Shakespeare Classroom Resources

Those of us who teach Shakespeare can easily be overwhelmed by the — literally — millions of online resources on Shakespeare. You don’t have to spend hours clicking around looking for the best ones, because we already did it for you.

First, the plays:

Now the background information to help place Shakespeare in time and space:

Some things people think about Shakespeare:

When it comes to video, you can probably find a film of any scene you might want to show in class. Go to YouTube and search for the specific scene, or for conversations between characters (“Othello and Iago” for example) to avoid having to wade through too many options.

We also want to point out a couple of general introductory videos about Shakespeare that should pique students’ interest at the beginning of the study:

This is a wonderful time to be studying Shakespeare!

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3 Comments

  1. Your “Shakespeare in Statistics” graphic is fun and eminently printable, however “37 plays and 154 works that we know of” is incorrect. 37 plays, 154 sonnets, 6 narrative poems.

  2. Your “Shakespeare in Statistics” graphic is fun and eminently printable, however “37 plays and 154 works that we know of” is incorrect. 37 plays, 154 sonnets, 6 narrative poems.

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