Hamlet

There’s a wrong way to use film in class. This lesson shows you how to avoid it—and teach thoughtful analysis!

Give students a real purpose for reading closely and creatively, and be amazed at what happens.

What happens when your students edit Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

Living inside the language of Clint Smith and Shakespeare, students examine fatherly advice, race, and growing up.

Don’t miss this juicy lesson on how to introduce students to the plot, setting, and characters of a play in a straightforward way so that quickly get inside the language of the play.

What does it mean to teach Hamlet the Folger way? Do you have to teach the whole play? What do scholars, teachers, and artists have to say about Hamlet?

How has Ophelia been reinvented in YA fiction and film?

Read Hamlet like it’s 1623!

What was it like to take Hamlet around the world in 2016?

Folger actors perform and analyze elements of Hamlet’s soliloquies.