There are 2 plays for each of levels 3-6 (please note plays for levels 5 and 6 also appear in the Photocopiable Masters Book for the appropriate level). For level 3 the play 'Recycle, re-use, reduce' develops the topic of 'Environment Day' which is part of the Festivals material at the back of the Class Book while the 'School Sports Day' play follows up the Children around the world section on 'Sport in my country'.
The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context
In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the plays. It investigates their relation to the Greek poetic tradition and to the social and political structures of their original setting, aiming both to be attentive to the great variety of the corpus and to identify commonalities across it.
Focusing on the Elizabethan era in England, a period from about 1550 to 1603, this title shows various examples of the fascinating clothing worn by everyone from the noblemen and middle classes to the countryfolk and military men. England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I is well known to students as the time of Shakespeare’s plays and other courtly drama. Photographs and illustrations from popular plays and movies show vivid examples of Elizabethan dress, which will assist students who are studying the common costumes and accessories of the time.
Shakespeare, The Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD
Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, this text offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film or cultural studies.
Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video
[T]hese essays help us understand how Shakespeare continues to live in the twentieth century, and they do it in a manner incomparably more interesting than the articles in the popular media that appear with nauseating regularity and ubiquity at the release of every new adaptation.
