Shakespeare Puzzles

Subject: English Literature
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 5126

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Macbeth
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Merchant of Venice
• Hamlet
• Othello
• Henry IV Part 1
• Romeo and Juliet
• Henry V
• The Tempest
• Julius Ceasar
• Twelfth Night
• King Lear

Puzzles are an excellent way to encourage concentration, specific literacy and close textual study. Each play has two crosswords and two wordsearches, but the second of each is more difficult. Students should not be set both crosswords as the levels are to support educational discrimination. (The answers to the booklet is useful for homework, cover lesson, extension activities or as a change of pace. Answers supplied.