{"id":14231,"date":"2020-04-02T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/?p=14231"},"modified":"2021-08-15T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:28:18","slug":"shakespeare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a lover of language, there\u2019s nothing that holds a candle to Shakespearean prose. (This is, after all, the man who gave us <i>leapfrog<\/i>, <i>dead as a doornail<\/i>, <i>What\u2019s done is done<\/i>, <i>To be or not to be<\/i>, and <i>A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!<\/i>, to say nothing of the immortal <i>Let\u2019s kill all the lawyers<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>See below for all (well, a lot) on the Bard, including Shakespeare in fiction, Shakespeare\u2019s poems and plays, helps for performing Shakespeare, and info on Shakespearean sports, games, gardens, and feasts. See \u201cSeriously Quirky Shakespeare\u201d for Shakespeare and <i>Star Wars<\/i>, Shakespearean baseball, and the impressive Shakespeare Rubber Duck.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9871a35944\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9871a35944\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/#FUN_FICTION\" >FUN FICTION<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/2\/#THE_WORKS\" >THE WORKS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/3\/#ALL_ABOUT_THE_BARD\" >ALL ABOUT THE BARD<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/4\/#THE_GLOBE_THEATRE\" >THE GLOBE THEATRE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/4\/#_DAILY_LIVING_WITH_SHAKSPEARE_or_Food_Football_Flowers_and_Insults\" >\u00a0DAILY LIVING WITH SHAKSPEARE, or Food, Football, Flowers, and Insults<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/4\/#_PERFORMING_SHAKESPEARE\" >\u00a0PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/5\/#PLAYING_WITH_THE_BARD\" >PLAYING WITH THE BARD<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/5\/#SERIOUSLY_QUIRKY_SHAKESPEARE\" >SERIOUSLY QUIRKY SHAKESPEARE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/5\/#POETIC_SHAKESPEARE\" >POETIC SHAKESPEARE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/shakespeare-2\/6\/#SHAKESPEARE_AT_THE_MOVIES\" >SHAKESPEARE AT THE MOVIES<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FUN_FICTION\"><\/span><b>FUN FICTION<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sam-stars-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Pauline Francis\u2019s <i>Sam Stars at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe<\/i> (Frances Lincoln Children\u2019s Books, 2009) is the picture-book story of young Sam who wants to act in the company of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in England. Eventually he convinces Shakespeare to take him on, and works his way from part to part until he (with a bit of luck) wins the coveted role of Juliet. (The book explains that boys played the parts of girls and women on the Elizabethan stage.) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wills-quill-1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Don Freeman\u2019s <i>Will\u2019s Quill<\/i> (Viking Juvenile, 2004) is the delightful picture-book tale of Willoughby Waddle, an adventurous goose, who sets off for London, where he is befriended by young Will Shakespeare. There\u2019s a disastrous episode in which Will (goose) attempts to save Will (playwright\/actor) from a stage duel, but all ends happily, when the goose \u2013 with a gift of feathers \u2013 is able to help his new friend. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stage-fright-on-a-summer-night-magic-tree-house-25-osborn-D_NQ_NP_852073-MLA29147456834_012019-F-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mary Pope Osborne\u2019s <i>Stage Fright on a Summer Night<\/i> (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2002) \u2013 one of the Magic Treehouse Series \u2013 Jack and Annie are whizzed back to Elizabethan England, where they meet William Shakespeare, save a bear, and appear in a performance of \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-secret-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Elise Broach\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Secret<\/i> (Square Fish, 2007), Hero is named for a character in <i>Much Ado About Nothing<\/i> \u2013 but her new classmates think the name \u201cHero\u201d sounds more like a dog. Lonely and left out, Hero makes friends with Mrs. Roth, an eccentric neighbor, who tells her the story of the missing \u201cMurphy Diamond,\u201d said once to have belonged to Anne Boleyn. With the help of an eighth-grader named Danny, Hero sets out to solve the mystery of the diamond \u2013 discovering a lot along the way about Elizabethan life, William Shakespeare, and the controversy over who really wrote Shakespeare\u2019s plays. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/secrets-of-S-grave-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Deron R. Hicks\u2019s <i>Secrets of Shakespeare\u2019s Grave<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). 12-year-old Colophon Letterford is off to save the family publishing business by tracking down a mysterious Elizabethan treasure. (Each chapter begins with a quote from Shakespeare.) For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/master-skylark-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>John Bennett\u2019s <i>Master Skylark<\/i> (Forgotten Books, 2012) was originally published in 1897. The main character, young Nick Attwood, a boy with a voice like a skylark, runs away to see a play and ends up forced to perform with the Lord Admiral\u2019s Men, a group of traveling players, under the thumb of Gaston Carew. Eventually he arrives in London, meets Will Shakespeare, sings before the queen, and all ends happily. (The last chapter is titled \u201cAll\u2019s Well That Ends Well.\u201d) It\u2019s a delightful, old-fashioned read for ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The entire text of <i>Master Skylark<\/i> is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/11574\/11574-h\/11574-h.htm\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wicked-will-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Bailey MacDonald\u2019s <i>Wicked Will<\/i> (Aladdin, 2009), a troupe of strolling players arrives in Stratford, among them 13-year-old Viola (a.k.a. Tom), who travels disguised as a boy. When Viola\u2019s uncle is accused of murder, she joins forces with theatre-obsessed 12-year-old William Shakespeare, and together they devise a plot to discover the true culprit, involving an imaginative script written by Will, and Viola disguised as a ghastly ghost. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/King-of-Shadows-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susan Cooper\u2019s <i>King of Shadows<\/i> (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001), orphaned Nat Field, in London to play Puck in a new production of <i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>, travels back in time to Elizabethan England where he meets Shakespeare. