Shakespeare's Tragedies: Shakespeare Workshop

This volume, written by a range of experienced teachers, contains five of the most popular of Shakespeare's tragedies.

• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Othello
• Anthony and Cleopatra

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
• dramatic structure

In addition to the activities for each of the plays there is  a separate section on staging Shakespeare's plays.

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

All activities are photocopiable.