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by Bryony Tragedy is like Stratford on the Tube line: the final destination. You can go through all the exciting stations, but the carriage and you, terminate at Stratford. A tragedy can have a comedy, love and a good old punch up included, but ultimately we are heading towards death and a sad a thoughtful conclusion to the ‘two hours traffic’ onstage. Not that there’s anything wrong with…

by Bryony Editions We Use: The Complete Works (Rsc, 2005) Wider Reading You Might Find Useful: Watch this space! * This play shows language at its most romantic: look out for the dialogue that includes the line ‘palm to palm’ – this conversation makes up a sonnet. Related Content: Watch this space!

Editions We’ve Used: Arden Shakespeare (2003) Other wider reading that you may find useful: Shakespeare’s Tragedies by AC Bradley (pub. Penguin, 1991) Hamlet: Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies No.5 by various, (pub. Edward Arnold, 1963)   Adaptations: So there may have been more Hamlet adaptations in the last few years than is reasonable to count, but the one we always return to is the one that started…

Welcome to our first blog series! The summer holidays are ending and soon we know you’ll be back in school, studying Shakespeare (or teaching Shakespeare!) in English classrooms up and down the country. This term’s series aims to help you with the basics of some of the most commonly studied plays in school. Each play will be broken down into four component parts: a Snapshot, giving you an…