In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day. In his life, Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays and over 150 short and long poems. Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into three main categories: the comedies, the histories, and the tragedies. The following from NCTE and ReadWriteThink.org provide more resources on Shakespeare’s plays.
Comedies
- The Perspective of Comedy: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
- Twelfth Night and the Meaning of Shakespearean Comedy
- Censorship, Anti-Semitism, and The Merchant of Venice
Histories
- “The Villainy You Teach Me . . .”: Shakespeare and AP English Literature
- Richard III, Shakespeare, and History
- A Comparative Study: Macbeth and Richard III
Tragedies
- Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
- An Introduction to Julius Caesar Using Multiple-Perspective Universal Theme Analysis
- Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare
As author Ben Jonson wrote of him, Shakespeare is “not of an age, but for all time.”