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Oberon, Titania and Puck by William Blake, c.1785

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4198/puck.html

A Midsummer

Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

 

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Author Biographies

 

http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=3298

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_shakespeare.html

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo3.asp#backgroundinformation 

 

   
Background Information

 

Shakespeare’s Virtual Field Trip: http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/Svtour.html

Language/Glossaries:

     http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/langchan2.txt

     http://www.theplays.org/glossary.html

     http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/Shakespeare/glossary.html 

Shakespearean Theater:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/shakespearean_theater.html

Globe Theater: http://ns2.d20.co.edu/kadets/shakespeare/txt/INT3.txt

Literary/Historical Background:

    http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo4.asp

          #historicalbackground

     http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=699&section=1

Shakespeare Pictures: http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/

Bard Facts: http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/facts/facts.htm

Shakespearean Landmarks: http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/wssites.html  

Literary Terms:

     http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/shakespeare/Literary.Terms.Menu.html

The Beatles and the Bard: http://ns2.d20.co.edu/kadets/shakespeare/txt/LANG1.txt

Shakespeare Biography Quiz: http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/quiz/bioquiz.htm

Shakespeare’s Dentist: http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/dentist.txt

Elizabethan Fashion: http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/36.html

Did You Know? http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=699&section=4

 

   
Lesson Plans and Activities

 

Book-A-Minute: http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.midsummer.shtml

Plot Summaries:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/midsummernight/fullsummary.html

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/SUM.htm

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMidsummer05.asp

Characters:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/midsummernight/charlist.html

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/CHR.htm

     http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/canalysis.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMidsummer03.asp  

Puck: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4198/puck.html

Objects/Places: http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/OBJ.htm

Quotes:

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/QUO.htm

     http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/quotes.html

Theme:

     http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/themes.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMidsummer07.asp

Key Facts: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/facts.html

Questions:

     http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/study.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMidsummer33.asp

     http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/mnd.html

Quizzes:

     http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/quiz/bioquiz.htm

     http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/quiz.html

Conflict: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMidsummer04.asp

Writing Topics: http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=699&section=3

Teaching Guides:

     http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/Lesson22/ending.html

     http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/midsummer_nights_dream.pdf

     http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/gcse/mnd.htm

     http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/academic/resources/guides/

          shakamid/frame.htm

Folger Teaching Guides:

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=222

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=167

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=196

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=144

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=156

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=141

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=177

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=197

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=159

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=154

     http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=164

Characterization: http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/teachers/lessons/intro.html 

Language: http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/Lesson22/language.html

Structure and Meaning:

     http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/Lesson22/structure.html

Ending of the Play:

     http://nauvoo.byu.edu/TheArts/Theater/studypackets/Lesson22/ending.htm

Projects: http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/teachers/lessons/intro.html