The Microwave Shakespeare Pack

Stephen Rickard, Barbara Catchpole

Series: Microwave Shakespeare
Interest Age: 11 - 16 Years old
Reading Age: 8 - 9 Years old
Published: 1 January 2019
AR Book Level: MY+ 3.9 - 4.9
Book Band: Brown
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 52pp
Words: See individual title
Pack (format)
ISBN: 9781785913495

Availability: In stock

£55.00

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Description

The Microwave Shakespeare Pack is a collection of nine books providing introductions to key Shakespeare plays. The plays covered include all the key plays studied in schools for GCSE and together form a great introduction and revision aid when studying Shakespeare's plays.

These books are perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. Each play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The books use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate the experience of actually watching the play.


The texts follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make these books perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language.


Written by three award winning writers Barbara Catchpole, Stephen Rickard and Jill Atkins, these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.


This pack contains one copy of each of the following books from the Microwave Shakespeare Series:


Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Julius Caesar
Hamlet

 

Reviews

“I was so worried about my English exam, I only had a week to learn the whole play! Microwave Shakespeare saved me.” - Charlotte, 15

 

"Staying impressively faithful to the plot and structure of the original text, the narrative voice is fresh, modern and colloquial; yet still includes key quotations (highlighted in italics), as well as clear analysis of themes, character, and rhetorical devices. Most of all, though, this is a book that absolutely captures the excitement, intrigue and sheer visceral power of Shakespeare’s tragedy as performed live on stage, which is an impressive feat by anyone’s standards. Not only will it prepare teens for GCSE study...it will ensure they start out by realising that Macbeth is, above all, one hell of a story. Spread the word.” - Helen, The Teach Co.