Teaching drama can mean the careful reading of text as well as studying stage and film productions. You’ll find resources for both types of study here.
There are several online sources promising full-text access to Shakespeare’s plays and contextual materials. Here are the best ones, with a few highlights.
Read Shakespeare’s plays for free from the Folger Shakespeare Library! Full texts, summaries, illustrations, guides for reading, plus more about Shakespeare’s language, life, and the world he knew.
Anti-Racist Shakespeare is a series of free webinars that brings together scholars and artists of colour from a wide variety of backgrounds to examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice. We encourage everyone – audience members, theatre professionals, students, teachers and scholars – to add their critical voice by attending and asking questions.
Read Shakespeare’s , Shakespeare’s Theater for free from the Folger Shakespeare Library! Full text, summaries, illustrations, guides for reading, and more.
Shakespeare’s most iconic work. HAMLET is the ultimate play about loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Every production is defined by its lead actor….
Shakespeare’s King Lear,James Earl Jones Paul SorvinoRené AuberjonoisDir. Edwin Sherin 1974Filmed in 1974 before a live audience in Central Park for the New …
JAMES EARL JONES’S KING LEAR
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