Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Hamlet is a necessary read for high school students. It opens up many mysteries into what it means to be human that your classes should explore. Our Literary Touchstone Classics are unabridged, complete texts, and come with unbelievable prices. Each book is a value-priced, high-quality…

Introduce your students to Shakespeare's rhetoric and spark engaging classroom discussions using engaging, standards-based PowerPresentations. Within each title-specific presentation, over 25 rhetorical devices are defined and illustrated with one or more quotations, highlighting both their function…

Shakespeare: The World as Stage is a biography of the renowned William Shakespeare. The man of many words and stories left little to be certain about his own life, but Bill Bryson sorts through the assumptions and paints a portrait of the brilliant playwright. Your students will enjoy meeting the…

…construction ensures these editions hold up to heavy, repeated use. Strategies for understanding Shakespeare — Each Shakespeare edition contains line numbers, margin notes, and a guide to understanding Shakespeare's language, as well as key strategies for getting the most from the plays.

…Your students will benefit from: * Reading pointers highlighting themes and providing background;* Line numbers and sidebar notes in every Shakespeare play;* A glossary defining difficult vocabulary and allusions;* Prices so low that students can annotate their own books. Sturdy bindings, premium…

…slides allow your students to explore examples of Shakespeare's most popular plays and sonnets, as well as materials covering the Bard's life in Elizabethan England and the Globe theatre. Along with several approaches to understanding Shakespeare's language, this PowerPoint also boasts a fully…

Lead-Ins to Literature: Hamlet is a dynamic and exciting way to prepare your students for a reading of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. These colorful, illustrated presentations use the latest features of the free Adobe Acrobat format to make compelling presentations easy to use on any computer. Each…

Fairies, love spells, and mischief are all at the center of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Show your students how enjoyable studying A Midsummer Night's Dream can be with the A Midsummer Night's Dream Prestwick House Activity Pack. This title-specific, reproducible Activity Pack contains…

Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the rock band The Who described studying Shakespeare in school as like having a tooth pulled. As star of Shakespeare's shortest play, he makes the viewer's experience far more pleasurable. In a perfect plot for the screen, twin sons whose servants are also twins must…

Here's a gift-boxed set of the BBC Time-Life Video production of Shakespeare's five most-taught tragedies on DVD: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. If you want to begin building your library on a limited budget, here's where you should begin.

…Halloween to January 6, Elizabethan Christians celebrated a season of trickery, in which normal patterns and conventions were turned upside down. Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night to mark the last night of this season, and, accordingly, it includes cross-dressing, practical jokes, multiple cases of…

As You Like It is Shakespeare's story of two noblewomen who flee to a forest filled with magic. The Teaching Unit for As You Like It gives you a comprehensive academic framework that saves you hours of prep work. You can rely on this well-researched unit as a strong base for your lesson plan —…