Shakespeare's Comedies: Shakespeare Workshop

Each book in this series, written by a range of experienced teachers, contains five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies:

• Much Ado About Nothing
• Taming of the Shrew            
• The Tempest             
• Twelfth Night
• As You Like It

There is a wide range of activities for each play providing abundant opportunities for activities which allow students to work towards a thorough understanding of the plays as theatre and literature, towards a range of interpretations of the plays and to explore ways in which a script can be transformed into a stage play.

Most plays include activities dealing with

• Introduction to the play
• language
• staging and performance
• character
• plot
• themes and issues
• dramatic structure

The comedies selected are more suited to senior secondary students, but can be used with middle secondary.

In addition to the five plays there is a separate section on staging Shakespeare's plays.

All activities are photocopiable.