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-shakespeare-stealer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gary Blackwood\u2019s <i>The Shakespeare Stealer <\/i>(Puffin, 2000) is the story of Widge, an orphan, whose unscrupulous master sends him to the Globe Theater to steal Shakespeare\u2019s latest play (<i>Hamlet<\/i>). Despite this, Widge eventually finds new friends and ends up a member of the Globe company. Sequels include <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Scribe <\/i>and <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Spy<\/i>. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rosencrantz-Stoppard-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Tom Stoppard\u2019s acclaimed play <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/i> (Grove Press, 1994) is a brilliant version of Hamlet, told from the unexpected points of view of minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern \u2013 old school friends of Hamlet, summoned by the King, his uncle, to cheer the depressed prince up. When this fails, they\u2019re ordered to kill him, but Hamlet manages to turn the tables on them. A good pick for high-school-level literature classes, and a great discussion promoter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100519\/\">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/a> (1990), directed by Tom Stoppard, stars Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as the title characters. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/impossible-things-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Connie Willis\u2019s short story \u201cAdo,\u201d which appears in her creative sci-fi collection <i>Impossible Things<\/i> (Spectra, 1993), is set in a super-politically-correct future where the plays of Shakespeare are banned due to multiple protests (the International Federation of Florists objects to Hamlet because Ophelia fell into the water and drowned while picking flowers; the National Cutlery Council objects to the depiction of swords as deadly weapons). In the same collection, see \u201cWinter\u2019s Tale,\u201d Willis\u2019s take on who <i>really<\/i> wrote Shakespeare. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wyrd-sisters-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Terry Pratchett\u2019s <i>Wyrd Sisters<\/i> (Harper, 2013), a fantastic and hilarious concoction of Shakespeare and fairy tale, features the three witches &#8211; Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick \u2013 along with a host of other characters, among them the wicked Duke Felmet (who has murdered King Verence), Hwel, a dwarf playwright, and young Tomjon who \u2013 though he doesn\u2019t know it \u2013 is the rightful heir to the throne. One of the wonderful Discworld series. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/thurber-carnival-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>For mystery-minded readers, see James Thurber\u2019s hilarious short story \u201cThe Macbeth Murder Mystery\u201d in <i>The Thurber Carnival<\/i> (Harper &amp; Brothers, 1945) \u2013 the Macbeths, it turns out, were (!) <i>totally innocent<\/i>. Read it online <a href=\"http:\/\/userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/anthro\/jbeatty\/COURSES\/Macbeth\/thurber.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/daughter-of-time-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Josephine Tey\u2019s <i>Daughter of Time<\/i> (Scribner, 1995), detective Alan Grant \u2013 confined to a hospital bed with a broken leg \u2013 tackles the mystery of Richard III. (Did Richard <i>really <\/i>murder the little princes in the Tower? Is Shakespeare\u2019s Richard historically correct?). For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Flavia-de-Luce--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Alan Bradley\u2019s <i>I Am Half-Sick of Shadows<\/i> (Bantam, 2012) \u2013 one of the terrific Flavia de Luce mystery series \u2013 is set in the 1950s in a crumbling mansion in England, and features precocious eleven-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family. Here, Flavia\u2019s father, the financially strapped Colonel de Luce, had agreed to rent out the family home to a film company just before Christmas. Featured, along with Flavia\u2019s chemistry-based plans to prove the existence of Father Christmas, is a fatal re-enactment of the balcony scene from <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/light-thickens-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In mystery writer Ngaio Marsh\u2019s <i>Death at the Dolphin<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1999), the plot revolves around a restored theater, a Shakespeare performance, and a rare antique glove, once owned by Shakespeare\u2019s son Hamnet. Also by Marsh, see <i>Light Thickens<\/i> (Jove, 1992), which features a performance of Macbeth and a legendary Scottish sword. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For many more mystery resources, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=3622\">Mysteries<\/a>. (Reading mysteries makes you smarter.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>THE WORKS<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/romeo-and-juliet-for-babies-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Shakespeare for babies? By author Jennifer Adams and artist Alison Oliver, <i>Romeo and Juliet: A BabyLit Counting Primer<\/i> (Gibbs Smith, 2011) is a stylishly illustrated counting book with Shakespearean motifs (beginning with ONE BALCONY). Cute, but don\u2019t expect a whole lot of Shakespeare. For ages 1-3.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lois-Burdett-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Titles in Lois Burdett\u2019s Shakespeare Can Be Fun picture-book series (Firefly Books) include <i>Hamlet for Kids<\/i>, <i>Macbeth for Kids<\/i>, <i>The Tempest for Kids<\/i>, and many more. In each, an abbreviated plot of the play, delivered in rhyming couplets, is paired with great illustrations by Burdett\u2019s early-elementary students.\u00a0 For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tales-from-S-Marcia-Wms-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Marcia Williams\u2019s <i>Tales from Shakespeare <\/i>(Candlewick Press, 2004) presents the plots of seven Shakespearean plays in a clever comic-book-style format, with the story line in boxes beneath the pictures and supporting dialogue in cartoon bubbles. The illustrations, which are wonderful, include lots of detailed and colorful little people; and the borders of the pages depict an Elizabethan theater audience, from the rowdy pit to the elegant boxes. Plays include <i>Hamlet<\/i>, <i>Macbeth<\/i>, <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, and a truly gorgeous <i>Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>. For ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/More-TAles-from-S-Marcia-Wms-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>A sequel, <i>More Tales from Shakespeare<\/i> (Candlewick, 2005) includes seven more plays in the same format, among them <i>Twelfth Night<\/i>, <i>King Lear<\/i>, <i>As You Like It<\/i>, <i>Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III<\/i>, and <i>Antony and Cleopatra<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-children-s-shakespeare-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>E. Nesbit\u2019s <i>The Children\u2019s Shakespeare<\/i> (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2000), originally published in 1938, contains simple prose re-tellings of eleven of the plays, all of which read like enthralling fairy tales. Nesbit\u2019s <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, for example, begins \u201cOnce upon a time there lived in Verona two great families named Montagu and Capulet. They were both rich, and I suppose they were as sensible, in most things, as other rich people. But in one thing they were extremely silly.