Category Archives: Shakespeare for schools
How to Teach Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
BBC Animated Tales Romeo and Juliet. I love this soft Botticelli style which makes the connections with Tudor theatre being our renaissance art revolution. Watch the video here.
Shakespeare Certificate of Performance
If you have completed a Shakespeare in a Suitcase Tale, congratulations on putting on your play. We hope you had fun and enjoyed the magical story that was told. Click here to get the bigger image
What Was Shakespeare’s Theatre Like?
“There is only one way to experience Shakespeare’s plays and that is live, you have to feel them as an audience or as a performer. This is the best way to understand them. We provide these resources ideas as possible … Continue reading
BBC Education The life of Shakespeare
“There is only one way to experience Shakespeare’s plays and that is live, you have to feel them as an audience or as a performer. This is the best way to understand them. We provide these resources ideas as possible … Continue reading
Life of Shakespeare
This is a good listen. It explores Shakespeare as the genius from the midlands and clears the ideas of the plays being written by someone else. Enjoy. Listen here.
In defence of Shakespeare’s difficult bits Tom Sutcliffe
Reading this article by Tom Sutcliffe I agreed and then thought well, we actually adapt the plays to introduce them to children!? Our hope is, I suppose, that once they understand the fun of the plays as theatre shows they … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Late Plays – Recorded at the Globe’s Playhouse
Andrew Marr presents a special edition of Start the Week, celebrating the later life and works of William Shakespeare. Recorded at the Globe’s candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the actor Simon Russell Beale and Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole discuss the late … Continue reading
The Shakespeare Algorithm
Here is an interesting article from The New Yorker by Alastair Gee. The original article is here. In 1727, a writer and editor named Lewis Theobald was preparing to unveil “Double Falsehood,” a tragicomedy that he said was based on … Continue reading
“Make trivial price of serious things we have”
Sometimes I like to allow myself to be distracted by things vaguely related to the work I am supposed to be doing. Often the distraction takes the form of interesting facts about Shakespeare. I find it very satisfying, for example, … Continue reading
Knock Knock. Who’s There?
Everytime I work with the words of Shakespeare I am astounded about how often you find bits of Shakespeare in everyday life. Whether these idioms were coined by Shakespeare or simply written down by him, his influence is astounding. Ever … Continue reading
