RIYL Shakespeare

Annotating Shakespeare.pdf

Annotating Shakespeare handout from Western High School, 2009

Exposure by Mal Peet (Othello)

Ophelia by Lisa Klein (Hamlet)

Romeo's Ex by Lisa Fiedler

Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper

Street Love by Walter Dean Myers (Romeo and Juliet)

John Marsden's Hamlet

Something rotten: a Horatio Wilkes mystery / Alan Gratz is based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

Enter Three Witches: a story of Macbeth by Caroline Cooney

Lisa Klein - MacBeth's Daughter

The Juliet Club (which refers to Henry V and other Shakespeare plays, as well as Romeo and Juliet

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty is a retelling of Much Ado About Nothing

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

Ophelia by Lisa Klein

King of Shadows by Susan Cooper

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

the Shakespeare Stealer series by Gary Blackwood

Romeo's Ex by Lisa Fiedler

Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper

Ariel by Grace Tiffany

Enter 3 Witches by Caroline Cooney

Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story, by Lisa Fiedler

Rough Magic by Caryl Mullin

Othello by Julius Lester

Wings, by E. D. Baker

The Third Witch: A novel, by Rebecca Reisert


Online Resources


Outstanding Links Related to Shakespeare, Elizabethan, and Renaissance

Studies - http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/renaissance.htm


Renaissance Research: Class Website -

http://www.teacheroz.com/renaissance.htm#various


Renaissance Webquest

-http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/HallOfFame/renaissance/webquestnet.htm


Life in Elizabethan England - http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html


Shakespeare's Life and Times -

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/index.html


Queen Elizabeth I Research - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm


Elizabethan Costume Web site - http://www.elizabethancostume.net/


Elizabethan England Research: Class Research Page -

http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html


High Renaissance Art Web site -

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/high-renaissance.html


Food in Shakespeare's England - http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1774


General Characteristics of the Renaissance -

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html


Shakespeare and His Works - http://absoluteshakespeare.com/


Artchives - Renaissance Art Links -

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/renaissance.html


Music History: Renaissance -

http://ipl2server-2.ischool.drexel.edu/div/mushist/ren/index.html


Music in the Renaissance: Powerpoint Lesson -

http://faculty.ccri.edu/jamante/documents/Renaissance_1750_course.ppt


The Renaissance in Italy - http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Renn.html


Renaissance Theatre: England -

http://www3.northern.edu/wild/th100/CHAPT13B.HTM


Shakespeare's Globe - http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html


BBC's History Pages - "Macbeth (c1005-1057)" -- Biographical information on the "real" Macbeth. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml


Internet Shakespeare Editions "Life and Times" page - To introduce students to the world Shakespeare lived in. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/


Shakespeare Resource Center - Collected links for resources helpful in the study of Shakespeare. Info on The Globe Theater, Elizabethan life, and more! http://www.bardweb.net/


Renaissance: The Elizabethan World - Many topics are included in this exploration of Elizabethan England. http://elizabethan.org/


Knighthood and Orders of Chivalry - A history of knighthood and all things related to chivalry.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/


History of the Health Sciences, Links page - A list of links for medical history by the American Association for the History of Medicine. http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm

Link Back to RIYL Book Lists Table of Contents. Link back: "To Genrefy or not to Genrefy?" Workshop, CSLA 2020 In the City of Industry.Last used with students at Western High School, 2010 by mrsgteach@yahoo.com