Y7: Shakespeare's World (Week 5)

Hello Y7,

I hope you’re all okay and that you enjoyed learning about the life of the Bard!

This week, you’ll be learning more about Shakespeare’s world – and especially his theatre.

Tasks for the week beginning 18^th May:

1) Do this quiz about the life of Shakespeare.

2) Find out what you can about Shakespeare’s world and his famous theatre, The Globe.

• who reigned in England during Shakespeare’s career?
• what was London like during this time?
• what were the theatres (or public playhouses) like?
• where, when (and how) was the Globe built?
• what was the Globe like?
• what was it like to watch, or to act in, a Shakespeare play?

  

Presenting your work

Like last week, you can do any of the following:

• Make notes in your exercise book
• Make notes on paper (if you don’t have your book)
• Create a powerpoint presentation (you could share this with your teacher via email, or even with your whole class when we get back)
• Create a poster/factsheet

Resources:

There are loads of great resources out there to help you on this research task. Here are just a few of the best ones:

• Shakespeare’s Globe – (highly recommended) - two twenty-minute programmes from the BBC (to access this resource, you’ll need to log-in to Clickview using your normal school username and password
• Shakespeare’s World – highly recommended - (from Shakespeare’s Globe) – there are a number of useful, short articles here on Shakespeare’s London, the playhouses, the Globe etc.
• The Globe: A Virtual Tour (from Shakespeare’s Globe) – go explore!
• Shakespeare's Theatre (i.am.WillShakespeare) – an easy video intro from BBC Teach
• Shakespeare's World (i.am.WillShakespeare) – an easy video intro from BBC Teach
• Shakespeare’s Globe – a mini-documentary about the modern Globe Theatre.
• Shakespearean Theatres (an article from the RSC):

Have a good explore. We’ll quiz you on this stuff next week.

Speaking of quizzes, here’s the True or False quiz from last week with answers included:

That’s all for now. Next week: Shakespeare and Genre.

Hope you’re all well!

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT