William Shakespeare Project

You might want to include (click on the text for further information)

• A contents page

• Shakespeare�s biography � key events in Shakespeare�s life

• Shakespeare�s works � his plays, poems and other works � the stories behind his plays

• Shakespeare�s times � when he lived and what the world was like in those days, who was on the throne, what influenced his plays and how people responded to them

• The theatre � what the theatre was like in Shakespeare�s times � how play-watching developed

• Some of your own ideas

• Bibliography � a list of websites, books and other documents used to find out your information.  There are lots of ideas down the sides of this webpage

The DVD -Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (PG)- animates 12 plays each lasting 30 minutes (scroll for list of those included):

     

1. Romeo & Juliet
2. Twelfth Night
3. The Tempest
4. A Midsummer's Nights Dream
5. Richard III
6. Othello
7. The Taming Of The Shrew
8. Macbeth
9. A Winter's Tale
10. As You Like It
11. Hamlet
12. Julius Caesar

 

Recommended Resources

• Don't forget -  full texts of All Shakespeare's plays are available for free download on this site. 

• In the right-hand margin are details of helpful videos to quickly get the gist of the listed plays

Contents Page:

• Do this at the end!

• If not too long you might like to just list your titles and page numbers.

• Or try the automatic table of contents in word using the following steps:

Decide which are your main headings and give them a heading style (FORMAT-STYLE-Click on Heading 1 in window at right-hand side)

 Decide if you want to list any of your subheadings in the table of contents.  If so, give them  a heading too in the same way (Choose Heading 2 if it is a first-level subheading or you could use Heading 3 for further levels of subheadings)

Create the table of contents (INSERT-REFERENCE-INDEX AND TABLES).  Select the Table of Contents Tab and then OK.

That simple!

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Shakespeare�s Biography:

You might like to include:

• His full name

• When and where he was born

• Places he lived

• What his parents did

• What his childhood was like

• What jobs he had

• Details of any wife or children

• When he started writing

• Different types of writings that he produced

• His path to fame

• His later years

• When he died and his age when he died

• What people of the time thought of him

• Any other facts you have found out.

• Any myths surrounding his life and times.

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Shakespeare�s Works:

You might like to include:

• Types of writing � plays, sonnets, ..

• How many works Shakespeare produced

• How the plays can be grouped � historical, comedy, tragedy � and a description of each style of play

• Some detail about a particular play from each group

• How his works were received at the time

• What people think of Shakespeare�s work nowadays.

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Shakespeare�s Times:

You might like to include:

• How people lived

• People�s life expectancy

• Who was on the throne

• What people believed in those days.

• Law and order at those times

• What did people do for entertainment?

• How many children did the average family have?

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Shakespeare�s Theatre:

A diagram of the theatre may help with the presentation of this section.

You might like to include

• How travelling actors used to perform plays.

• When the globe theatre was built

• How was the globe theatre organised � where different classes of people sat

• Women�s roles in plays

• Use of music, props and costumes

• How much it cost to go to the theatre

• What other types of entertainment people enjoyed

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Other ideas:
Make your work fun by including one or two of the following :       

• A Shakespeare crossword, word search or other puzzle        

• A list of common sayings that come from Shakespeare        

• A quiz based on the information you put in your project  

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