Biography William Shakespeare

2022

Choice Reviews Online, 2013

This paper is hosted on the Education pages of the RSC website and was originally written in 2007 to support the 'Time for Change' campaign which resulted in the RSC's Learning and Performance Network, a long standing national project, and the Stand Up For Shakespeare manifesto launched in 2008. This paper outlines a hundred years of teaching Shakespeare in England from the English Association's pamphlet in 1908 to the campaign launch in 2007. It highlights particulalry that calls for active approaches to be used in teaching Shakespeare are not new but neither have policy decsions allowed them to become embedded as normal practice in English classrooms.

This is a chapter from my PhD thesis 'Possible Shakespeares: The educational value of working with Shakespeare through theatre-based practice' (available: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk) and is an update on the previous history written for the RSC. this chapter contextualise the current debate around the value of Shakespeare in our education systems by reviewing the growth of English literature as a subject for study and how Shakespeare found his place as its only compulsory author. I explore how the plays came to be regarded primarily as literary heritage conveying 'universal' values, and how current policy seems to have conflated those 'universal' values with 'British' values.

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2015

Notes and Queries, 1984

Critical Survey, 2009

IT seems to be a kind of Respect due to the Memory of Excellent Men, especially of those whom their Wit and Learning have made Famous, to deliver some Account of themselves, as well as their Works, to Posterity. For this Reason, how fond do we see some People of discovering any little Personal Story of the great Men of Antiquity, their Families, the common Accidents of their Lives, and

Throughout the history of English literature, including eras such as the Anglo-Saxon period, Middle English literature period, and Renaissance literature period, there have been many names to be attributed to the contribution of the English language, and the literature itself. When English literature in all its senses is considered, one of the pioneer names that comes to mind is unquestionably William Shakespeare.