Reading Room - Teacher's Guides

In order to bring Shakespeare off the page and teach the plays as scripts for performance, teachers might like to try some of the exercises in the following two books:

Edward L. Rocklin, Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare (2005) – contains pedagogic theorizing as well as practical exercises

James Stredder, The North Face of Shakespeare: Activities for Teaching the Plays (2004) – may be obtained from Wincot Press, 42 Maidenhead Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6XT

There are hundreds more fine books on Shakespeare, but anyone who reads The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works from cover to cover and then devours a reasonable proportion of the above will have earned the right to consider themselves an exceptionally highly informed Shakespearean.