TEACHING RESOURCES.
From text books and online resources to interactive apps and downloadable productions
Teach Shakespeare
Completely free to use, Teach Shakespeare lets you find, use, and keep hundreds of Globe digital resources.
Designed to make lesson planning easy and innovative, you can access the site from anywhere to build your schemes of work for 11-18 year olds.
Search the free database by play, resource type, or teaching level, and access dynamic, relevant resources from Shakespeare’s Globe. Save your favourites and organise these into handy personalised folders. You can also share these with your colleagues, edit and make notes on the go.
Discover MoreDiscover
Spark your curiousity and explore the history of the Globe Theatre in the Discover pages of our website. Find out about Shakespeare’s world, the story of the Globe, take a peek backstage and listen to blogs and media resources about our productions.
Discover MorePlayground
An online playground where primary schools pupils can explore Shakespeare. A range of interactive resources allowing pupils to watch, read, make and play as they connect with Shakespeare’s plays, themes and characters.
Discover MoreShakespeare's Globe 360
Download the Shakespeare’s Globe 360 app to experience Shakespeare’s Globe as never before.
Packed with interesting facts, videos and photos; the free app allows anyone in the world to explore a virtual version of the world’s most iconic theatre.
Users can move around the virtual theatre, zoom in and out and reveal the oak frame. Venture through the oak doors and head inside, where you can explore the theatre as stunning 360-degree images.
Tilt and move your device to look around. The technology in the app uses the in built camera in your iPhone or iPad. Pointing it at a marker prompts the Globe theatre to appear on your screen.
The app is free, and contains an optional in app purchase.
Shorter Shakespeare
Take your students straight to the heart of Shakespeare’s plays; their confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plots, themes and Shakespeare’s language, which is supported throughout these abridged play texts from Learn Playing Shakespeare productions.
Current plays in the series include: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night.
These books will enable your students to:
Engage with the whole story through reduced length plays that preserve the intricacies of plot and sub plots
Build understanding of Shakespeare’s language through glossaries and focused activities
Form personal responses to Shakespeare’s plays with images and questions on context, character and themes
Lay the foundation for GCSE success with assessment objective focused activities.
Textbooks for classroom study
Text books for individual plays designed for teaching key stages 3 – 4. The series offers active theatre-based approaches to understanding the play and resources that enable students to engage with language and key themes. The series:
- Includes easy-to-use resources with activities directly opposite the text and a clear glossary
- Offers active approaches to help students understand characterisation, themes and language
- Provides actors’ viewpoints from a range of productions that introduce students to differing interpretations of the play
- Contains Examiner’s Notes to prepare students for success in controlled assessment and examinations (covering each Awarding Body)
Globe Player
Wherever you are in the world, you can access hundreds of previous Globe productions to play in your classroom via Bloomsbury publishing’s schools portal to Globe Player.
Bring Shakespeare alive for your students through watching and discussing multiple interpretations of scenes, or watch entire plays to introduce your classes to themes, characters and structure in Shakespeare’s canon.
From Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night to Michelle Terry as Hamlet, there’s a play to capture the imagination of every student on our Globe Player site.