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Graphic Classics for the Classroom
'Macbeth: The Graphic Novel will be a valuable addition to the class set collection of any high school English department. So to will the accompanying workbook'
- Garry Collins, President of the English Teacher's Association Queensland
Classical Comics ~Adapted by John McDonald. Illustrated, inked & coloured by Jon Haward, Nigel Dobbyn & Gary Erskine~ 1st Edition
AU$25.95
Paperback ~ 246 x 168 mm, 132pp, full colour illustrations throughout, published February 2008
A revolution in graphic novels: the full, original script! Fate. Destiny. Or one man's obsession with power? Macbeth is probably the most dramatic of Shakespeare's tragedies. Set in 1040, this spectacular treatment of one of the greatest works of the Bard will give you a brand new and totally fulfilling view of the sheer genius of his story telling.
Witchcraft, superstition, murder - it's all here! Featuring stunning artwork, and full of action, atmosphere and intrigue from start to finish, this new graphic novel of The Bard's wonderful tragedy will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
A must-have for any graphical novel purchaser, teacher, student or general reader.
This is the full, original script - just as the bard intended. This version is ideal for purists, students and for readers who want to experience the unaltered text.
Plain Text and Quick Text versions of Macbeth are also available.
Click here to view the same 'tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' scene extract from each of the three text versions of Macbeth (low-res/low-quality pdf 400kb)
Other titles in the Classical Comics range include:
William Shakespeare
Available in three text versions: Original, Plain & Quick
Romeo & Juliet: Original Plain Quick ~ Henry V: Original Plain Quick ~ The Tempest: Original Plain Quick
Click here to view the same balcony scene extract from each of the three text versions of Romeo & Juliet (med-res/good-quality pdf 870kb)
Classical Literature
Available in two text versions: Original & Quick
Jane Eyre: Original Quick ~ Frankenstein: Original Quick ~ Great Expectations: Original Quick ~ A Christmas Carol: Original Quick
Classical Comics have also created Teacher Resources to complement each of these titles. Each Resource is Spiral Bound for the ease of photocopying and includes a CD-ROM.
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Writers and Their Work
Shakespeare Studies
Incisive critical analyses of Shakespeare's landmark works
Helen HACKETT
Northcote House 1997[I] 1st Edition AU$26.95
Paperback ~ 216 x 135 mm. 96pp Illustrated. ~ Writers & Their Work Series.
Change and transformation are central to the action, themes and language of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book will show how the play participates in a widespread 1590s concern with mutability; often, as here, expressed through moon-imagery, and associated with representation of the ageing Virgin queen. However, it is also very much a play about procreative change, set at one of the 'green hinges' of the year, to use Angela Carter's phrase. The happy ending is marked by multiple marriages; and yet, these marriages have been achieved through conflict and force.
Comedy veers close to tragedy, and vice versa in the inset Pyramus and Thisbe performance, illustrating Shakespeare's sense of the innate indeterminacy of genres. It is also Shakespeare's most Spenserian play in its depiction of a supernaturally animated natural world, providing the grounds for the characterisation of Shakespeare as a poet of nature which was to prove so influential for Milton and the Romantics.
Dr Helen Hackett teaches English Literature at University College London. She was previously a tutor and research fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary(1994), and of a number of articles on women as readers and writers of romance in the Renaissance. She is a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Women and Literature 1500-1700.
ISBN: 9780746307540 [Stock #5185]
Terence HAWKES
Northcote House 1995 1st Edition AU$26.95
Paperback ~ 216 x 135 mm. 96pp Illustrated. ~ Writers & Their Work Series.
King Lear is generally thought to be Shakespeare's masterpiece. Terence Hawkes's concise but thorough sifting of the play offers a full exposition of its complex narrative and thematic structure. By means of careful attention to some of the play's central pre-occupations as well as a close analysis of the texture of its verse, he seeks to locate it firmly in its own history, showing it to be wholly responsive to the social context from which it derives and to which, clearly, it aims to speak.
At the same time, by drawing on and explaining some of the main concepts of recent critical movements, Professor Hawkes also shows what it means to view the play from our situation in the late-20th century. The result is a challenging critical work which, whilst probing to the heart of King Lear also reflects on its own critical procedures and assesses what they tell us about the world in which we currently live.
