Shakespeare’s online riches

Simon McKenzie

By Simon McKenzie
Community contribution / May 27, 2016

Q. I’m teaching Shakespeare this year, any ideas for great digital resources?

In the 1999 comedy Blackadder: Back and Forth, a time travelling Edmund literally runs into William Shakespeare.

After requesting an ...

This story appeared in the June 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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