Books in The Cartoon Shakespeare series series

This teacher’s reference is designed to accompany the student’s book, in which the main characters and key events of The Tempest are brought to life in a simplified retelling that is supported by dramatic pictures and key speeches from the original text. More than 30 activities are provided, each designed to encourage active learning through participation in group work, including the development of acting skills, peer teaching, and self-assessment.

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously shocking and playful approach to violent revenge and bodily mutilation. Jonathan Bate's original Arden edition was first published in 1995 and has had a significant influence on how the play has been performed and studied in the past 20 years. This revised edition includes a new 10,000 word introductory essay in which Bate reassess his views on the play's co-authorship with George Peele in the light of contemporary textual scholarship and updates his lively account of the play's performance history, on the international stage and screen. With detailed on-page commentary notes this will continue to be the edition of choice for students, scholars and theatre-makers.