A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School: 50 Lesson Plans using Drama

As well as providing practical guidance to classroom delivery and performance, techniques, approaches and attitudes, this handbook also promotes learning outcomes linked to literacy targets and cross-curricular units of learning.

The central chapters of the book form a comprehensive cross-curricular unit of work on four specific plays - The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet - providing background notes and historical facts linked to the plays, along with comprehensive schemes of work for immediate implementation and ideas for generating performance.