Teaching Shakespeare

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.

Teaching Shakespeare: A Handbook for Teachers

Teaching Shakespeare has been a major contribution to the knowledge and expertise of all teachers of Shakespeare from primary upwards for two decades. This full-colour second edition is in a larger format, updated to reflect modern classroom practice. It includes new contributions by leading practitioners from Shakespeare’s Globe, the Shakespeare Schools Festival, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Cambridge School Shakespeare editorial team. Teaching Shakespeare makes explicit the ‘Active Shakespeare’ principles which underpin Cambridge School Shakespeare and includes activities and advice to help teachers develop their existing good practice, making the learning of Shakespeare valuable and enjoyable for all involved.

• Written by the late Rex Gibson, teacher and author who published well over one hundred articles and reviews on Shakespeare and teaching Shakespeare and was awarded the inaugural Shakespeare’s Globe Sam Wanamaker Award ‘for the most outstanding contribution by an individual or organisation to the world's knowledge of Shakespeare’.
• New foreword with contributions from leading practitioners including Shakespeare scholars Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson, Fiona Banks of Shakespeare’s Globe and Ruth Brock and Dominic Fitch of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, adding their invaluable insights and experiences of teaching Shakespeare.
• An improved, larger-format edition with updated references and produced in an attractive new full-colour design with photographs throughout, with suggested activities and talking points clearly highlighted.
• Practical examples are given from the plays most frequently used in schools, with principles shown to apply across the Shakespearean canon.