GCSE and A level English Literature students took part in drama workshops last term, focusing on Macbeth and Hamlet, delivered by a professional Shakespearean actor. Students thoroughly enjoyed learning plenty of Shakespearean insults, as well as other aspects of Shakespeare’s language such as the use of embedded stage directions in Hamlet. Activities involved learning speeches and incorporating gestures and body language to compliment the text. Sarah Finch also talked to the students about performing Shakespeare in different countries and in different languages and how the statement is true that “He was not of an age, but for all time”.
