Shakespeare and the Young Writer

'Fred Sedgwick's eye for passages which have the cell-like suggestiveness coupled with the right kind of appeal to children's potential and actual experience is excellent, and much may be learned by pondering his examples.' - John Haddon, The Use of English

• Introduction 1. Mouth full of news: single lines and single speeches 2. Now it is the time of night: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. A local habitation: The Tempest and As You Like It Interval: Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot 4. How goes the night, boy? Macbeth 5. Bright smoke: Romeo and Juliet 6. Furious winter's rages: King Lear and Cymbeline 7. By heart 8. Faith, hope, love and teaching Afterword