Tag Archives: Plays

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Play of the Week: 10 July 2016

Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom, 1851, National Gallery of Victoria. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_from_A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream (Accessed: 10 July 2016)

Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, 1851, National Gallery of Victoria.
Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_from_A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream
(Accessed: 10 July 2016)

This coming week is Activities Week when Year 7 will be listening to RSC actors talk about the play before creating their own versions and performing them in front of staff, students and parents. The Library has texts of the play plus various films and a manga version if you would like to find out more.

 

Book of the Week Roundup

September 2015 and Book of the Week was Patrick Ness’s The Rest of Us Just Live Here which was subsequently shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize.

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Since then, there have been thirty-five other Books of the Week and one Play of the Week. Here is a reminder of them all. If there are any you have missed out on borrowing why not earmark them for a summer holiday read? If they are out on loan in the School Library, try your public library.Book of the Week roundup

Othello

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Othello by William Shakespeare

Book of the Week: 5 July 2015

STC 22305 copy 1, title page

 

It’s Activities Week when Year 7 will be working on a production of Othello, so Book of the Week has temporarily become ‘Play of the Week’.

A popular soldier and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife’s fidelity, he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy, innocence is corrupted and trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies.

Quotation from the blurb of: Shakespeare, W. (2005) Othello. Edited with a commentary by Kenneth Muir. London: Penguin.

Picture of first quarto title page of Othello. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Othello_title_page.jpg (Accessed: 5 July 2015)