James Shapiro at the Dalkey Book Festival
A brief account of James Shapiro’s appearance with Fintan O’Toole at the 2024 Dalkey Book Festival.
Read More'King Lear' light and dark: webinar
Links and notes from my webinar on Tuesday 7th May 2024 for the English Community of Practice organised by Joe Rolston via Wexford Education Support Centre.
Read More'King Lear' webinar: light and dark
A free webinar on ideas of ‘light and dark’ in ‘King Lear’, via Wexford Education Centre, at 7.00pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024.
Read MoreWebinar on teaching 'King Lear'
A free webinar on Wednesday 16th October 2024 for teachers of King Lear in the Leaving Certificate.
Read More100 for 100 Macbeth, by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth
English teachers will appreciate 100 for 100 Macbeth, by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth, which is directed at student revision, but also has lots of opportunities for class work.
Read MoreEmma Smith on 'King Lear'
Notes on the ‘King Lear’ chapter of Emma Smith’s book This is Shakespeare.
Read MoreShakespeare: 'In Our Time'
A list of the BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ episodes about Shakespeare.
Read MoreEmma Smith on 'Hamlet'
Notes on the Hamlet chapter in Emma Smith’s This is Shakespeare.
Read MoreRevising the sequence of 'Hamlet' 2
A simple way to help pupils understand which parts of a play are important for revising an individual character. Here, Hamlet, but any play by Shakespeare works.
Read MoreGabriel Josipovici's 'Hamlet: Fold on Fold'
Gabriel Josipovici’s commentary in Hamlet: Fold on Fold is consistently stimulating and thought-provoking, and blessedly free of academic jargon.
Read MoreThe RSC Shakespeare Complete Works
The second edition of the RSC Shakespeare Complete Works edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen is well-worth buying.
Read More'The Great White Bard' by Farah Karim-Cooper
Professor Karim-Cooper’s The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, race and the future is a rich and provocative look at the plays with a fresh eye.
Read More'Searching for Juliet' by Sophie Duncan
Sophie Duncan’s Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine is a wide-ranging account of the many afterlives of one of literature’s most famous protagonists.
Read MoreCaravaggio and 'King Lear'
King Lear and Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’ were created at the same time, in two different countries, by two artists who never met each other: but they share a lot.
Read More10 characters in 'Hamlet'
5-minute talks on relatively ‘lesser’ characters in Hamlet.
Read MoreHamlet key moment video annotations
15 video annotations of key moments in Hamlet.
Read MoreMacbeth key moment video annotations
20 video/audio annotations of key moments in Macbeth.
Read MoreSwiss Army Knife (exploding) quotations
A simple and effective revision technique in class, mining a single statement/quotation, and opening up rich discussions about the text (here, Macbeth).
Read MoreMacbeth webinar
The ‘shownotes’ for my webinar for teachers on revising Macbeth leading up to the Leaving Certificate. Via Tralee Education Support Centre, evening of Monday 9th January 2023.
Read MoreKing Lear for Litdrive
‘Shownotes’ from a presentation on teaching the end of King Lear, as part of Litdrive’s online CPD programme, January 2023.
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