Terence Hawkes is a Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has lectured in many parts of the world and written extensively on Shakespeare, and on modern critical theory. Among his many books are: Shakespeare's Talking Animals (1983), That Shakespeherian Rag (1989), and Meaning by Shakespeare (1992).
ISBN: 9780746307397 [Stock #5179]
Edward BURNS
Northcote House 2006[I] 1st Edition AU$29.95
Paperback ~ 216 x 135 mm. 136pp Illustrated. ~ Writers & Their Work Series.
Richard III has the status of a monster in British culture, and the continuous popularity of Shakespeare's play has done much to foster this. Deformity and distortion operate through this myth on many levels. This study is an essay in five 'distortions', tracking the way the play manipulates and explores fundamental human concerns: the body, history, theatre, childhood and family and the mirrors and shadows of individual identity and self-knowledge.
Edward Burns is Senior Lecturer in the department of English Language and Literature, the University of Liverpool. His many publications include: Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity (1987); The Character: Acting and Being on the Pre-Modern Stage (1996); and The First Part of King Henry the Sixth (Arden Shakespeare 1999). In addition to his published work he has directed and designed more than 40 plays.
ISBN: 9780746309162 [Stock #5173]
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Will's Twins: A Play About Shakespeare's Children
By Patrick Spillane, New Zealand's premier school playwright
Mahobe Resources, paperback, 2009, 112pp, 235 x 160mm, 9781877489006, $22.95
Finalist in the 2010 NZ Post Book Awards!
'... A Lively Junior-High English Class Text ...'
'A Charming Senior-High Drama Performance Script ...'
Young writer Will Shakespeare arrives home at his Stratford home to a frosty reception from his wife Anne Hathaway. He is broke but hopes to use some of his company and his son Hamnet to stage a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Hamnet is more into wrestling and hunting than the strange world of boy actors and is most unwilling to play a female on stage. His twin sister Judith and Meg the housekeeper help him out...
Will's Twins is a superb play that not only contains a charming but lively class drama text but also contains a number of introductory and post-play language and literature activities. This means minimal preparation work for busy teachers. There are also many opportunities for class involvement in the readings, group activities, and language and literary work of this attractive and practical text. Will's Twins is great for an accessible introduction to the Shakespearean world and as part of themed teaching on fantasy, dream, friendship, imaginary worlds, growing up, and family. And, of course, this is a fully contained unit of work for any junior high or senior high drama course, and has parts for 22 characters.
Patrick Spillane is New Zealand's premier school playwright. His plays have a 'unique, proven teenage voice' and have been widely performed and studied over the last two decades. Animal Fallout based around animal rights and Rosie a Second World War play set in Dunedin (South Island, NZ) have both gone over ten editions. Grace explores the Americanisation of NZ in the 1960s.
Spillane's latest play Will's Twins continues his thread of exploring brother & sister relationships as he takes teenagers into the Shakespeare family home and a rehearsal of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. Duncan Allan, who directed the first production, described the play as 'a brilliant exploration of Shakespearian magic, mirth & midsummer madness. It is warmly affectionate and will excite, inspire and ignite ... students'. Patrick has directed and taught English and Drama over a long career and is 'an experienced playwright and educator' whose writing has been described by critics, directors and teachers as 'poignant and real ... witty and intense ... exciting, funny and full of the magic of theatre ... perfect dramatic material to captivate teenagers & entertain an audience ... foolproof play making from someone who knows how to capture and delight the student audience ...'
Now also available on DVD:
In 2008 Duncan Allan and his cast of performing arts students from Selwyn College (NZ) undertook the first performance of Will's Twins. The result was a brilliant exploration of Shakespearean magic, mirth and midsummer madness. This is the DVD of that first performance. With this DVD Teachers not only see how the director and his actors designed the production and interpreted the play but also see the great language, physical comedy and the opportunities the play presents.
Mahobe Resources 2009. Directed by Duncan Allan 1st Edition AU$39.95
Click here to order – or ask more about - Will’s Twins
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Hamlet on DVD
Compare and Discuss in Your Classroom
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 214 minutes. Rated PG
Region 4 DVDs can played in the following territories: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guiana).
Featuring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter and Lalla Ward, Hamlet is part of a unique collection of some of the finest dramatic masterpieces in the English language. Originally broadcast on BBC Television in 1981 it was highly acclaimed worldwide.
