SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
…Answers: Shakespeare in love? Totally fiction?; Wikipedia article on “Shakespeare in Love”; and See also, DiMatteo, Anthony, The Use and Abuse of Shakespeare: A Review Essay College Literature – 31.2,…
LOOKING FOR RICHARD
…Shakespeare uses rhythm in the service of meaning and beauty. Note that the word “glorious” should be pronounced as having only two syllables and “alarums” was pronounced in Shakespeare’s time…
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
…two films or of Shakespeare Retold with the play will provide students with an interesting and entertaining insight into the differences between current society and the England of Shakespeare. MINOR….
HAMLET
…are many other theories to explain Hamlet’s inaction and action. 17. In this play, what is Shakespeare telling us about revenge? Suggested Response: Shakespeare was instructing us that we cannot…
ROMEO AND JULIET
…out: “I am fortune’s fool.” What does Shakespeare intend to convey with these words? Suggested Response: Shakespeare is telling us that by giving in to raw instincts for revenge, Romeo…
SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS
…such as education, training in a trade, or work-release, etc.] ShakespeareBehindBars.org; the official website for the film; Up Dates on the Status of the Cast; ShakespeareBehindBars.com; this site has an…
TWELFTH NIGHT
…can be found at TWM’s guide to Movies as Literature Homework Project. This is an accessible and entertaining version of Shakespeare’s comedy of love, mistaken identity, and confused gender. Moved…
JULIUS CAESAR
…of Shakespeare’s classic play of political intrigue, assassination, and civil war in Ancient Rome. Selected Awards: 1953 Academy Awards: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (B & W), 1953 British Academy Awards:…
MACBETH
…teachers looking to supplement classes on Shakespeare’s style and thematic structure review “Looking for Richard“, Al Pacino’s study of how he and his fellow actors created a performance of Shakespeare’s…
STAGE BEAUTY
…still loves and who still loves him. Desdemona’s death scene contains some of Shakespeare’s best writing. In Shakespeare’s time, women were not allowed to act in theaters; female roles were…
April
…Juliet Using a Clip from Shakespeare in Love (Drama; World/England) [12+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Drama and U.S./The Law; SEL Redemption; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [14+] Stage Beauty Snippet Lesson Plan A…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Eighteen Years (and up)
…Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Clip from Shakespeare in Love — a Snippet Lesson Plan (Drama; World/England) [12+] The Shootist (U.S./1865 – 1913; Literature/Myths of the Western Genre;…
ALPHABETICAL INDEX FOR THE LETTER “S”
…Lesson Plan Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Clip from Shakespeare in Love (Drama; World/England) [12+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Drama and U.S./The Law; SEL Redemption; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [14+]…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Fourteen Years
…SEL Redemption; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [14+] Shakespeare in Love Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Clip from Shakespeare in Love — a Snippet Lesson Plan (Drama; World/England) [12+] Shiloh…
FILMS LISTED BY APPROPRIATE AGE: Fifteen-Seventeen Years
…Responsibility) [14+] Shakespeare in Love Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Clip from Shakespeare in Love — a Snippet Lesson Plan (Drama; World/England) [12+] Shiloh (U.S./1945 – 1991 &…
Redemption
…Subjects: U.S./1629 – 1750 & Massachusetts; Religions/Christianity; Literature/U.S.) [12+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Redemption; Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility; Subjects: Drama and U.S./The Law) [14+] A Tale of Two Cities (Alcohol and Drug…
SUBJECT MATTER: DRAMA (STAGE)
…Caring) [12+] SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (Drama and U.S./The Law; SEL Redemption; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [13+] SHAKESPEAR IN LOVE Snippet Lesson Plan For “Shakespeare in Love”: An Introduction to Romeo and…
COMEDY INDEX
…Satire; SEL: Romantic Relationships; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness) [13+] MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Shakespeare — (Drama/England; SEL: Romantic Relationships; Brothers; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness; Fairness) [10+] ROXANNE Social Satire — (Drama; ELA:…
THE BEST OF TWM: DRAMA FOR HIGH SCHOOL
…Looking For Richard This film is Al Pacino’s entertaining introduction to Shakespeare’s play Richard III. Mr. Pacino explains the plot, the motivation of the characters, and the era portrayed in…
RICHARD III
…modify the movie worksheets to fit the needs of each class. See also TWM’s Historical Fiction in Film Cross-Curricular Homework Project. This is the classic Lawrence Olivier version of Shakespeare’s…
THE OUTSIDERS
…also by Shakespeare. Hamlet is about how a teenager, in an incredibly weak position, overcame obstacles to find justice but lost his life in the process. Thus, there are strong…
MULTI-MEDIA SUPPLEMENT FOR JONATHAN EDWARDS’ “SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD”
…speech that describes by using words that equate two dissimilar things. Two examples of figure-of-speech metaphors are Shakespeare’s “It is the East and Juliet is the Sun” and Homer’s “wine-dark…
FOR TEACHERS
…can easily be adapted from the Learning Guides for these films. Back to the Top There are many excellent and accessible renditions of Shakespeare on film. We offer Learning…
THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
…Standards is defined to include filmed versions of plays. There are many plays set to film including most of the works of Shakespeare, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, Cyrano de…
LINCOLN
[youtube video=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVuqYkI2jQ” allowfullscreen=”true” iv_load_policy=”true” autohide=”Default” controls=”Always”] LINCOLN THE END OF AMERICA’S NIGHTMARE DANCE WITH SLAVERY SUBJECTS — U.S./1812 – 1865; Biography; Diversity/African-American; SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Leadership; MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Citizenship….
