Here’s a collection of videos about Shakespeare and his plays. Most of them are rather funny and make a great opener for a lesson on Shakespeare’s plays:
The curse of Macbeth is an fun fact video about the supposed curse of Macbeth: Actors and other cast and crew members saying “Macbeth” in a theatre outside the performance bring upon themselves a curse…
The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) performs the essential parts Shakespeare’s plays and thereby reduces the lenght notably to a matter of minutes. They make sense more towards the end of a unit on Shakespeare, because the students most likely wouldn’t understand the jokes and scenes refered to. There are a lot of plays online, here’ s Macbeth…
BBC Animated Versions are also often to be found online. This one (also Macbeth) is subtitled, so it’s easier to understand for students. The animated versions might be more suitable for lower grade students, students in higher classes might find them childish and prefer “real versions”…
Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) and Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) perform this sketch about the … challenging parts of a Shakespearean play 
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This on is admittedly my personal favorite: A trailer for the fictive adaptation of Hamlet featuring the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger…
There are many more videos on and around Shakespeare out there, here’s a link to the Simpsons version of Hamlet (I couldn’t find it on youtube and wordpress does not support the site I found it on).
There are also a lot of websites and webquests on Shakespeare online, one you can find here.
Also, there is an Episode of BBC’s Doctor Who, where the Doctor and his companion travel back in time to see an original Shakespeare play. The episode contains many a quote from Shakespeare’s plays and in my opinion depicts Elizabethan England quite interesting, so you could use it for higher grade students who have gained some experience with William Shakepeare and his plays. Here’s the preview…
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