\u201d For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tales-from-S-Tina-Packer-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Tina Packer\u2019s <i>Tales from Shakespeare<\/i> (Scholastic, 2004) is a beautifully designed 192-page collection of prose retellings of ten of Shakespeare\u2019s best-known plays, each with an illustration by a popular children\u2019s book artist. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Charles-and-Mary-Lamb-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Charles and Mary Lamb\u2019s <i>Tales from Shakespeare<\/i> was originally published in 1807, these prose versions of the plays still charm today. Now available in many editions. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stories-from-S-McCaughrean-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Geraldine McCaughrean\u2019s <em>Stories from Shakespeare<\/em> (Orion, 2017) retells ten of Shakespeare\u2019s plays in kid-accessible prose, with a cast list and assorted quotations. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Leon-GArfield-S-Stories-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Leon Garfield\u2019s <em>Shakespeare Stories<\/em> (NYR Children\u2019s, 2015) has prose versions of 21 Shakespearean plays. A masterful interweaving of Shakespeare\u2019s own words with lively modern prose. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespearestorybook-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Where did Shakespeare get his ideas? Patrick Ryan\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Storybook<\/i> (Barefoot Books, 2006) is an illustrated collection of the traditional stories that led to seven of Shakespeare\u2019s plays.\u00a0 For example, \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bet\u201d underlies <i>The Taming of the Shrew<\/i> and \u201cCap-o-Rushes\u201d may have inspired <i>King Lear<\/i>. Each story is preceded by a discussion of its influence on the play. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-made-easy-series-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Alan Durband\u2019s Shakespeare Made Easy Series (Barron\u2019s Educational Series) is targeted at Shakespeare-phobic high-school students: each play is presented with the original text on one side of the page and, on the facing page, a \u201ctranslation\u201d into modern English. (I\u2019d urge teenagers to at least try the original before settling for the translation \u2013 \u201cHey! You got a knife?\u201d just doesn\u2019t have the same <i>ring<\/i>.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Manga-Shakespeare-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangashakespeare.com\/\">Manga Shakespeare<\/a> series (Amulet Books) \u2013 one of the latest in Shakespeare interpretations \u2013 pairs manga-style illustrations and a comic-book format with right-from-the-text Shakespearean dialogue. (Check out Macbeth, shirtless, with sword and purple pants, and Romeo and Juliet, with motorcycle.) For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Friendly-Shakespeare-Epstein-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Norrie Epstein\u2019s <i>The Friendly Shakespeare <\/i>(Penguin Books, 1994) presents \u2013 in 550 nicely designed pages and a very friendly manner &#8211; all kinds of fascinating information about Shakespeare\u2019s life, times, and plays. Included is almost everything you could possibly want to know about Shakespeare: who he really was and what he might have looked like, the histories of each of the plays from conception to the present day, the workings of the Elizabethan stage, modern Shakespearean spin-offs, timelines and chronologies, famous quotations, irresistible trivia. A great resource for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-after-all-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Marjorie Garber\u2019s (enormous; it\u2019s over 1000 pages long) <i>Shakespeare After All<\/i> (Anchor, 2005) \u2013 based on her college lecture series &#8211; is a scholarly analysis of all of Shakespeare\u2019s works, one chapter per play. For serious and devoted Shakespeare students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-Harold-Bloom-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Harold Bloom\u2019s massive and erudite <i>Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human<\/i> (Riverhead Trade Books, 1999) provides in-depth analyses of each of the plays and discusses Shakespeare\u2019s role in the evolution of the English language and the development of Western thought. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/contested-will-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>James Shapiro\u2019s <i>Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010) covers arguments for and against the many claimants for authorship of Shakespeare\u2019s plays, and discusses how the plays themselves may reveal the truth about their author. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-kings-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>John Julius Norwich\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Kings <\/i>(Scribner, 2001), subtitled \u201cThe Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages,\u201d is an intriguing comparison of Shakespeare\u2019s plots to documented history. A thoroughly interesting read for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/kidsloveshakespeare.com\/\">Kids Love Shakespeare<\/a> has adaptations of several plays (<i>Twelfth Night<\/i>, <i>Much Ado About Nothing<\/i>, <i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>, and <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>) for elementary-level students (for sale and unfortunately expensive; a pdf download costs $45). More affordable is a CD of Shakespearean songs (\u201cSoul Cake &amp; Other Songs,\u201d $10). See the Activities and Resources page for a great selection of projects, among them making character portraits, putting on a Shakespearean puppet show, and making an illustrated Shakespearean timeline.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/absoluteshakespeare.com\/\">Absolute Shakespeare<\/a> has the texts of all the plays and sonnets on line, a selection of famous Shakespearean quotes, a list of Shakespearean film adaptations, a Shakespeare timeline, and a \u201cgrueling\u201d Shakespeare quiz.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Having trouble with all those varlets and forsooths? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/\">No Fear Shakespeare<\/a> pairs the original Shakespearean text with side-by-side translation into modern English. Includes 24 plays, plus the sonnets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The complete works with associated learning materials for iPhone or iPad. See the app <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/shakespeare\/id285035416\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the Learning Network, <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/02\/teaching-shakespeare-with-the-new-york-times\/\">Teaching Shakespeare with the New York Times<\/a> has a list of creative lesson plans, among them \u201cTo Freeze or Not to Freeze,\u201d in which kids create \u201cfrozen tableaux\u201d of scenes from the plays; and \u201cThe Bard in the Big Apple,\u201d in which kids experiment with setting Shakespeare\u2019s plays in modern times.