Background materials:
Mr. Osborne on English Renaissance
Michael Wood video on Shakespeare
Michael Wood's Duty of Poets (3rd video)
Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Hamlet "To be or not to be" in original pronunciation
Shakespeare's Life in a Few Minutes
Free streaming Shakespeare in Love if you have Amazon prime
Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man"
Essentials:
Shakespeare in Love and Sonnet 18
A sonnet within Romeo and Juliet
Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn's music and Max Reinhardt's film
Pyramus & Thisbe by the Beatles
Midsummer Night's Dream animated
Puck puts potion on Lysander's eyes
Othello:
Henry IV, Part 1:
Henry IV, Part 1 film of entire play
Henry IV, part 2 trailer with Tom Hiddleston as Hal - stealing the crown
Henry V St. Crispin's Day speech by Sir Lawrence Olivier
Falstaff pretends to be Henry IV
Hal's "Ceremony" speech before the Battle of Agincourt
All of Henry V as a music video
St. Crispin's Day speech as a music videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_IBbvcRao
As You Like It
The Tempest
Perspectives on The Tempest
Performance of a scene from Othello by Mauricio, Alex, Angela, and Hafsa
Miscellaneous