Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Teaching ideas
Here are some ideas for how you could use this resource with students:
 Use the table of character names as a pre-teaching activity. Can students plot the relationships between the characters before
reading the play? Award points for inventiveness and/or accuracy (or students could even mark their own, using the answer sheet).
As a creative extension to this task, throw in a few more details, and see if they can work out what the plot is too.
 As you are teaching the play (or for revision), encourage students to annotate with key quotations relating to a particular theme.
 Add further colour-coded elements to the key, to denote key themes etc.
 Blow up to A3 (or bigger), and use as an interactive classroom display – with students adding new details each week, following on
from each lesson.
 Use for recall revision. Give students 2-5 minutes to look at the answer sheet. They should then hide it, and using the blank ‘Who’s
who’ sheet, write down as much as they can remember.
 As a revision activity, add character names and key quote/s relating to their character in each box.
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Orsino,
Duke of Illyria
Olivia,
a Countess
Antonio
Cesario,
Orsino’s page
Viola
recently shipwrecked
Maria,
her gentlewoman
Sea-captain
Sebastian,
her missing brother
Fabian
Sir Andrew
Aguecheek
Feste,
a clown
Malvolio,
her steward
Valentine Curio
Sir Toby Belch,
her uncle
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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Who’s who?
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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Answers
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