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>ALL ABOUT THE BARD<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/childs-portrait-of-S-burdett-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Lois Burdett\u2019s <i>A Child\u2019s Portrait of Shakespeare<\/i> (Firefly Books, 1995) is a picture-book biography related in rhyming couplets, and illustrated by early-elementary students. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From Kids Discover, which publishes gorgeously illustrated short non-fiction magazines for kids, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsdiscover.com\/shop\/issues\/shakespeare-for-kids\/\">Shakespeare<\/a> issue for a catchy overview of Shakespeare\u2019s life, work, and times (and a great cutaway illustration of the Globe Theatre). For ages 6-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bard-of-avon-the-story-of-william-shakespeare-original-imafbp47vzrybw2h-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema, <i>Bard of Avon <\/i>(Morrow Junior Books, 1998) is a beautifully done and well-balanced biography, with great full-page illustrations and an interesting \u201cPostscript\u201d in the back on Shakespearean language and spelling. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wm-S-and-Globe-Aliki-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wm-S-and-Globe-Aliki-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wm-S-and-Globe-Aliki-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wm-S-and-Globe-Aliki-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wm-S-and-Globe-Aliki.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Aliki\u2019s <i>William Shakespeare and the Globe <\/i>(Harpercollins, 1999) presents Shakespeare\u2019s life as a picture-book play in five Acts, with charming illustrations and lots of additional information in little sidebars and boxes. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Who-was-Wm-S_-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Celeste Mannis\u2019s <i>Who Was William Shakespeare?<\/i> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 2006) is an attractive short chapter book on the life and times of Shakespeare, with a lot of interesting asides \u2013 a list of words coined by Shakespeare (<i>puppy dog<\/i>, <i>rascally<\/i>, <i>zany<\/i>), a capsule biography of Queen Elizabeth I, an explanation of blank verse. A good pick for ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/S-for-kids-CRP-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><i>Shakespeare for Kids <\/i>by Colleen Aagesen and Margie Blumberg (Chicago Review Press, 1999) is an informational activity book on the life and times of Shakespeare. Included, along with biographical and historical background information, are suggestions for staging a scene from Shakespeare\u2019s <i>Julius Caesar<\/i>, and directions for making an Elizabethan costume and a sword, a pomander ball, a quill pen (to be used for composing a sonnet), and a recipe for a yummy dish of Elizabethan Apple Moye. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Bill-Bryson-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Bill Bryson\u2019s <i>Shakespeare: The World as Stage<\/i> (HarperPerennial, 2008) is a wonderful and witty 200-page biography of Shakespeare (\u201cat once the best known and the least known of figures\u201d). For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/how-S-changed-everything-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Stephen Marche\u2019s <i>How Shakespeare Changed Everything<\/i> (HarperPerennial, 2012) is an interesting and informational account of how Shakespeare impinges on all aspects of culture. For example, his influence led to the rise of black actors on Broadway, the introduction of starlings to America, and the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and helped form our attitudes toward sex and young love. A final chapter dwells on who Shakespeare was (or wasn\u2019t). A fun read for interested teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/a-year-in-the-life-of-william-shakespeare-professor-james-shapiro-9780060088743-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>James Shapiro\u2019s highly readable <i>A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599<\/i> (HarperPerennial, 2006) covers a landmark year both in Shakespeare\u2019s life and in British history. Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays and saw the building of the Globe Theater; England dealt with the threat of a second Armada, a disastrous campaign in Ireland led by the Earl of Essex, and worries about succession to the throne. Thoroughly interesting, for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Peter-Ackroyd-biog-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Peter Ackroyd\u2019s <i>Shakespeare: The Biography<\/i> (Anchor Books, 2006), an in-depth coverage of Shakespeare\u2019s life and times, is crammed with interesting information. Highly recommended for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Will-in-the-World-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Stephen Greenblatt\u2019s award-winning <i>Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare<\/i> (W.W. Norton, 2005) interweaves Shakespearean biography with the world of the Elizabethans. A great read for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/S-Saved-My-Life-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Laura Bates\u2019s <i>Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard<\/i> (Sourcebooks, 2013) is the story of the author\u2019s experience teaching Shakespeare to prison inmates \u2013 notably to Larry Newton, who spent ten years in solitary confinement after a murder conviction as a teenager, and for whom Shakespeare was a life-changing revelation. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Shakespeares-tremor-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>John J. Ross\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Tremor and Orwell\u2019s Cough<\/i> (St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2012) is subtitled \u201cThe Medical Lives of Famous Writers\u201d \u2013 various chapters cover the ailments of William Shakespeare, John Milton, the Bronte family, Jack London, Herman Melville, and more. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/In-Search-of-S-PBS-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>From PBS, the four-part series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Search-Shakespeare-Michael-Wood\/dp\/B00019JRFY\">In Search of Shakespeare<\/a> is a delightful mock investigation into the life and times of the Bard, conducted in part by the fictional John Fribbling, agent of the state, out to apprehend William Shakespeare, suspected Papist and free thinker. The text of \u201cThe Fribbling Reports\u201d is on the website. (It begins: \u201cI have a lump the size of an Alderman\u2019s backside on my head, and I strongly suspect that young Shakespeare is to blame.\u201d) Also at the site: a teacher\u2019s guide with lesson plans and the Playwright Game (could you succeed as an Elizabethan playwright?).