King Lear (Third edition)

Cambridge School Shakespeare

Cambridge School Shakespeare offers an active approach to classroom Shakespeare, enabling students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. This dramatic experience is at the heart of the series with students encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.

King Lear

Substantially revised and extended, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive stagecraft, writing, language, characters and themes features. Expanded end-notes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'King Lear' and Shakespeare, and extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference.

• A running synopsis of action is included for every page of script.
• 'Stagecraft' boxes give information on stage designs, directors' approaches and actors views on past performances and offer opportunities for students to explore and contribute their own ideas on staging.
• 'Write about it' boxes give information about writing about Shakespeare and suggest activities to help students with their own writing in response to the play. Students will be helped to translate discussion into high quality writing; look at 'points of dispute' in the play; structure various forms of writing, including essays; write responsively and sensitively about the play; provide evidence from the play to support their arguments.
• Further boxed features focus on exploration of 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes'.
• Extended glossaries aligned with the play script for ease of reference provide clear explanation of key terms.
• Each act is followed by 'Looking back' sections with further notes, illustrations and activities.
• Comprehensive and extended end-notes with illustrations and activities are linked to the boxed features and give further information and opportunities for exploration of stagecraft, language, characters and themes.
• New 'Writing about' sections focus on writing about Shakespeare in general and on the play in particular.
• A rich selection of exciting colour photos with information on performances appear throughout.