Here are some videos from the National Shakespeare Competition

Helpful links for Shakespeare teachers

Here are some local theater's that often do Shakespeare and offer students discounts and/or student matinees:

Post 5 Theatre

Artists Repetory Theatre

Portland Center Stage

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival offers teacher and a student workshops, as well as discounted group tickets for school groups and school visits.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival main page

Oregon Shakespeare Festival education page

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers a number of programs for teachers and students. You will find them here:

Fogler Teach and Learn

The English Speaking Union is a non profit civic organization that offers a great student monologue and sonnet competition. Our local branch will be offering a scholarship to London next year for an Oregon teacher to study for three weeks, all expenses paid except for airfare. Ask me for a contact if you are interested in applying for the scholarship. You can find their main page for the competition here:

National Shakespeare Competition

RSC act 1 scene 3

RSC act 3 scene 2

RSC As You Like It act 3 scene 2

As You Like It: 1936 film

As You Like It-- A San Francisco Love Story

The RSC As You Like It act 3 scene 2

For middle school teachers

There are some great abridged editions of Shakespeare's plays called Sixty Minute Shakespeare that might work really well for middle school students. Click the titles below the check them out.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Twelfth Night

Much Ado About Nothing

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

There's even a 30 minute As You Like It.