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The BBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z7d7gwx\/articles\/zrxwy9q\">William Shakespeare<\/a> site, targeted at elementary-level kids, has basic information on Shakespeare\u2019s life and work, fun facts about Shakespeare, and an interactive \u201cTo Be or Not to Be\u201d gameshow-style Shakespearean game.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/folger-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From the Folger Shakespeare Library, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.folger.edu\/shakespeare-kids\">Shakespeare for Kids <\/a>has Shakespearean games, puzzles, and challenges, fun facts, info on the life and times of Queen Elizabeth I, activities for kids based on items in the library collection, an exhibit of favorite Folger treasures, a page for sharing writing and artwork, and much more. There\u2019s also an extensive list of resources for teachers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mr-Donn-Medieval-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From creative teacher Mr. Donn, <a href=\"http:\/\/literature.mrdonn.org\/shakespeare.html\">William Shakespeare<\/a> has PowerPoint presentations and lesson plans, background information, summaries, paraphrases, full texts of several plays, and games and activities centered around Elizabethan England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bardweb.net\/\">Shakespeare Resource Center<\/a> is a great comprehensive site, variously covering Shakespeare\u2019s biography and will, his works, language, the authorship debate, the Globe Theatre, and more. Each topic has a list of related websites. Also included is an extensive reading list.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>How did Shakespeare spell his name? And what did he look like? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeare-online.com\/\">Shakespeare Online<\/a> deals with these questions and much more: included on the website, for example, are a complete list of Shakespearean characters, a guide to Shakespearean theatres, study questions and quizzes on the plays, and info on Elizabethan outfits and Ophelia\u2019s flowers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespearemag.com\/\">ShakespeareMag.com<\/a> is a great source for educational and learning resources about William Shakespeare, with a wealth of helpful info on Shakespeare\u2019s life and works, teaching suggestions, a list of \u201cMost Popular Shakespeare DVDs\u201d (among them <i>West Side Story<\/i> and <i>Forbidden Planet<\/i>), and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/seriousgamesmarket.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/serious-games-international-brings.html\">Eye Shakespeare<\/a> &#8211; a free download from iTunes \u2013 is intended to enhance the experience of tourists visiting Shakespeare\u2019s Stratford-upon-Avon.\u00a0 Lots of cool features, including lectures from Shakespeare himself and a 3-D reconstruction of the Elizabethan-era town.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><!--nextpage--><\/h4>\n<h4><b>THE GLOBE THEATRE<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-globe-popup-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeares-Globe-Interactive-Pop-up-Theatre\/dp\/0763626945\/\">Shakespeare\u2019s Globe: An Interactive Pop-Up Theatre<\/a> by Toby Forward and Jan Wijngaard (Candlewick Press, 2005) is a detailed and accurate ten-inch fold-out model of the Globe Theatre, along with twelve moveable characters from the plays, a pair of abbreviated scripts, and background information on the Elizabethan theatre world. Enact your own small-sized Shakespearean plays. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespearesglobe.com\/\">Shakespeare\u2019s Globe<\/a> is the website of the modern rebuilt Globe Theatre. The site, along with wonderful scenes of the theatre and performances, has an extensive and excellent education section and a playground for kids with games, activities, and quizzes, hosted by a collection of Shakespeare\u2019s Beasts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/model-globe-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.shakespearesglobe.com\/products\/globe-theatre-model-kit\">Globe Theatre Model Kit<\/a> is a cardstock model of the theatre with 99 parts. (Finished size: about 10 inches wide and 4 inches high.) Not for the very young. About $16.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>At <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/03\/04\/8-insane-literary-lego-projects\/\">8 Insane Literary Lego Projects<\/a>, check out the incredible Lego version of Shakespeare\u2019s Globe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>DAILY LIVING WITH SHAKSPEARE, or Food, Football, Flowers, and Insults<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/healthy.uwaterloo.ca\/museum\/Archives\/Brewster\/shake.html\">Games and Sports in Shakespeare<\/a> lists every game and sport mentioned by Shakespeare, with references and explanations. They\u2019re in alphabetical order, from Archery to Wrestling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-flowers-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jessica Kerr\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Flowers<\/i> (Johnson Books, 1997) covers the lore of all the flowers mentioned in Shakespeare\u2019s plays and poems. Illustrated with lovely full-color paintings.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Plant a Shakespeare garden of your own. From the New York Botanical Garden, see <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.nybg.org\/shakespearegarden\">Shakespeare Garden<\/a> for suggestions and plant lists.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Want to talk like Shakespeare? See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renfaire.com\/Language\/\">Proper Elizabethan Accents<\/a> for pronunciation drills, vocabulary and grammar practice, insults and cursing (use your judgment),\u00a0 forms of address, and songs. Learn how to say \u201cGood morrow\u201d properly and what to yell at a pickpocket.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Take your diction out for a spin on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/23\/talk-like-shakespeare-day_n_1445117.html\">Talk Like Shakespeare Day<\/a>, celebrated annually on April 23, Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-s-insults-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Ottchen, <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Insults<\/i> (Three Rivers Press, 1995) is a collection of 5000, excerpted from the plays. Everything you ever wanted to know about Elizabethan invective. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prospero-Art-Shakespeare-Insults-Playing\/dp\/0979818214\/\">Shakespeare Insults Playing Cards<\/a> have an insult for each illustrated card.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-kitchen-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Francine Segan\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Kitchen<\/i> (Random House, 2003) is a terrific collection of \u201cRenaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook,\u201d running from \u201cKickshaws\u201d and \u201cPottage\u201d to \u201cFeasting and Bills of Fare.