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This comprehensive teaching resource explores William Shakespeare’s life, early background, family, and historical context. It provides structured information about his most famous plays, literary genres (tragedy, comedy, history), and his powerful use of language, verse, and iambic pentameter. Students learn how Shakespeare’s characters and themes like love, jealousy, ambition, betrayal, and fate remain timeless. It includes detailed information pages, a cloze text, true/false statements, vocabulary definitions, comprehension questions, a matching task, and a full answer key. Suitable for secondary English literature classes (Grades 8–11), this material is ideal for curriculum units on English drama, Renaissance literature, theatre history, British authors, Elizabethan theatre, and language evolution. Perfect for international and German-speaking teachers seeking cross-cultural and bilingual teaching resources. Covers language skills, literary analysis, reading comprehension, and literature-based vocabulary development.
Includes: 4 information pages, comprehension tasks, language practice, summary tasks, and full solutions.

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