This printable Shakespeare resource is designed as a reference guide for teachers. We have listed the major themes and motifs within Macbeth and provided examples of scenes where you can study them. This resource can be used across the Key Stages. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

This pack supports the RSC’s 2011 production of Macbeth, directed by Michael Boyd. The activities provided are specifically designed to support KS3-4 students (but can be adapted for younger students) studying or seeing the play, offering a deeper insight into the choices that can be explored through staging. The pack explores a variety of activities based around themes and these are designed to help you to plan your lessons: Activities explore: Macbeth's ambition; Malcolm, Banquo and Fleance; Macduff and his family; Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and What is it to be a man? Activities follow the RSC's active approach to learning about Shakespeare and are driven and guided by our rehearsal room practice. The pack also contains text based resources and key speeches from the play.

This printable Shakespeare teaching resource is designed as a reference guide for teachers. We have listed the major themes and motifs within King Lear by William Shakespeare and provided examples of scenes where you can study them.

Complete teachers' pack with classroom activities based on King Lear by William Shakespeare. The activities include: Creating a back story, Interpreting Act 1 Scene 2, Exploring the Fool. These teaching resources are based on Trevor Nunn's 2007 production of King Lear with the RSC.

This resource is a complete teachers' pack with classroom activities based on King Lear by William Shakespeare. The activities include: - Investigating design - Creating missing scenes - Exploring staging challenges Based on David Farr's 2010 production of King Lear with the RSC.

This printable handout or worksheet contains an engaging synopsis of Henry the Fifth for use by students and teachers, created by writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Suitable for Key Stage 2 onwards. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

This free, downloadable teaching resource is designed as a reference guide for teachers. We have listed the major themes and motifs within Henry V and provided examples of scenes where you can study them. Suitable for Key Stage 2 onwards. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

This printable information resource on Hamlet by William Shakespeare is brought to you by the RSC. Print it for your class to gain vital insight into the rehearsal process. The famous tragedy of Hamlet was brought to life for many audience members new to Shakespeare by director Gregory Doran's clear storytelling and familiar modern setting. For the show's programme, the Hamlet company created a Rehearsal Scrapbook detailing the different stages of production.

These free, downloadable teaching notes are created for teachers and leaders wishing to introduce their group to Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The activities were created directly from experience in Gregory Doran's rehearsal room. They have been designed for KS3 to KS5 students, but can be adapted for other ages. Activities explore: - The opening - Polonius' family - Rosencratz and Guildenstern - The Players - The graveyard - Osric - Should Hamlet fight?

The activities in this free Shakespeare teachers' pack are inspired by the rehearsal room process for a production of Hamlet. They have been designed with KS2 and KS3 students in mind, but can be adapted for other ages. Activities include: - Creating a musical character - Exploring the ghost story - Using everyday objects as props - Hamlet's relationship with Horatio Based on the Young People&'s Shakespeare Hamlet directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

This printable information resource is a reference guide for teachers. We have listed the major themes and motifs within The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare and provided examples of scenes where you can study them.

This pack supports the RSC’s 2009 production of The Comedy of Errors directed by Paul Hunter. The activities provided are specifically designed to support KS3-4 students studying or seeing the play, offering a deeper insight into the choices that can be explored through staging. The pack is divided up into 6 distinct sections designed to help you to plan your lessons: Performing a back-story; Confusion; Creating the twins; Using music to set a scene; Script-writing and Cross-curricula activities. There are activities within each section which follow the RSC's active approach to learning about Shakespeare and are driven and guided by our rehearsal room practice. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

A handout including a complete synopsis of The Comedy Of Errors. Suitable for Key Stage 2 onwards. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett discusses the queen known for her 'infinite variety'. This printable article can be used as a teaching resource in exploring the character and characterisation of Cleopatra both as a woman and as a leader . It first appeared in the show programme for the RSC's 2006 production of Antony and Cleopatra. Suitable for Key Stage 4 onwards. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

This printable teaching resource is an article which first appeared in the show programme for the RSC's 2006 production of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. Author Tom Holland describes the world in which the play takes place.

This printable resource contains an interview transcript about Gregory Doran's production of Antony & Cleopatra. Use this in class to give students an insight into staging and analysis techniques. Director Gregory Doran talks to Carol Chillington Rutter about his production of Antony and Cleopatra. Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of English Literature at Warwick University. This is a transcription of the Director Talk event on 18 April 2006 which took place in front of an audience at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Using the activity described in this teaching pack, teachers will lead students to work as an ensemble to investigate Antony's relationships with Enobarbus and Cleopatra, in Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. This classroom activity is based on Gregory Doran's 2006 production of Antony and Cleopatra.

This is a printable teachers' pack with classroom activities and teaching resources based on Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. The activities include: - Investigating the political situation - Staging the barge scene - What is it to be Roman? Michael Boyd's 2010 production of Antony é Cleopatra with the RSC.

This printable resource is designed as a reference guide for teachers. We have listed the major themes and motifs within Romeo and Juliet and provided examples of scenes where you can study them. Suitable across the Key Stages. Find more of our resources on our website: www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher-resources

Explanation of how Shakespeare's language works, with descriptions of the major tools of his art. This document is designed as a resource for teachers which can be adapted to use with your students.