\u201d The original 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century recipes are paired with modern interpretations, background information, and color photographs. A great source for your next Shakespearean banquet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/culture\/article\/to-feast-or-not-to-feast-toasting-the-bards-birthday\">To Feast or Not to Feast: Toasting the Bard&#8217;s Birthday<\/a> from National Geographic&#8217;s The Plate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From TeachersFirst, find out how to throw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/lessons\/shak-feast.cfm\">Shakespearean Feast<\/a>.\u00a0 The site includes a discussion of Elizabethan table manners (no forks) and a range of Elizabethan recipes, from trifle to steak and kidney pie.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Macbeth-for-Kids-Kelso-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Brendan P. Kelso, the Playing with Plays Series (BookSurge Publishing) consists of short (10-minute) adaptations of Shakespeare\u2019s plays for young performers. Titles include <i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>, <i>The Tempest<\/i>, <i>Twelfth Night<\/i>, <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, <i>Macbeth<\/i>, <i>Hamlet<\/i>, <i>Julius Caesar<\/i>, and <i>The Taming of the Shrew<\/i>. Each book contains three versions of the play (for small-, medium-, and large-sized casts) with rehearsal and performance suggestions. For ages 7 and up. Also see the <a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithplays.com\/\">Playing with Plays: Shakespeare for Kids<\/a> website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/simply-shakespeare-readers-theatre-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Jennifer Kroll, <i>Simply Shakespeare: Readers Theatre for Young People<\/i> (Libraries Unlimited, 2003) has simplified and modernized versions of 13 Shakespearean plays, with accompanying suggestions for presentations and props. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/discovering-shakespeare-series-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Truncated or modernized versions of Shakespeare can be helpful for those planning Shakespearean performances, particularly if your cast is on the younger side. The Discovering Shakespeare Series by Fredi Olster and Rick Hamilton (Smith and Kraus) are worktexts for middle- and high-school-level kids interested in Shakespearean acting. The books include both abridged and vernacular versions of the originals, plus stage directions, performance tips, and related exercises. Available for <i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>, <i>Macbeth<\/i>, <i>Much Ado About Nothing<\/i>, <i>The Taming of the Shrew<\/i>, and <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/how-to-teach-your-children-S-Ludwig-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Playwright Ken Ludwig\u2019s <i>How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare<\/i> (Crown, 2013) as an engrossing account of how the author taught his kids Shakespeare, beginning when they were six years old. (And why teach Shakespeare? Because, says Ludwig, he\u2019s one of the two great bedrocks of Western civilization in English, along with the King James Bible.) A great resource for parents and teachers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teach-like-hairs-on-fire-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Rafe Esquith\u2019s <i>Teach Like Your Hair\u2019s on Fire<\/i> (Penguin Books, 2007) is the story of a brilliant, dedicated, and creative teacher attempting to promote a progressive and successful curriculum for his fifth-graders despite the restrictions of the school system. It\u2019s a fascinating and inspirational book, crammed with wonderful ideas. Check out Esquith\u2019s account of his Hobart Shakespeareans, famous for performing full-text Shakespeare plays. For parents, homeschoolers, teachers, and all interested in education.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See the PBS documentary on Esquith\u2019s Shakespeare program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0473215\/\">The Hobart Shakespeareans<\/a> (2005).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Performing-S-Bob-Sugarman-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Robert Sugarman&#8217;s <em>Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn<\/em> (Mountainside Press, 2011) describes four very different (and very successful) programs for doing Shakespeare with kids. A great resource for would-be Shakespeareans.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Living-with-S-Carson-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Susannah Carson, <i>Living with Shakespeare<\/i> (Vintage, 2013) is a collection of essays by writers, actors, and directors, sharing their personal experiences of the Bard. Among the contributors are Isabel Allende, Ralph Fiennes, James Earl Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Taymor. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/finger-puppet-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophersguild.com\/\">Unemployed Philosopher&#8217;s Guild<\/a>, how about a Shakespeare finger puppet? (Put on a small play.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>PLAYING WITH THE BARD<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-quotes-cards-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From Prospero Art, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prospero-Art-Shakespeare-Quotes-Playing\/dp\/0979818206\/\">Shakespeare Quotes Playing Cards<\/a> have a famous quote on each illustrated card.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chronicles-shakespeare-game-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From Big Fish Games, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfishgames.com\/games\/6383\/the-chronicles-of-shakespeare-romeo-juliet\/\">The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet<\/a>, players take on the roles of Romeo or Juliet as Shakespeare is in the process of writing his famous play. Lots of puzzles and obstacles to be overcome (check out the Blog Walkthrough). Available for Mac or Windows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/enterthestory.com\/a\/web\/about-books-as-games.html\">Enter the Story<\/a> is an online project and teaching tool in which books are converted into interactive games. There are eight Shakespearean plays available as free online games: <i>Julius Caesar<\/i>, <i>The Tempest<\/i>, <i>Othello<\/i>, <i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>, <i>A Winter\u2019s Tale<\/i>, <i>Hamlet<\/i>, <i>Macbeth<\/i>, and <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i> (with more in the works). Fun, witty, and informative.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brainbox-shakespeare-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Green-Board-Co-90042\/dp\/B00K6IT6CY\/\">Brainbox Shakespeare<\/a> is a Shakespearean Q&amp;A game based on a pack of beautifully illustrated cards, each with a quotation and a caption explaining the scene from the play. