You are welcome to use our study guides in your classroom, as preparation for attending a performance or while studying Shakespeare. If you reproduce any part or portion of a guide please credit the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and the individual author accordingly!
Some documents are ONLY an in-depth synopsis of the play as performed here at The Tavern and are labeled “synopsis”. Some documents are complete study guides for a performance at The Tavern or a study guide you can use in preparation for one of our in-class “playshops in performance” (in-class workshops). Every performance and playshop study guide has a synopsis of the play included. Check out the label for each if you are unsure. Some study guides have QCC’s or Georgia Performance Standards included for 9th or 10th grade.
Some study guides are in PDF form, some are in Microsoft Word Docs.
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If the title of the play you are studying is not here, we haven’t written it yet! Check back each season as we add more.
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All's Well that Ends Well
Hamlet
Hamlet Playshop in Performance
Henry IV part 1 (long and short synopsis)
Henry IV part 2 (long and short synopsis)
Henry V (long and show synopsis)
Henry V
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Playshop in Performance
Macbeth
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Playshop in Performance
Much Ado About Nothing
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet Playshop in Performance
Twelfth Night
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Synopsis
The Tempest Synopsis
The Winter’s Tale Synopsis
These three are specific to a study of the history plays:
What Every Modern American Needs to know about Shakespeare’s view on history, and who Holinshed was…….
What Every Elizabethan knew about their history and what we need to know now……..
An Excel Chart of genealogy surrounding the Henriad of Shakespeare (RII, Henry IV, pt 1&2, Henry V, Richard III)