LESSON PLANS AND TIMES MATERIALS FOR TEACHING SHAKESPEARE:
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lessons are for grades 6-12, written in consultation with Bank Street College of Education.
a Shakespeare crossword puzzle
and other resources on the Web.
A Theater Curriculum Guide for Use With Any Day's New York Times
A Tale Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying . . . Everything?
Finding Shakespeare in Today's World
To Freeze or Not to Freeze
Frozen Tableux Based on Shakespeare
The Play's The Thing
A Lesson for the Drama Classroom
Making the Old New Again
Creating Modern Scenes in Not-So-Modern Literature
The Bard in the Big Apple
Setting Shakespeare in the Modern World
Personal Experiences With Literature
Every Picture Tells a Story
Paintings as Windows to Society
Shakespeare in the Park
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Modern Elizabethan
Op-ed on how "Shakespeare [is] elemental, formative, fateful", by Lorrie Moore.
A Few Questions, Mr. Shakespeare
Selected questions and answers on Shakespeare from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Article by scholar Stephen Greenblatt addressing the question, "How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare?"
Results of a survey of professors about the Shakespeare authorship question.
Ravished by Shakespeare
Review of book about the pleasures of Shakespeare's works and contemporary Shakespeare studies.
All the World's a Stage, Ruled by Guess Who: Why Shakespeare Resonates With the Modern Age
After Four Centuries, Still Gaining Devotees
Articles on the enduring popularity of Shakespeare.
ROMEO AND JULIET
Our City/Nuestra Ciudad
Working with a New Version of "West Side Story" in the English Literature or Spanish-Language Classroom
All You Need Is Love
Learning About Famous Couples Through History
I Am Seventeen Going On ...
Creating Podcasts to Examine Adolescence Through the Ages
Suicides and Suicide Attempts
'Dear Juliet': Seeking Succor From a Veteran of Love
Dear Juliet: Let Me Tell You About My Problem
Articles about letters received in Verona addressed to Juliet, the former with a slideshow of letters.
Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia
Article about a documentary on a young Serbian man and his love for a Muslim girl.
Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
Article on adolescent love.
Untying the Knot
Discussing the Reasons behind Current Marriage and Divorce Trends
On Human Behavior
Investigating and Updating a Major Psychological Study
When 'Macbeth' Shook the World of Astor Place
Article on the Astor Place riots over dueling "Macbeth" productions.
Toil and Trouble
Maureen Dowd column comparing a Senate hearing on Iraq to "Macbeth."
The Heart's Ambition
Article by a college graduate on morality and ambition.
Historians and Scholars Produce New Picture of Witches and Witch Hunts, but Questions Remain
Article on witchcraft.
Is This Your Brain on Drugs?
Treating Teen Depression
Creating Compassionate Communities
Getting Inside Grief by Writing From Multiple Perspectives
Mental Health and Disorders
Suicides and Suicide Attempts
Payback Time: Why Revenge Tastes So Sweet
Article on the urge to seek revenge.
Vengeance Is Whose?
Freakonomics blog post on the factors that propel vengeance.
Calculating Economics of an Eye for an Eye
Article on economic causes of vengeful behavior.
Psychologist's Expert Testimony Called Unscientific
Article on the difficulty of discerning real from feigned mental illness.
A Live Wire to the Brain: Hooking Up 'Hamlet'
Article by Michael Almereyda, director of the 2000 modern film adaptation of "Hamlet."
Spoiled Rotten in Denmark
Review of John Updike's 2000 novel "Gertrude and Claudius."
Ophelia Fights Back
Review of a book that "challenges the general view about the attitudes of adolescent girls."
Life Through the Eyes of Teenage Girls
Article on "Ophelia Speaks," a collection of essays by teen girls.
That's Moor Like It!
An Experience in Modernizing Shakespeare's "Othello"
A Rose By Any Other Name?
Defining and Confronting Stereotypes
Exploring Views on Race in America Today
Is All Fair in War?
Exploring Race in the United States Military
Exploring Women's Roles and Rights Around the World
"How Race is Lived in America" News Special
Articles and lesson plans from The Times' award-winning "How Race Is Lived in America" series.
Jealousy Led Bonds to Steroids, Authors Say
Article on a book about Barry Bonds's jealousy of and obsession with Mark McGwire, parallelling the relationship between Iago and Othello.
Review of book "The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex."
Black-White Marriages Rise, But Couples Still Face Scorn
Article on statistics about and attitudes toward interracial marriages in the U.S.
Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love … and Racism
Article on the history of attitudes toward interracial relationships in the U.S.
Taking Marriage Private
Op-ed on the history of religious and legal sanctioning of marriages.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
The Meaning of Dreams
Understanding the Scientific Methods Used in Dream Research
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Examining the Physiological and Psychological Causes and Meanings of Dreams
Magic and Magicians
Trivia Quiz: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
An eight-question, interactive "noodle nudger."
Love Potion No. 9
Review of book "Why We Love," with focus on the concept and chemistry of love potions.
OTHER RESOURCES ON THE WEB
A wide range of information about Shakespeare and his works.
Information about the playwright, his plays and sonnets, the Globe Theater, and much more.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
A listing of Shakespeare resources online, with a focus on the folios.
The Oxford Shakespeare
Searchable full-text plays from Project Bartleby.
Shakespeare Resource Center
A catalog of information about Shakespeare, Elizabethean England and more.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The official site of the Folger library, offering materials for scholars, teachers, students and other readers of the Bard.
Provides nineteenth-century paintings of scenes from many of the plays, as well as scholarly information about each painting.
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