NEW! The North Face of Shakespeare

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The North Face of Shakespeare is the perfect resource for all teachers interested in active approaches to the plays. The book:

• features over 200 activities, exercises and games for teaching Shakespeare – a wealth of practical advice and ideas for teachers
• takes the active approach to teaching so popular with the users of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series and explores the origins and value of practical work on Shakespeare
• brings together the ideas and techniques of a wide range of practitioners and draws on the author's many years of experience in the field.

The North Face of Shakespeare argues that successful active work arises directly from the extraordinary dramatic power of Shakespearee's writing – from its language and poetry and its use of narrative and character.

The book invites teachers and drama practitioners to think of their classroom as a stage, with their students as both actors and audience.

It proposes that the text can be presented as drama – whether in quite simple ways sitting at desks or in open space in the classroom or workshop, the text can be spoken and performed by every learner in the room. The aim is for students to take away an engaged and secure understanding of that text to use in their own reading and study.

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The North Face of Shakespeare
ISBN: 978 0 521 75636 5

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