Quotable Holofernes:
Satis quid sufficit. (LLL, V i 1)

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. (V i 16-17)

The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and measurable for the afternoon. (V i 81-82)

Evans: I pray you, have your remembrance, child: 'accusativo, hung, hang, hog.'
Quickly: 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. (Merry Wives, IV i 40-41)

For a great way to keep up to date on what is being done in education over the Internet, visit the World Lecture Hall. It is conveniently organized by discipline.

• The ASL Shakespeare Project dedicated to Shakespeare in American Sign Language.  It features clips from the ASL translation of Twelfth Night in flash video as well as essays about Shakespeare's life and career, theater in London, lesson plans for teachers, and image galleries.

• Dr. Richard Regan's site   (Fairfield University) which uses the web to teach Shakespeare.

• High School Teacher's Cyberguides - Lesson Plans and related links for teaching Shakespeare to High School students.

  • Hamlet Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Sommer Littauer - 12th grade level
    materials - requires frames.

  • Julius Caesar Teacher's Guide and Student Activities by Joel Sommer Littauer.

  • Hamlet Teacher's Cyberguide by Kathryn Bayne.

• Johnston, Ian.  English 366: 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. Contents  include:

• Introduction to English 366 and Shakespeare's Works
• The Foxes, The Lion, and the Fat Knight: Introduction to Henry IV, Part 1

• The Ironies of Success in Politics: An Introduction to Henry V

• Variations on a Theme of Love in As You Like It
• An Introduction to Hamlet
• Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear
• An Introduction to Macbeth
• You Can Go Home Again, Can't You? Shakespeare's Tempest

• Chatterers and Activists: Observations on Richard II

• Observations on Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry

• The Transformation of Tragedy: An Introduction to Richard III

• The Triumph of the Lions? An Introduction to Antony and Cleopatra
• Critical Approaches to Shakespeare: Some Initial Observations
• Historical Background to Shakespeare's History Cycles
• A Note on Shakespeare's Sonnets
• On Scholarship and Literary Interpretation: An Introductory Note
   

• A Lesson Plan for teaching Macbeth, by Philip Gardner.

• Michael Best's Shakespeare By Individual Studies page is the gateway to a marvelous collection of resources. Highly recommended. 

• 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 (requires Real Player and Windows 98). Very well done, though heavy on slick effects which will limit its availability on older browsers.

• 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.

• Courtesy of Catherine Eskin of the NTNU/Engelsk Institutt, Shakespearean World Trondheim Style, containing a bibliography on Women in Shakespeare.

• Teaching Shakespeare , from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including lesson plans and a teachers' lounge. 

• The Teacher Cyberguide to Hamlet from the San Diego County Office of Education.

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

• Webster, John.  Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio.  Very thorough and interesting.  Carnegie Chronicle, May, 1999.

• "You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  A plan for the study of Romeo and Juliet from Edsitement, sponsored by the NEH.

• A course on Shakespeare from MITOpenCourseWare, originally taught in Spring, 2004.

• The BBC video series of the complete works, from Ambrose Videos.

• Digital Resources for Teaching and Discussion.  Materials for teaching Shakespeare freely available from the English Subject Centre of the University of Glasgow; a Case Study of the MA in Shakespeare Studies entitled Text and Playhouse that is jointly taught by the King’s College London and the Globe Theatre; and a set of Completed Projects.

• Hamlet on the Ramparts.  "A public website designed and maintained by the MIT Shakespeare Project in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library and other institutions. [The site] aims to provide free access to an evolving collection of texts, images, and film relevant to Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost."

• HamletWorks.org "offers deep levels of information on Hamlet and related works for scholars, students, theater practitioners, and fans."

• Octavo is now offering the First Folio.

• Penguin Teachers' Guides to:

  • Julius Caesar
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Othello
  • Richard III
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The Tempest
     

• 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.

• Surfing the Net with Kids: Barbara Feldman's recommendations for the educationally best sites to visit with kids.

• 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."

• Teaching Materials from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

• The Writing Company. A fantastic source for Shakespeare related materials, including books, multimedia, posters and charts, with links to websites and lesson plans.

• A Writing Assignment by Dr. Brenda Walton on The Great Chain of Being and Dr. Faustus.

• From PBS Teachers, Thematic Teaching: Shakespeare & The Renaissance, including modules from grades 3-5 to grades 9-12.

• Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb (1806) and Tales From Shakespeare, by Winston Stokes, where he amends the Lambs' works with other plays, 1911, from Google Book Search, full text and PDF.

• Quiller-Courch, Arthur Thomas, Historical Tales from Shakespeare, 1910, from the Internet Archive.

• Morris, Harrison, Tales from Shakespeare, 1895, from Google Book Search, full text and PDF.

• Nesbit, Edith, The Children's Shakespeare, 1900, from Google Book Search, full text and PDF.

• Classical Comics, publishers of a forthcoming (November, 2007) series of graphical novels featuring "original text," "plain text," and "quick text" versions of the play using the same art work.  See my review of the forthcoming Henry V.

• ShakespeareKids, an outreach from the University of Texas Shakespeare at Winedale, a well desinged Flash/HTML site with a focus on performance and doing it yourself in the K-8 environment.

• The British Shakespeare Association.

• European Shakespeare Research Association

• The German Shakespeare Society.

• The Melbourne Shakespeaere Society.

• The Open University Shakespeare Society.

• The Shakespeare Association of America.

• The Shakespeare Foundation of Spain.

• Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries.

• The Shakespeare Society of Japan.

• The Shakespeare Society (New York).

• The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa.

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