Cambridge School Shakespeare offers a new and exciting approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. Each play is treated not as a text, but as a script, and the dramatic experience lies at the heart of the rationale. The series is designed to help both experienced and inexperienced teachers and to enable students to make their own discoveries about the plays, rather than imposing interpretations upon them.
Based on extensive and successful trialling in the classroom, the series results from the most thorough research and development work by the Shakespeare and Schools Project with school and college students of all ages and abilities.
Each play features:
'The great strength of the series . . . lies in the sheer profusion of stimulating ideas for practical experiments with Shakespeare's language and for learning through performance.' School Librarian
'The vision is all-ability Shakespeare, challenging moribund approaches, with a commitment to exploring the words "on your feet"', via active, pupil-led group work . . . Rex Gibson's introduction claims that the series aims to be "different". In that difference is the brilliance. The Cambridge School Shakespeare could have a profoundly beneficial influence on the English curriculum . . . I urge all who love Shakespeare to invest in it - the interest will be rewarding.' Times Education Supplement
'Here is an edition that both understands and instructs about drama, reading and classrooms on many levels.' The English and Media Magazine
'Everything is designed to make studying the text a dynamic experience. Responses are prompted, assumptions questioned, information fed in at the appropriate time to move on the student's understanding and appreciation. These editions seem to me to make Shakespeare accessible and relevant to the great majority of children in our secondary schools.' Times Education Supplement