Links to Shakespeare sites

by Loz Flowers

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  http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/macbeth.pdf
   Summary and commentary, prereading, analysis and followup, extended learning options, bibliography. This document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access. 

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare This interactive unit will help students visualize Scotland. Google Earth must be on your computer for this to work; the free version will do.

• Macbeth @Web English Teacher Literature lesson plans and teaching strategies for Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth”. Many links and resources.

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  http://help4teachers.com/LydiaMacbeth.htm
   A variety of post-reading activities. Some projects address multiple intelligences.

• Macbeth Plot summary, themes, discussion of witchcraft, essay topics, more.

• ClassZone.com-Novel guides. Macbeth Theme: Lust for Power Can Lead to Loss of Humanity. Summary, theme openers, cross curricular activities, research assignments from McDougal Littel.

• Shakespeare Searched. This is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. “We cluster search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for”.

• Shakespeare Online Great for all things Shakespeare. Analysis of plays and poems and a biography of his life is included.

• BBC – Drama – 60 Second Shakespeare – Homepage NOTE: The page is no longer updated but is still useful. Create your own interpretation of Shakespeare in one minute – make a film or audio, take a scene or whole play – keep it classic or make it modern, it’s up to you. It also has links to other resources on Shakespeare, including newspaper articles telling shakespeare’s stories…

• Folger Shakespeare Library Lesson plans, podcasts, and research for Shakespeare (with the emphasis on the 9 plays most frequently taught in schools). Folger is the home to one of the the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

• William Shakespeare in quarto: view 21 of Shakespeare’s plays online  From the British Library Collection. View and compare 93 copies of digitized versions of all 21 of Shakespeare’s plays that were published in quarto before 1642. Includes timeline, scholary essays, and background information on Shakespeare’s life, theater, and other works.

• Shakespeare Resource Center – Shakespeare’s Biography Created by US teachers as part of an introduction to Shakespearean drama. It is a “presentation” of information about England, Shakespeare, and theaters. This site provides background on all those things.

• Shakespeare @Web English Teacher 

• Shakespeare Authorship The Shakespeare Authorship Pag. Dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. An intriguing site with an easily accessible collection of essays on Shakespeare, his life, and why it was definitely Shakespeare that wrote Shakespeare. Reading these articles may be a great way to begin a class discussion on who Shakespeare was, and perhaps could be the stimulus for a short debate over whether or not Shakespeare did write Shakespeare.

• Stratford – Shakespeare Information on the life of Shakespeare, where he grew up and some of the basic details on his education, family and marriage. Provides links to the theatre and to some background information on Stratford.

• In Search of Shakespeare . Teaching Shakespeare with Technology | PBS 

• Internet Shakespeare Editions 

• Audio and Video Resources-Folger Shakespeare Library 

• Media Infusion . Mashups, Remixes, and Web 2.0: Playing Fast and Loose with Shakespeare | PBS  Offers great ideas for using web 2.0 tools to help understand and share one’s understanding of Shakespeare

• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London This site gives information about the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London, details of forthcoming productions, and an outline of educational activities and exhibits at the Globe

• Absolute Shakespeare – plays, quotes, summaries, essays… Claims to be the essential resource for William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the Globe Theatre

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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