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Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday with Storyboard That!
Celebrate Shakespeare

Storyboard That is celebrating the life and work of “The Bard”. William Shakespeare brought entertainment to the Globe Theatre and beyond in the late sixteenth century. Many of his greatest plays are still being taught in school, performed on stage, and made into movie adaptations over four hundred years later. The exact date of birth is unknown, but is remembered as April 23, 1564, the same day he died 52 years later.

Some regard Shakespeare as the ultimate playwright, a supreme wordsmith, or even a complete fraud. Shakespeare had a rivalry with Christopher Marlowe, and some scholars believe that Shakespeare did not actually write everything that is attributed to him.

The works that have been attributed to Shakespeare include 38 plays, six long poems, and 154 sonnets. Shakespeare often wrote in iambic pentameter – a rhythmic meter with five feet of iambs, or two syllables, first unstressed, second stressed. His plays are truly long works of dramatic poetry!

Celebrate the life and work of The Bard with literary activities using storyboards. Recreate his stories, his characters, his insults, and more on Storyboard That.

Plot Diagram

With all the twists and turns in Shakespeare’s plays, it can be hard to keep track of what happens. Use a plot diagram to show the five act structure that Shakespeare follows.

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The plot diagram is an immensely helpful graphic organizer to show the parts of the main storyline. So often in Shakespeare plays, particularly his comedies, subplots overlap and the main thrust of the story can be overshadowed. Depict the main events of the play with a plot diagram for a concise summary.
http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/five-act-diagram—a-midsummer-night’s-dream

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Tragic Hero
Shakespeare has written both comedy and tragedy, and some of his most memorable heroes, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, are tragic heroes. Tragic heroes are people the audience can feel for, pity, and even love to hate. Richard III is an example, who has all the Aristotelian attributes of a tragic hero: harmartia, hubris, peripeteia, anagnorisis, nemesis, and catharsis.

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http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/kristy-littlehale/the-tragedy-of-richard-iii–tragic-hero


Character Map

Characters are the focus of drama. The (mis)adventures of the heroes, lovers, villains, and all of the others tell the story and make us laugh and cry. Trouble is, sometimes there are many people to keep track of – plus, so often characters belong to an important group or change allegiances or make an astounding discovery that is essential to the plot. Use a character map to note important details and important changes as you read a Shakespeare play.
http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/characters-r-j

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Shakespearean Vocabulary

Shakespeare crafted amazing insults, moving speeches, hilarious dialogue, and more with the words of the English language. Shakespeare also wrote four hundred years ago, in a time when English was very different than today. Some people dismiss Shakespeare’s work because they have a difficult time following the text, but all they really need is some help with vocabulary. Use a spider map to illustrate some of unfamiliar language to make it easier to read through or watch a Shakespeare play.
http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/shakespearean-vocabulary

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William Shakespeare remains one of the greatest English poets of all time. Celebrate his life and his writing by reading a sonnet, watching a movie-adaptation of a tragedy, enacting one of his comedies with your friends, or by performing a literary activity with Storyboard That!

The teacher authors at Storyboard That have written teacher guides on their favorite Shakespeare works. Use any of the storyboards in these teacher guides directly, or as templates for your own activities. Have fun while commemorating one of the greatest English writers.


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