BEHIND THE SUN
…they confessed their crimes and apologized. See Truth and Reconciliation Commission article from Wikipedia. Vestiges of honor culture customs and thought are part of the history of Western Civilization. Shakespeare,…
SNIPPETS & SHORTS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS & DRAMA
…snippet: 14 minutes; lesson: one 45 – 55 minute class period] Shakespeare in Love Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Film Clip from Shakespeare in Love [14+; snippet: 40…
SNIPPETS & SHORT SUBJECTS
…minutes; lesson: One and one-half to two 45 – 50 minute class periods] Shakespeare in Love Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Using a Film Clip from Shakespeare in Love [14+;…
Empowering Students to Meet the Challenges of Our Time
…– 1963) Author Ms. Plath published her novel The Bell Jar when she was 30. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Playwright, Poet By about 1592 when Shakespeare was 28, his…
Enlivening the Teaching of Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” — Song, Dance, and Metaphor!
…Shakespeare expands our minds. Metaphor can be defined as a method of description in which an object, activity, or idea is equated with something that is fundamentally dissimilar. This equation…
Lesson Plans Using Film Adaptations of Novels, Short Stories or Plays
…actors, a set, sound, and lighting is an experience more like watching a movie than reading a script. One of the few exceptions are the plays of Shakespeare which are…
The Nature of Drama — A Brief Introduction
…divided into tragedies, comedies and histories, these distinctions do not apply as rigorously as once required back when Aristotle analyzed drama as an art form or when Shakespeare created the…
GOOD WILL HUNTING: SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
…dead giants of Western culture like Shakespeare and Nietzsche. They are dead and cannot betray Will or make him aware of his own feelings of inadequacy. 11. There are…
SUBJECT MATTER: LITERATURE
…A. Lesson Plans from Movies Based on the Literature of England For English Language Arts and Literature Classes (Including the traditional curriculum, Media Literacy, and Multimodal Literacy) For Shakespeare and…
WATER
WATER SUBJECTS — World/India; Religions/Hinduism; ELA: symbol and irony. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Human Rights; Suicide; Breaking Out; MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Respect; Caring; Fairness. AGE: 13+; MPAA Rating — PG-13 for…
WEST SIDE STORY
…West Side Story can be of benefit to students studying Romeo and Juliet as it helps them understand the timeless and universal nature of Shakespeare’s themes. The film is one…
TOOTSIE
…girls to be less tolerant of male misbehavior. Certain scenes in “Tootsie,” like Shakespeare’s wonderful comedy Twelfth Night, explore the nature of attraction between people of the same and different…
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
…was a biography of King Richard III (on which Shakespeare based his play; see Learning Guide to “Looking for Richard”). While the accuracy of More’s biography has been questioned, it…
GOOD WILL HUNTING
…relationships other than Chuckie, Will names Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and several other dead intellectual giants. These “friends” could not rise from the grave and hurt him.) Will does have strengths. His…
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
…not absorbed in a writing project, have time to spend as a family. The parents actively enrich Jess’s cultural experiences, introducing her at a young age to stories like Shakespeare’s…
FOR PARENTS
…is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The version of this film that we recommend stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. In one scene we see his completely unclothed backside and a…
SUBJECT MATTER: WORLD HISTORY/OTHER CULTURES
…[12+] Sense and Sensibility Literature/England; World/England [12+] Romeo and Juliet Snippet Lesson Plan for “Shakespeare in Love”: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet (Drama; World/England) [12+] Tale of Two Cities…
RESPONSIBILITY
…Caring; SEL: Romantic Relationships; Sisters; Subjects: Literature/England; World/England) [12+] Seven Days in May (Trustworthiness; Responsibility: SEL: Rebellion Subjects: U.S./1945 – 1991) [12+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Responsibility; SEL: Redemption; Subjects: Drama…
SUBJECT MATTER: UNITED STATES HISTORY & CULTURE
…[12+] Judgment at Nuremberg U.S./1941 – 1945, The Law (War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity); World/WWII [10+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Drama and U.S./The Law; SEL Redemption; Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [14+] To…
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
…give her something to strive against. There were few characters as well drawn and as admirable in English literature, except for women in Shakespeare’s plays. 32. There was something…
THE ODYSSEY
…Odysseus’ revenge on the suitors is never questioned from a moral standpoint. The modern view of revenge is described by Shakespeare in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet or West Side…
DOCUMENTARIES AND NON-FICTION
…[8 – 11; 25 minutes] Dancemaker (Biography/Taylor; Dance; SEL: Talent; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Responsibility) [12+] Looking For Richard (Drama/England; World/England; SEL: Brothers; Ambition; Moral-Ethical Emphasis: General) [12+] Shakespeare Behind Bars (Drama…