ISBN: 9397810084490 [Stock #3545]
Icon Entertainment 1990 AU$28.95
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 130 minutes. Rated PG.
Master Director Franco Zeffirelli brings Shakespeare's classic story of ultimate revenge to the screen in Hamlet.
Mel Gibson stars as the tortured Prince battling with his sanity and his conscience to avenge his father's death. Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the king dies. His mother Gertrude (Glenn Close) has already married Hamlet's uncle Claudius (Alan Bates), the new King. They urge Hamlet to marry his beloved Ophelia. But soon the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and Gertrude.Hamlet must choose between passive acquiescence and the need for a vengeance which might lead to tragedy.
Cast: Ian Holm, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Paul Scofield, Alan Bates, Helena Bonham-Carter
ISBN: 9339065000191 [Stock #5204]
Columbia Studios 1969 AU$19.95
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 112 minutes. Rated G.
Award-winner Tony Richardson directs this stunning telling of the Bard's classic tale of madness and revenge. Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins and pop idol Marianne Faithfull lead the cast of handsome, full-blooded and fascinating interpretation of the timeless story.
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Gordon Jackson, Mark Dignam, Marianne Faithfull
ISBN: 9317731029820 [Stock #5203]
Warner Home Entertainment 2007 AU$45.00
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 1 DVD with duration of 242 minutes. Region 1 DVDs can only be played in the following territories: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda, unless you have a multi-region DVD player. book&volume will contact you to confirm that you wish to purchase this product, and to discuss how to overcome technical issues.
Region 1 DVD originally released on video in 1996.
Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. 'The film, like the play, will have something for everyone', he says. 'It's a ghost story, a thriller, an action-packed murder mystery, and a great tragedy that is profoundly moving'.
With an outstanding cast of international actors - including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Julie Christie as Gertrude, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Charlton Heston as the Player King, Robin Williams as Osric, and Gerard Depardieu as Reynaldo - Branagh's version, in which he plays the title role as well as directs, will go down in film history.
This timeless tale of murder corruption and revenge is reset in an opulent 19th-century world using sprawling Blenheim Palace as Elsinore and staging much of the action in shimmering-mirrored gold-filled interiors. The excitement of the Bard's words and an adventurous filmmaking style lift the story from its often shadowy ambiance to a fully-lit pageantry and rage.
Now presented in an amazing 2-Disc Special Edition.
ISBN: 9781419849725 [Stock #6495]
BBC 2009 AU$39.95
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 2 & Region 4 DVD* with duration of 182 minutes. Rated PG
Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company features David Tennant's thrilling, mercurial, and often very funny stars central performance.
This visually sumptuous screen version, filmed on location with the original stage cast, captures the atmosphere and excitement of the critically acclaimed production. Patrick Stewart won an Olivier Award for his performance as Claudius, King of Denmark. Penny Downie plays Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and Mariah Gales is the tragic Ophelia. Edward Bennett is Ophelia's avenging brother Laertes, and Oliver Ford Davies takes the role of their father Polonius.
Tennant won a great deal of praise and accolades for his role in the Shakespeare play with The Guardian referring to the Scot as, 'the greatest Hamlet of his generation'.
The King of Denmark is dead and has been succeeded by his brother Claudius. Claudius has also married Gertrude, the widowed Queen. Hamlet, Gertrude's son, is already distressed by his father's death and the hasty remarriage and when his father's ghost appears to tell him that he had been murdered by Claudius, Hamlet vows revenge. To cover his intentions, he feigns madness. Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, whose daughter Ophelia is all but betrothed to Hamlet, believes that his madness is caused by repressed love and sets a trap for them. Spied on by Polonius and Claudius, Hamlet encounters Ophelia and violently rejects her.
ISBN: 5051561031304 [Stock #7957]
*Region 4 DVDs can played in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guiana).
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Useful Links
English Teachers Australia
www.englishteacher.com.au
Learning with Bell Shakespeare
February-March
Free Teacher Forum
Touring to every Australian State and Territory, this forum is designed to provide teachers with new and interesting ways to teach Shakespeare in the classroom.
Click here for more information and to see what the Bell Shakespeare Learning Program has to offer throughout 2010.
Good Reading Magazine
Good Reading Magazine now has a page for teachers. Click here to find out more and to see how Good Reading can be used in the class room.
The Shakespeare Centre
http://theshakespearecentre.blogspot.com/
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