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/munchkin-shakespeare-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/toys-games-munchkin-shakespeare\/31817744\">Munchkin Shakespeare<\/a> (Steve Jackson Games) is one of a parody series on fantasy role-playing games, involving a board, clever cards, and \u2013 as in all Munchkin games \u2013 opportunities to kill monsters and backstab your friends. Cards include \u201cCurse! Winter of Your Discontent, \u201cMortal Coil,\u201d and \u201cSonnet the Hedgehog.\u201d The more Shakespeare you know, the funnier it is. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Bard-Game-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Uberplay-G09847-Shakespeare-Board-Game\/dp\/B0006HCWJ4\">Shakespeare: The Bard Game<\/a> is a board game in which players travel through Elizabeth London collecting collect actors, props, and patrons for performances of Shakespeare\u2019s plays by answering trivia questions. For 2-5 players ages 12 and up. About $30.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-plays-the-thing-game-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TaliCor-Plays-Thing-Board-Game\/dp\/B00000JGRJ\">The Play\u2019s the Thing<\/a>, players \u2013 as Shakespearean actors \u2013 move their pieces around a colorful board based on the Globe Theatre, attempting to collect all the cards necessary for staging a scene from <i>Julius Caesar<\/i>, <i>Hamlet<\/i>, or <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>. There are several levels of play for players with varying levels of Shakespearean expertise, including options for memorizing quotations and performing scenes. For 2-6 players ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeare-game-asmodee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In the board game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.us.asmodee.com\/catalogue\/shakespeare_767\/\">Shakespeare<\/a> (Asmodee), players as theater managers compete to put together the best possible Shakespeare play before the Queen arrives to view the new show. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/paper-dolls-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Tom Tierney\u2019s <i>Great Characters from Shakespeare Paper Dolls <\/i>(Dover Publications, 2000) has two dolls and 30 costumes, variously for Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Othello and Desdemona, and more. Included are short synopses of the plays. $6.95 from <a href=\"http:\/\/store.doverpublications.com\">Dover Publications<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coloring-bk-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-Coloring-Book-Bellerophon-Books\/dp\/0883880083\/\">The Shakespeare Coloring Book<\/a> (Bellerophon Books) has quotes from the plays and black-line illustrations to color. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>SERIOUSLY QUIRKY SHAKESPEARE<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Star-Wars-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Ian Doescher\u2019s <i>William Shakespeare\u2019s Star Wars<\/i> (Quirk Books, 2013) translates George Lucas\u2019s epic into the language of the Bard, complete with chorus and dialogue in iambic pentameter. (\u201cThe Death Star plans we could not find herein\/Nor are they on the main computer, Lord.\u201d) Hilarious for teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianshakespeares.ca\/a_baseball.cfm\">The Shakespearean Baseball Game<\/a>\u00a0(Wayne and Shuster) has background information and a printable short and hilarious script for a play about a baseball game (set on Bosworth Field). (\u201cUmpire 1: I give you greeting, Antonio.\/Thou hast the starting lineups?\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/green-eggs-and-hamlet-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockseye.com\/geah.php\">Green Eggs and Hamlet<\/a> is a hysterical short video version of <i>Hamlet<\/i> in which the \u201cannoying iambic pentameter\u201d of the original has been replaced with \u201ca more accessible Dr.-Seuss-style rhyme.\u201d Available on DVD.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bandaids-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\u201cThy wit\u2019s as thick as Tewksbury mustard!\u201d Paste <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Accoutrements-12389-Shakespearean-Insult-Bandages\/dp\/B00BPWU3SQ\/\">Shakespearean Insult Bandages<\/a> on your skinned knees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rubber-duck-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>For the Bard-lover who has everything, the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.celebriducks.com\/product_p\/80002.htm\">Shakespeare Rubber Duck<\/a> is the perfect literary bathtub toy, complete with mustache, manuscript, Elizabethan ruffles, and orange bill. $11.99.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>POETIC SHAKESPEARE<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shakespeares-seasons-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Miriam Weiner\u2019s <i>Shakespeare\u2019s Seasons<\/i> (Downtown Bookworks, 2012) pairs gorgeous artwork with quotes from Shakespeare\u2019s plays and poems to illustrate the changing seasons. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/under-greenwood-tree-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Barbara Holdridge, <i>Under the Greenwood Tree<\/i> (Stemmer House Publishers, 1986) pairs paintings with Shakespearean poems and play excerpts. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Read Shakespeare\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/47423\/song-under-the-greenwood-tree\">Under the Greenwood Tree<\/a>\u201d (from <i>As You Like It<\/i>) here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Poetry-for-Young-People-1-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by David Scott Kasten and Marina Kasten, <i>Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare<\/i> (Sterling, 2008) \u2013 one of an excellent poetry series \u2013 pairs Shakespearean sonnets and soliloquies with impressive artwork. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeares-sonnets.com\/\">Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets<\/a> has all of them, with line-by-line notes, word definitions, and analyses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>SHAKESPEARE AT THE MOVIES<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>For those who lack ready access to Shakespearean theater, there\u2019s a <i>lot <\/i>of superb Shakespeare available on video. See, for example, the (enormous) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000636\/\">Internet Movie Database Shakespeare<\/a> film list. (Be warned: concerned parents should screen movies in advance. Shakespeare interpretations range from the mild to the gory; and in Roman Polanski\u2019s 1971 version of <i>Macbeth<\/i> \u2013 telling known as the \u201cNude Macbeth\u201d \u2013 the Lady sleepwalks without jammies.)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/S-Animated-TAles-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0147788\/\">Shakespeare: The Animated Tales<\/a> is an award-winning series of short (about half an hour) animated adaptations of Shakespeare\u2019s plays, originally aired on television between 1992 and 1994. A\u00a012-play collection is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-Animated-Tales-Alec-McCowen\/dp\/B0002CHJS2\/\">DVD<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/S-Uncovered-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/shakespeare-uncovered\/\">Shakespeare Uncovered<\/a> is a series of six films combining history, biography, performance, and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare\u2019s plays with such famous presenters as Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, and Derek Jacobi. Included at the website is a quiz to determine which Shakespearean character you are and a series of interactive games, among them \u201cDeath and Dying in Hamlet and Macbeth\u201d and \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Enchanted Forest.