William Shakespeare Notebooking Pages (Includes 75+ FREE Printables)

Download 75+ FREE Shakespeare notebooking pages based on William Shakespeare’s plays! From Romeo and Juliet to Macbeth and much more!!

I can remember sitting in my 12th grade AP English class. When I initially saw the syllabus and discovered that we would be studying Shakespeare, I was less than thrilled.

I had subscribed to the common thought of my teenage peers that learning about Shakespeare and reading through his plays would not only be a daunting task, but that frankly, it would be downright boring.

However, I quickly discovered that if you have a teacher who knows how to teach Shakespeare, it can be VERY interesting and, dare I say, exciting!

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I want my children to have the same eye-opening experience I had with reading Shakespeare’s work. Minus the ill, preconceived notion that it would be too hard and too boring.

I want them to enjoy Shakespeare! I want them to be able to identify and even memorize and recite some of the many famous passages from Shakespeare’s plays!

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

Needless to say, the book, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, definitely caught my eye! Written by internationally acclaimed playwright, Ken Ludwig, the book showcases the method Ludwig used to teach Shakespeare passages to his own children!

His approach to learning Shakespeare has been described as “a foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare” and his book is referred to as “a teaching primer for parents and a manual for making Shakespeare manageable and fun for kids.”

Ludwig’s method begins with the memorization of short passages and progresses to longer, more complex passages; 25 passages in total.

As you memorize the passages, you also learn more about Shakespeare’s life and time period, his choice of words, and the plots and characters found in the plays.

Ludwig also explores the lessons taught through Shakespeare’s play in such a way that children can remember and utilize for years to come!   

Using Notebooking Pages to Learn Shakespeare

Through Ludwig’s process of memorizing passages, he suggested using quotation pages. These are free printable pages offered on the How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare website that present the passages in short easy-to-read, rhythmic chunks.

The idea of using the quotation pages sparked an idea that I knew my kids would enjoy doing along with reading the quotation pages…notebooking pages!

I quickly got to work and created both fully-lined  and half-lined notebooking pages for each of Shakespeare’s plays!

Yep, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet; they’re all there!

I created the printables as a way to help my children not only learn the passages from Shakespeare’s plays, but also as a way express what they have learned artistically!

(Scroll further to download the FREE Shakespeare notebooking pages!)

As they learn a passage, they not only copy the passage from the quotation page onto the bottom of the notebooking page. Hello, penmanship practice!

But, they also illustrate the passage on the upper portion of the page. Hello, imagery and art! I love when I can sneak extra “schooling” into activities that they already enjoy!

I am excited for my kids to continue learning passages from Shakespeare! And, I’m even more excited to have an awesome resource to guide me along the way!

What’s Included in the Shakespeare Download:

The FREE download contains over 75 pages! There are two pages for each of Shakespeare’s plays. The first is half-lined page and the second is a fully lined page. The following plays are included:

1. All’s Well That Ends Well
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. Antony and Cleopatra
4. As You Like It
5. Coriolanus
6. Cymbeline
7. Hamlet
8. Henry IV, Part 1
9. Henry IV, Part 2
10. Henry V
11. Henry VI, Part 1
12. Henry, VI, Part 2
13. Henry, VI, Part 3
14. Henry VIII
15. Julius Caesar
16. King John
17. King Lear
18. Love’s Labour’s Lost
19. Macbeth
20. Measure for Measure
21. Much Ado About Nothing
22. Othello
23. Pericles
24. Richard II
25. Richard III
26. Romeo and Juliet
27. The Comedy of Errors
28. The Merchant of Venice
29. The Merry Wives of Windsor
30. The Taming of the Shrew
31. The Temptest
32. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
33. The Two Noble Kinsmen
34. The Winter’s Tale
35. Timon of Athens
36. Titus Andronicus
37. Troilus and Cressida
38. Twelfth Night

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This post was originally published on April 19, 2016.