Shakespeare Resources for Educators

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General Shakespearean Resources

Open Source Shakespeare	Lots of information on Shakespeare's plays including texts, characters, and lots of other useful information.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet	Hosted by Palomar University, this site has a number of excellent references.
Shakespeare.com	This site has study guides, quotes, an encyclopedia, and more.
Shakespeare Oxford Society	Detailed information on the infamous Shakespeare authorship issue.
Bardware	A list of plays, movies, festivals, and more!
Tudor History	The Tudors figure prominently in Shakespeare's plays. This site explains who they are and has family trees.

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For the Classroom

• Shakespeare: Chill with Will - Helping High School Students Learn to Love Shakespeare.  Winners of the ThinkQuest 98 competion Joanne Wang, George van Vliet, and Bernardo Gomez designed and created this site. Its features include sections on the life of Shakespeare, brief quotes, notes and links to several of the plays, a humor section, and a visit to Stratford. Notable is the effort to provide Spanish audio translations for much of the material.

• Tips for introducing the Bard for Home Schoolers, from Barbara Smith.

• Shakespeare's World: Then and Now An Internet WebQuest on William Shakespeare's Neighborhoods. "The Quest: What, in your opinion, caused a middle-class English boy to become one of the world's greatest writers?" A well thought out site for Junior High students created by Hugh Peebles of Chula Vista Junior High School.

• Women in Shakespeare: This site's mission is to present a "short list of critical works that talk about the women in Shakespeare or patriarchal problems in his plays."

• Teaching Shakespeare, from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including lesson plans and a teachers' lounge.  Folger is one of the world's premier publishers of all things Shakespeare.

• Triangulating Shakespeare, an outstanding instructional web site created by Prof. Steven Marx of Cal Poly and his students, introductory, advanced and graduate.

• Yahoo's Shakespeare Lesson Plans: Yahoo has a category for popular Shakespeare lesson plans.
  
• The Shakespearean Homework Helper

• Hamlet Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Sommer Littauer - 12th grade level
  
• Julius Caesar Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Sommer Littauer
  
• Hamlet Teacher's Cyberguide by Kathryn Bayne
  
  
• Studies in Shakespeare, a series of lectures remarkable for its breadth and depth intended for advanced English students: an exceptional gesture by the author in making these essays freely available. Covers a number of specific plays.

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Shop for Materials- Video, Audio, Books

• The BBC video series of the complete works, from Ambrose Videos.
  
• Films for the Humanities and Sciences, with a very nice search engine for locating just the film for which you are looking.
  
• The Arden Shakespeare on the Internet
  
• Octavo is now offering the 1640 edition of Benson's Shakespeare's Poems as part of its digital rare books collection. Their site contains an PDF sample of the work.
  
• Poor Yorick CD and Video Emporium.  Poor Yorick sells over 300 video, cd-rom and audio titles related to the bard, and have "many, many more on the way". 
  
• Shakespeare4Kidz - unique musical adaptations by Julian Chenery, Matt Gimglett & William Shakespeare. Headquartered in Surrey, UK, visits to schools and tours can be arrange or products purchased.
  
• The Shakespeare Video Page.
  
• A Taste Of Shakespeare. From their advertising:  "To lighten the load of teaching or studying Shakespeare's Plays, try A Taste of Shakespeare: the award winning Video Series that - in under an hour for each play - dissolves difficulties with the text, and connects viewers to the characters, story, and themes. "
  
• The Writing Company. A fantastic source for Shakespeare related materials, including books, multimedia, posters and charts, with links to websites and lesson plans.
  
• Cambridge University Press has dozens of books, CDs, and other items for sale.