Shakespeare’s Globe has an annual project, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, which stages a production designed especially for teenagers and provides free tickets for state schools across London.
In advance of going to see Romeo and Juliet, year 9 pupils at Hampstead School have been using the dedicated website which accompanies the project. It has made the text more accessible and really helped to get pupils excited about the trip. It would also work well as a standalone resource for those too far away to go and see the play.
A lot of pupils question the relevance of Shakespeare’s plays to their lives at the start of a Shakespeare teaching unit, I often hear “Well of course you like Shakespeare, Miss; you’re an English teacher!”
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