William Shakespeare

b. Apr 23, c. 1564
d. Apr 23, 1616

British Authors: K-12 TLC Guide Stage & Theater: K-12 TLC Guide

Festivals and Theaters
The Complete Works
Plays, Sonnets

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV
Henry V
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost

MacBeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet

Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timeon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Tragedy Of Anthony And Cleopatra
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

Study Aids Who Wrote Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare	King James I: K-12 TLC Guide. Stage & Theater: K-12 TLC Guide. Absolute Shakespeare. Alabama Shakespeare Festival. All Shakespeare. An Authorship Analysis: Francis Bacon as Shake-speare. Biographies: The Academy of American Poets. Authors' Calendar. Biography.com. Chambers Book of Days. FactMonster. Grose Educational Media. McDougal Littell Inc. The Shakespeare Resource Center. Chao Mugger Essays. Deutsche Welle: London's Globe Theatre Honors Shakespeare's German Connection. *The Elizabethan Review. The Falcon Education Link. The Folger Shakespeare Library: Official Website. Teaching Shakespeare. Shakespeare and the Folger, The Library of Congress. History Channel: April 23: Birth and Death Date of William Shakespeare. 11/28/1582: William Shakespeare Marries Anne Hathaway. 12/26/1606: King Lear* Is Performed at the Court of King James I of England. 05/25/1977: Chinese Remove Ban on Shakespeare*. Is Shakespeare Dead?* by Mark Twain: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia. James I: Internet Shakespeare, University of Victoria. PBS. Last Will and Testament: British National Archives. Lord Chamberlain's Men: Encyclopedia Britannica. Palomar College. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, Palomar College. Marlowe, Christopher: K-12 TLC Guide. National Public Radio: Baseball's Shakespearean Plot. Great Plays & the Burden of Copyright (audio: 7:45). *Kill Shakespeare: Volume I. Oregon's Shakespeare Festival Thrives Despite Economic Downturn. Playwrights in Schools (audio: 17:48). Scholar Says 'Lost' Shakespeare Play Is No Hoax. Shakespeare & the New Millennium (audio: 6:45). Shakespeare's Ancestry (audio: 4:20). Shakespeare's Birthday (audio: 4:00). Tchaikovsky, Meets the Bard. William-Henry Ireland's Great Shakespearean Hoax. PBS: In Search of Shakespeare: Shakespearean Comedy on Film. The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Shakespeare and the Globe, The University of Reading. Shakespeare Illustrated, Emory University. Shakespeare in American Communities. The Shakespeare Magazine. The Shakespeare Mystery, PBS. The Shakespeare Resource Center: The Authorship Debate. Elizabethan England. The Globe. The Language of Shakespeare. Shakespeare Trivia, QueenDom.com. The Shakespeare Theater: The Academy for Classical Acting. Master of Fine Arts for Actors, National Public Radio: 9/1/00 (7:12). Shakespeare Web. The Shakespeare Web: Sir John Geilgud: K-12 TLC Guide. Smithsonian Magazine: Food From the Age of Shakespeare. The Greatest Shakespeare Hoax. Stratford-on-Avon: K-12 TLC Guide. Surfing with the Bard. University of Victoria: Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Web English Teacher. William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama* , A&E Classroom. Writer's Almanac.
William Shakespeare Festivals & Theaters	K-12 TLC Guide to Stage & Theater. Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, AK. The Globe Theatre: AllShakespeare.com. Encyclopedia Britannica: Globe Theatre. Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. The Great Buildings Collection. Old Globe Theater. Shakespeare and the Globe, The University of Reading. Shakespeare's Globe. Shakespeare Resource Center. Virtual Globe Virtual Tour, Clemson University. Illinois Shakespeare Festival Online, Illinois State University: Research. New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Shenandoah Shakespeare. Utah Shakespeare Festival. Vancouver's Bard on the Beach.
