Shakespeare

Project task

For this Home Learning Project you will be creating a one page factsheet suitable for people your age about William Shakespeare. To complete the project you need to carry out your own research and include information on:

  • Shakespeare’s early life
  • the theatre in Shakespeare’s time
  • Shakespeare’s Plays
  • Modern Shakespeare

Your teacher will be looking at how well you have researched and understood the topic.

Books in the library

Look at the following shelf numbers in the library to find books to help you with your research:

Shelf numbers

  • 792.09 History of the theatre
  • 822.33 William Shakespeare
  • 942.02 The Tudors
  • 942.055 Elizabethan England

You can search the Shakespeare Reading List in Oliver to find more books and websites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our online databases

Britannica School contains images, videos and information about Shakespeare’s life and times. Click the link in E-LIBRARY on the left-hand side of this page to use it.

Suggested websites

Shakespeare in the classroom

BBC Famous People: William Shakespeare

Britannica William Shakespeare

Q-files William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company Shakespeare’s life

Shakespeare Online Shakespeare’s plays

Shakespeare’s Globe Shakespeare fact sheets

Swanshurst English Department documents

Year 7 Shakespeare Research HLP
Year 7 Shakespeare Creative HLP