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The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well have fascinated scholars for centuries for, among other aspects, the ways they resist an obvious genre classification. While these stories of love and familial recognition bear elements of romantic conflict, Shakespeare integrated aspects of the comedic and tragic as well in these complex works. Bloom's How to Write about Shakespeare's Romances preps readers for writing effective essays about these plays, with bib...

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theorie...

New revised 2020 version Set text for OCR GCSE 9-1 Drama exam This play tells the tragic true story of Dan Nolan, a teenage boy who went missing on the 1st January 2002 after a night out fishing with his best friends. The play explores the mystery of Dan’s disappearance and the tragic events that occurred that night; raising issues concerning personal safety and the importance of looking out for each other. A verbatim play, it uses only the words of his family, friends and the Detective Supe...

A new series of collections of short plays and extracts from plays chosen to help maximise students’ GCSE Drama and Standard Grade achievement. This rich resource will also support the Year 9 objectives of the English Framework. A selection of extracts and short plays chosen to help students understand the similarities and differences between contemporary and classic drama across different countries. Students will learn how cultural and personal issues have been dramatised over time by...

This work features an hour-long play that deals with the nervous breakdown of an adolescent boy through drug and alcohol misuse. It is a highly lyrical and poetic play that juxtaposes the lyricism of the language with the darkness of the experiences being represented. This is a play that grabs the reader.

Nat Field is a young actor who has travelled from America to rehearse and perform as Puck in a Midsummer Night's Dream, at the new Globe Theatre in London. As rehearsals intensify, Nat's health begins to fail and soon the rest of the cast are horrified to hear that he's been rushed into hospital with Bubonic Plague! Something strange happens, and as Nat's friends worry about him, he is experiencing an amazing adventure with the King of Shadows, William Shakespeare himself, and perfiorming in the...

This facsimile edition is a complete reproduction of the most reliable of the medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales-the Hengwrt Manuscript (or Peniarth 392 D), now in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Because it is to serve as the basic text of the Tales for the projected multivolume Variorum Edition of Chaucer's complete works, much deliberation was given to the choice of the Hengwrt Manuscript. Scribed in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, it is...

GCSE Drama is changing, from September 2016 there will be a new GCSE Drama qualification covering the revised criteria and 9-1 grading system. Our brand new published resources are designed to support teachers deliver the content in a practical and engaging way and help students of all abilities prepare for the new exam. 1) Tailor-made for the new specification New resources written specifically for the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Drama specification, to cover all components of the new qualification....

The first textbook available that is specifically designed to support WJEC GCSE Drama - Unit 1; and is endorsed by WJEC. It provides complete support for the practical unit for your students. It offers students a unique suite of ideas, activities, information and inspiration to support DR1 Devised Practical Performance. It provides DR1 advice, knowledge and skills in a colourful and highly accessible way. // It makes explicit connections between what students learn and how they can apply thi...

An exquisite collection of Shakespeare's most beautiful and profound sayings on love.An exquisite collection of Shakespeare's most beautiful and profound sayings on love. In this beautifully illustrated three-dimensional unfolding book, which comes in its own slipcase, are Shakespeare's most famous lines of love poetry from plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream, making this the perfect gift for someone special.

In this new edition the original images of the actual accident wreckage are included. It also includes numerous updates and improvements on the first. 'This book was enthralling from start to finish. Not only does it give a clear insight into how Too Much Punch for Judy evolved, it reminds you of the energy and integrity true drama can bring. Without exaggerating Mark Wheeller's page turner inspired me to give up my leadership duties and get back into the drama studio with my amazing students....

"Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time." -Helena Bonham Carter A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum of plays and sonnets to mark each day of the year, whether it's a scene from Hamlet to...

Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books