This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Hamlet - from ideas on mortality and revenge to traveling players, melancholy, and madness. It will help you make thoughtful connections between the play and the contexts in which it was written, performed, and interpreted. Included are ideas for activities and a PDF with related information.

In these activities, students will conduct a close linguistic exploration of the Romeo and Juliet text, which considers the central and deadly role that words play in the lovers' fate. They will also engage in broader tasks that contextualize the play in terms of its relationship to its main source, Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, and the fashion for sonnet writing in the 1590s. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, a compare/contrast chart, and activities.

Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and vivid contextual sources, there are illustrated articles, short videos, and teaching resources on a huge range of literary texts.

Here is Shakespeare's comedy, The Comedy of Errors, as it appeares in The Oxford Shakespeare. Choose the scene you want to read.

This website from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the complete text of the Shakespearean comedy, "As You Like It," all on one page.

The complete text of William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes, or view the entire play in one page.

The complete e-text of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" divided by acts and scenes is available for free from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. With links to other Shakespeare plays.

Read the entire play of "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare in a large font, easy to read format. With links to other Shakespearean plays.

This site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contains the complete text of Shakespeare's comedy "Love's Labour's Lost."

Full text of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." You can view scenes individually or view the whole text on a single page.