Brief Summary

• Visit Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet to read the Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare for Macbeth.

• Macbeth Summary by Matthew Monroe.

• Read the Lynch Multimedia adaptation of Macbeth.

Read the Play

• Coming Eventually! ~ read the play as cut for performance for the Clover Park High School Drama Club production of "The Scottish Play" (November 18-21, 1999).  Our study guide for the play will include digitized scenes from our production linked to the script.

• Emanuel White's excellent Macbeth study guide.  Includes the text of the play with hyperlinks to definitions, graphics, and summaries.   Heavily frame dependent.

• Macbeth Plugged.  Another annotated on-line version of the tragedy.  Heavily frame dependent.

• MIT Complete Works of Shakespeare

• Shakespeare by Individual Studies ~ Macbeth

Listen to the Play

• Wired for Books presents Macbeth in RealAudio starring Mark Mann as Macbeth and Laura Lee Parrotti as Lady Macbeth.
  • Act 1 
  • Act 2 
  • Act 3 
  • Act 4 
  • Act 5

Discuss the Play

• Surfing with the Bard Discussion Zone

Lesson Plans

• Surfing with the Bard's Teacher Zone
  • Read "I have no words..." Kids, Voice, and Violence for some ideas on teaching Macbeth.  Be sure to download the Illinois Shakespeare Festival Folio Font before reading the essay.

• Shakespeare Magazine's Teaching Resource
  • Macbeth 1.4: Catching the Beats of the Scene by Martha Harris
  • Confusion’s Masterpiece: Duncan’s Death Discovered by Rex Gibson
  • Hell Is Murky: Lady Macbeth's Decline by Christopher Renino

• Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute
  • "Double, double, toil and trouble": A Dual Exploration of Macbeth
  • It's Elementary!: Stomping and Romping with Shakespeare
  • The Tragedy of ?
  • Macbeth: What's Up with the Crime Scene?

• KIKO Lesson Plans (Join Today)
  • Cutting Macbeth by Mike LoMonico

• Unit Plan for Macbeth by Jennifer Tanner from KidReach Reading Center.

• 1995-1996 NEH/Folger Shakespeare Institute: Shakespeare Examined through Performance Recipe Book

Related Links

• Shakespeare Illustrated's Macbeth Gallery

• Star Wars Macbeth: Macduff Strikes Back ~ Do not miss this one!  Students from Glen Ridge High School created a seventeen minute video for their English class in 1997 and have made it available to the rest of us in both QuickTime and RealPlayer formats.  This is most definitely one of my favorites!

• Macbeth: Explained in Modern English ~ This student created site contains the text, scene summaries, essays, character sketches and more.

• To Strut and Fret Upon the Stage: Theatrical Interpretation of Sources for Macbeth by Joseph Locket.

• Enjoying Macbeth by Ed Friedlander, M.D.

• Birnam Wood on the Net ~ This student guide to Macbeth includes a great "Images" section.

• Macbeth 2000: A Multimedia Rock Musical ~ Check out the production photos.  I would have liked to have seen this one!

• Clothing of the Ancient Celts-Scotland, 1100-1800 AD

• From The Library of Congress' American Memory series
  • Today in History July 25 ~ Macbeth
  • Federal Theatre Project Collection The Play that Electrified Harlem