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'If I be waspish, best beware my sting' Meet a dazzling array of bold, brainy, mischievous and sometimes downright wicked women in this witty, empowering guide to Shakespeare’s fiercest female characters. From clever Rosalind to ruthless Lady Macbeth, via some lesser-known but equally captivating ladies, this irreverent guide explores the power, passion and most perceptive observations of Shakespeare’s characters. These women are not just part of the plot; they’re the driving force behind the action, cracking jokes, taking matters into their own hands and refusing to play by anyone’s rules.Alongside behind-the-scenes tales of performances from the Royal Shakespeare Company's archive, you’ll also find timeless quotes to deploy in everyday life, for example: When your alarm goes off on Monday morning: ‘Dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom’When dealing with a traffic warden: ‘What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?’When a colleague forgets to unmute on a call: 'Alas, she has no speech'This is the ultimate gift for anyone wanting to add a dash of wit and wisdom to their lives the Shakespearean way.

Developed by one of the world's leading theatre companies, this fantastic resource offers teachers a practical, drama-based approach to teaching and appreciating three of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The toolkit brings the plays alive as performance pieces, with pupils undertaking drama-based explorations of the text that take them through much of the play. Teachers' notes and accompanying photocopiable worksheets offer a lesson-by-lesson teaching route through each of the three plays in turn. The schemes of work offer teachers a route through each play that has been designed to be flexible and to bolt on to what they already teach. The schemes comprise a series of lessons that can either be followed in their entirety as a stand-alone scheme of work or which can be dipped into by teachers wanting to augment their existing schemes of work.