KS3 resources for English teachers | Plays

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (28)

Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard and David Ian Neville (play version) (2)

Black Harvest (Plays Plus) (1)

Collision Course by Nigel Hinton (6)

Dracula (Oxford Classic Playscripts) (3)

Fast by David Grant (9)

Frankenstein (Oxford playscripts) adapted by Philip Pullman (5)

Free! by David Grant (9)

Hamlet (1)

Hamlet: KS3 drama-based activities (2)

Henry V (1)

Henry V - Act 4 Scene 1 (2)

His Dark Materials (play) by Philip Pullman and Nicholas Wright (11)

Introduction to Shakespeare: background and biography (17)

Introduction to Shakespeare: language (7)

Introduction to Shakespeare: the plays (21)

Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs (1)

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men by Tony Robinson (5)

The Merchant of Venice (2)

Millions: the play adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (16)

Much Ado About Nothing (15)

Much Ado About Nothing (KS3) (24)

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 1 (11)

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2 (3)

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 3 (4)

Much Ado About Nothing - Act 4 (6)

Nation: the play by Terry Pratchett and Mark Ravenhill (8)

Othello (1)

Our Day Out by Willy Russell (13)

Paving Paradise by Richard Conlon (9)

Reading plays (3)

The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur (2)

Richard III (28)

Richard III - Act 1 (20)

Richard III - Act 2 (2)

Richard III - Act 3 (25)

Richard III - Act 4 (7)

Romeo and Juliet (43)

Romeo and Juliet - Act 3 Scene 1 (3)

Romeo and Juliet - Act 3 Scene 5 (4)

Romeo and Juliet - The Banquet Scene (Act 1 Scene 5) (2)

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (2)

The Tempest (33)

The Tempest - Act 1 (25)

The Tempest - Act 2 (1)

The Tempest - Act 3 (16)

The Tempest - Act 4 (4)

The Tempest - Act 5 (9)

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross (OUP playscript) (1)

Twelfth Night (23)

Twelfth Night - Act 1 Scene 5 (5)

Twelfth Night - Act 2 Scene 4 and Act 3 Scene 1 (9)

Twelfth Night - Act 3 Scene 4 (8)

Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin (play version by Richard Conlon) (9)

White Poppies by Sue Saunders (11)

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Analysing Caliban: Act 1 Scene 2

Dramatic techniques: teach me, tell me

Miming the ball

Act 1 Scene 1 comprehension tasks

Post-reading activities

Kingship in the play