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/slings-and-arrows-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The TV series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0387779\/\">Slings and Arrows<\/a> (2003-2006) is the story of Geoffrey (Paul Gross), a director recovering from a nervous breakdown, who is tasked with revitalizing a dystopic Canadian theater festival. In each of the three seasons of the miniseries the festival puts on a different Shakespearian play (\u201cHamlet\u201d for season one, followed by \u201cMacbeth\u201d and \u201cKing Lear\u201d), and the characters come to understand the facets of their own lives through the lens of the dramas they perform. The first season is the strongest, with the most direct Shakespearian parallels to the characters lives, but the series is a must-watch for anyone interested watching ins-and-outs of how Thespians make the sausage. [Guest reviewer Josh Rupp. Thanks, Josh!]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/reduced-shakespeare-co-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Impatient? Check out T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0301126\/\">he Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)<\/a> by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Thirty-seven plays in under two hours. And it&#8217;s hilarious.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>A few movie highlights:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/branah-hamlet-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Kenneth Branagh\u2019s 1996 version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116477\/\">Hamlet<\/a> is cinematically spectacular. Branagh plays Hamlet; Kate Winslet, Ophelia. The production is four hours long, but it doesn\u2019t feel like it. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A_Midwinters_Tale-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Directed by Kenneth Branagh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113403\/\">A Midwinter\u2019s Tale<\/a> (1995) is the story of out-of-work actor Joe Harper who \u2013 in a effort to stave off depression &#8211; volunteers to help save his sister\u2019s church from land developers by staging a Christmas production of <i>Hamlet<\/i>. A romantic comedy with a caste of oddball British characters. Rated R.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Midsummer-Nights-Dr-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The entrancing 1999 version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0140379\/\">A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/a> is set somewhere around the turn of the century; the confused lovers ride bicycles through the forest. Kevin Kline plays Nick Bottom, complete with donkey ears; Michelle Pfeiffer, Titania; and Stanley Tucci is a terrific Puck. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Branagh-Much-Ado-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Kenneth Branagh plays Benedick, in a delightful 1993 production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107616\/\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/a>, with Emma Thompson as a very witty Beatrice and Michael Keaton as a notably dippy Dogberry. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/branagh-Henry-V-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In this great version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/\">Henry V<\/a> (1989), Kenneth Branagh plays Henry, with Emma Thompson as the French king\u2019s daughter, Katherine. There\u2019s a phenomenal Battle of Agincourt. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/richard-III-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In this 1995 production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114279\/\">Richard III<\/a>, the play is set in the 1930\u2019s; Richard (Ian McKellen) is a uniformed dictator; and the final battle features airplanes and guns. Rated R.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/looking-for-richard-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116913\/\">Looking for Richard<\/a> (1996) is a fascinating documentary-style account of the staging of the <i>Richard III<\/i> in which Al Pacino and cast dissect, discuss, and experiment with all aspects of the play. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Romeo-and-J-movie-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Among the most popular of Romeo and Juliets is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117509\/\">1996 version<\/a> starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes; if you\u2019re not a fan of Leonardo, try Franco Zefferelli\u2019s 1968 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063518\/\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a>, with Leonard Whiting and Oliva Hussey. Rated, respectively, PG-13 and PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/S-in-Love-movie-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0138097\/\">Shakespeare in Love<\/a><i> <\/i>(1998), Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) struggles to write the play that ultimately becomes <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>. He\u2019s in love with Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow); the supporting case includes Judi Dench, who plays a marvelous Queen Elizabeth, and Geoffrey Rush as a harried theater manager. Rated R.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/macbeth-1978-movie-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Trevor Nunn\u2019s 1978\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079499\/\">Macbeth<\/a>, Ian McKellen plays Macbeth and Judi Dench, his manipulative Lady, with a cast of supporting characters from the Royal Shakespeare Company.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/macbeth-2010-movie-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1570337\/\">Macbeth<\/a> (2010) with Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood is a Stalinesque version of the play, with the three Witches as a trio of creepy hospital nurses. Not rated, but for older viewers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Titus-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Directed by Julie Taymor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120866\/\">Titus<\/a> (1999) \u2013 a film version of <i>Titus Andronicus<\/i>, with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and Jessica Lange as Tamora \u2013 is terrific. Rated R.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tempest-movie-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Taymor\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1274300\/\">The Tempest<\/a> (2010), a plot twist is a gender change: Prospero is Prospera, played by Helen Mirren. 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