Globe Education and Hodder Education launch Romeo and Juliet, the second title in their dynamic series for 11 to 16 year olds 23 September 2011 Shakespeare‟s Globe and Hodder Education launch a bold new schools edition of Romeo and Juliet, the second play in the Globe Education Shakespeare series, on 30 September 2011. The publication follows the successful launch of the series‟ inaugural title, Macbeth, in May this year, which is already reprinted. Editions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing will follow in 2012.
Alongside the print edition, Romeo and Juliet is supported by Dynamic Learning, an innovative online learning resource which includes videos of the play in performance at the Globe and an interactive script machine which enables students to explore different features of text.
Copies of the play text, priced at £7.99, can be ordered through Hodder Education at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/globeshakespeare. The Dynamic Learning digital resource is available from £100 + VAT depending on the size of school and length of subscription.
The Globe Education Shakespeare series offers a fresh approach to engaging 11 to 16 year olds and helping them understand Shakespeare‟s plays as performance texts. Activities in the editions are inspired by actors‟ experience and the theatre production expertise at the Globe, as Fiona Banks, Head of Learning at Globe Education, explains: “There is widespread acknowledgement that Shakespeare is best taught actively as plays that are performed, but until now there has been no other edition that draws directly from the rehearsal room and theatre performance practice. These editions do both. "Activities come from the rehearsal room and provide an insight into the way Shakespeare is created in performance today. Students can experience the same process of exploration and discovery as Globe actors, whose job it is to explore Shakespeare‟s character and language, and interpret it for an audience. The edition draws directly on the 13 years of theatre production at the Globe and contains a wealth of images taken from different productions of the play enabling students to make informed comparisons about different interpretations of the text. “ Paul Cherry, Publishing Director at Hodder Education adds, “We recognise that for a new „school Shakespeare‟ to work, we have to offer so much more than what‟s gone before: not just with resources and technology but with the sort of insight into exploring, performing and teaching that only Globe
Education could offer. Our partnership chimes perfectly with a growing spirit in English-teaching: active engagement with these works that helps teachers and students understand Shakespeare‟s use of character, themes and language like never before. It‟s this true understanding - and enjoyment! that will help students achieve their very best grades and set them on a path to enjoying the work, language and people of the greatest playwright in the English language.” Globe Education has spent 20 years working on ways of unlocking the excitement of Shakespeare‟s plays for today‟s young people. It has devised active approaches, tried and tested with many different types of school groups, showing that young people learn best by “doing”. The activities can all be done in a classroom, if necessary, with students sitting at their desks. A clear glossary sits opposite the attractively-formatted text and there are full colour photographs throughout from Shakespeare‟s Globe theatre productions. Examiners‟ Notes, covering each Awarding body, prepare students for success in Controlled Assessment and examinations. Paul Shuter, series editor and interim Director, Globe Education, commented, “We‟ve used the tremendous experience at Shakespeare‟s Globe to create a tool for teachers which helps them bring some of the excitement of performance and rehearsal into the classroom, in a practical way.”
ENDS Further information and images from Eleanor Lovegrove at Shakespeare‟s Globe Press Office on +44 (0)20 7902 1468, eleanor.l@shakespearesglobe.com Globe Education Shakespeare: Globe Education Shakespeare: Macbeth ISBN 978 1 444 13662 3 • £7.99 Globe Education Shakespeare: Macbeth Dynamic Learning From £100.00 + VAT Globe Education Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet ISNB 978 1 444 13664 7 • £7.99 Globe Education Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Dynamic Learning From £100.00 + VAT Globe Education Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing ISNB 978 1 444 14589 2 • March 2012 • £7.99 Globe Education Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing Dynamic Learning March 2012 • From £100.00 + VAT Globe Education Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ISNB 978 1 444 13666 1 • June 2012 • £7.99 Globe Education Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dynamic Learning June 2012 • From £100.00 + VAT
Notes to Editors Globe Education is the largest theatre education department in the UK. Each year, more than 100,000 people of all ages and nationalities participate in Globe Education's programme of public events, workshops and courses. Globe Education also runs an extensive programme in the Southwark community and creates national and international outreach projects for students and teachers. For more information, visit www.globe-education.org The Shakespeare Globe Trust is a registered charity No.266916. The Globe receives no public subsidy. Hodder Education is one of the UKâ€&#x;s leading secondary education publishers. Hodder Education publish a range of books, teacher material and digital resources to support a variety of teaching styles and student ability from Key Stage 3 through to A level. For more information, visit www.hoddereducation.co.uk