History 1

Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, and neo-Classical drama - plays, playwrights, and pictures.

Brief description of each historical period in the history of drama.

Fantastically rich portal to all things theatrical - plays, musicals, scripts from Greek classics to Evita, theatre history, stagecraft, Broadway, movies, and television.

History 2

Introductions to Greek and Roman stagecraft - with pictures, maps, and plans, plus bibliography.

York Mystery plays website - with notes, pictures, and downloadable audio recordings.

Theatre - History

Interactive Gothic melodrama game - plus plenty of Web links.

Activities 1

Lesson plans, monologues, photos, how to write a play.

Quotes from playwrights, improvisation games, links, books - a fan site.

Games

Ideas for classroom and outdoor drama activities.

Activities 2

Improvisation and games, theatre design, acting, puppetry, plus some very good links to costume pages with pictures.

Historical costumes, interactive dressing, hats, accessories, colours and fabrics, design kits, and how to make a Spanish farthingale! Very rich site.

Another very rich site, with links to all things related to costumes and clothing, even ancient dress. Be prepared for some dead links.

Activities 4

Study guide on drama, including role play exercises, mime and gesture, silly voices, games, improvisation, storytelling.

Schemes of work, notes, exercises, plot summaries, quizzes, cartoons, word games.

Post-1914: Priestley

Study guide to the play - exercises, social background, playing detective.

Biography, historical background, and Priestley's other writings.

Plays

History of theatre in Britain and other countries - articles and pictures. Very rich site, but watch out for lots of annoying pop-ups.

Fantastically rich portal to all things theatrical - plays, musicals, scripts from Greek classics to Evita, theatre history, stagecraft, Broadway, movies, and television.