Shakespeare Projects

Additional projects for your Shakespeare Unit Study

Ideas for Shakespeare Projects

• Perform one part of a Shakespeare play with a few actors. Video your performance.
  
  
• Translate a part of a Shakespeare play from Elizabethean English to modern English.
  
  
• Write a favorite scene from a modern movie as a play. Use the language of the Elizabethean era.
  
  
• Look up the dimensions of the globe theatre. Walk out the area of the stage and audience in your neighborhood.
  
  
• Compare Disney and Shakespeare. Many of the plays Shakespeare wrote had older versions that were well known before he wrote his own version. Consider a well known tale such as Cinderella or Snow White. There are many versions of the story, some of them quite old. However, once Walt Disney studios made the story into a movie, it became the "official" version in the public mind. What other versions are there of one of the plays you are studying? How did Shakespeare change the play?
  
  
• Modify a common story like The Three Little Pigs. Retell the story, but weave contemporary issues into your version. For instance, you could include current political leaders, celebrities in the news, or current legislation being debated. How much of your version would make sense to your descendants five hundred years from now?
  
  
• Take the last suggestion to an even higher level. Alter a Shakespeare play to include at least three current events.
  
  
• A tragedy is defined as a bad outcome caused by a character flaw in the protagonist (good guy, or main character.) Write a paper explaining the character flaw and the tragic outcome.
  
  
• Illustrate the climax of a play using any artistic media.
  
  
• Make a timeline of Shakespeare's life with at least five personal events. Also include at least three social/political events that occured in the same era.

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