Brief Summary

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

• Romeo & Juliet Summary by Matthew Monroe.

Read the Play

• Shakespeare by Individual Studies ~ Romeo & Juliet

• The Internet Shakespeare Editions edited by Michael Best from The University of Victoria
  • Quarto 1
  • Quarto 2
  • Folio

• MIT Complete Works of Shakespeare

Discuss the Play

• Surfing with the Bard Discussion Zone

Lesson Plans

• Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute
  • "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love": Types of Love in Romeo and Juliet
  • Folded Paper Brainstorming
  • Jottings from Juliet
  • Recreating the Capulets' Feast
  • The Full Bodied Romeo
  • The Tragedy of ?

• Unit Plan for Romeo and Juliet by Sinead Waters from the KidReach Reading Center.

• Romeo & Juliet Web Guide by Joel Littauer from the SCORE Project.

• Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story: Time Stands Still in Literature by Cheryl E. Merritt from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

• 10th Grade Honors English R&J lessons by HighWired.com Network teachers Jeffrey Ryback and Tom Voegtle
  • UNIT 1: The World of Elizabethan Theater
  • UNIT 2: Language and Style, or, What are Romeo and Juliet Saying?
  • UNIT 4: Final Paper on Romeo and Juliet

• William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet: The Contemporary Film, the Classic Play ~ a Random House Teacher's Guide.

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

Related Links

• Shakespeare Illustrated's Romeo & Juliet Gallery

• A Short Course on Romeo & Juliet by Michael Best.

• Study Guide for Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story by Paul Brian.

• Online Exploration of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet ~ Laguna Middle School's website is "designed to assist middle level educators and students in understanding and analyzing this classic play."

• Shakespeare Bulletin Review of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival's  Romeo & Juliet by Justin Shaltz.

• Consumed by Fire by Scott Walters from the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.