William Shakespeare Poetry	Poetry: K-12 TLC Guide. The Complete Works: Bartleby.com. Encarta. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: edHelper. Fact Monster. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: National Public Radio: Did Shakespeare Want to Suppress His Sonnets? The Poetry Archives. Selected Poetry Of William Shakespeare, University of Toronto. "This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth. . .", Indiana DNR Division of Forestry. The Sonnets: Buena Vista University. Collin County Community College District. Organization For Community Networks. Sonnet Central. Sonnet #18: The Academy of American Poets. SparkNotes, Barnes and Noble. Sonnet #25, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #29: Harvard University. Shakespeare Online. Sonnet #37, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #56, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #64, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #65, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #71: SparkNotes. Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #73: San Francisco State University. SparkNotes, Barnes and Noble. University of Toronto. Sonnet #91, Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #98, The Academy of American Poets. Sonnet #116: *The Atlantic. Harvard University. SparkNotes. Writer's Almanac. Sonnet #130: The Academy of American Poets. Shakespeare Online. SparkNotes, Barnes and Noble. Sonnet #138: Harvard University. Shakespeare Online. Western Michigan University. Venus and Adonis: The Academy of American Poets*.
William Shakespeare Study Aids	CollegeTermPapers.com. Cyber Essays. edHelper.
William Shakespeare Who Wrote Shakespeare?	Blue Web'n Applications, SBC. MSNBC. Mysteries of History, U.S. News & World Report. Princeton University. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Urbana City Schools, OH. Bacon, Francis: K-12 TLC Guide: An Authorship Analysis: Francis Bacon as Shake-speare. de Vere, Edward: BBC. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Frontline, PBS. Shakespeare Oxford Society. Herbert, Mary Sidney: Luminarium. Mars Hill College. Marlowe, Christopher: K-12 TLC Guide: Crime Library, Court TV. Greenwich Past: Heritage. Frontline, PBS.
William Shakespeare	Primary: *All the World's a Stage: A Pop-Up Biography, Michael Bender: Amazon.com. Recommendation, PBS Teacher Source. Young Adult: King of Shadows, Susan Cooper. The Shakespeare Stealer, Gary L. Blackwood. Adult: Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Michael Macrone: Author Interview, National Public Radio: 3/17/01 (audio: 2:45). Amazon.com. Lives of Moral Leadership, Robert Coles. So Long as Men Can Breathe, Clinton Heylin: National Public Radio. Amazon.com*.
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 01/05: Twelfth Night. 04/23: World Book and Copyright Day: Shakespeare v. Cervantes.
	See the K-12 TLC Guides for Individual Plays for play-specific lesson plans. edHelper. Surfing with the Bard: Creating a Classic Comic Book, Michael Cremonini. An Introduction to Status, Amy Ulen. Dropping-in a Line, Amy Ulen. Isolate One Plot Line, Michael Cremonini. Status Games, Mark Sheppard. Telling the Story, Mark Sheppard. Teaching Shakespeare, The Folger Shakespeare Library: Bill's Allusive Nature: Introducing Shakespeare, Jim Curran, East High School, AK. A Boxful of Character, Linda G. Wolford, School District 5, SC. "Divinity of hell!": Soliloquies & Computers, Janet Field-Pickering. How to Review Without Really Trying, Maryann Jessop Lacey, Township High School, NJ. Jottings from Any Shakespearean Character, Deborah A. Joy, Northwest High School, MO. Mapping Shakespeare, Paul E. Clark Springdale High School. "Say you will be mine", Sue Biondo-Hench, Carlisle Senior High School, PA. Scatterbrained Soliloquies, Russ Bartlett, Rutgers Preparatory School, NJ. Shakespeare Wall, Charles West, Fresno Continuation High School, CA. Stereotypes: Are They a Perfect Fit?, Maryann Jessop Lacey, Township High School, NJ. Words, Words, Words, Tom Fitzgerald, Ranum High School, CO. Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Stand Up: a WebQuest, Ralph A. Bucci, Coral Glades High School, FL.

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This guide last edited 02/14/2012
This guide last revised 03/18/2009