This booklet is designed to be an enjoyable, interesting and challenging introduction to Shakespeare's plays. Based on one of the English and Media Centre’s most popular publications, it has been completely re-written to include up-dated and expanded approaches to the play. These enable teachers to offer different sorts of task to suit the particular interests and abilities of their students. The imaginative and carefully thought-out range of written, oral, drama and media activities ensures that all students will be able to find something to support and excite them in their study of the play.

Throughout this all new study guide for Romeo and Juliet there is a variety of stimulating and accessible approaches to producing readings of the play. These include: alternative readings; guidance in annotating a text; cutting and pasting print images; using diagrams and montages; suggestions about ways of reading aloud, performance and staging. These materials could be used for whole class, individual, pair and small group work. They are designed to help students work with confidence on the text and its possible readings both by themselves and with each other.

Providing a usefully diverse set of activities to facilitate study of the play, the booklet has been trialled and evaluated by large numbers of English teachers who have found a whole class set an invaluable resource when studying Romeo and Juliet with their students.

A4 88pp ISBN 1 875136 18 5

An English Centre title published in Australia by Chalkface Press

Review

"Stunning classroom resources to challenge, even excite, young people of all abilities and surprise those first meeting Shakespeare ... fosters enthusiasm for the whole play's theatricality through active engagement with it".

Brian Slough, Times Educational Supplement, February 1994

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