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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It involves four young lovers called Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and...
King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedies. It is full of love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice. King Lear tells the story of a king in...
The Comedy of Errors is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare and his shortest play. It was written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s...
Richard III is a historical play written in approximately 1592. It depicts the rise to power and short reign of Richard III of England. Set after the Civil War, Richard III is...
During Shakespeare Week, all of KS3 took part in a special lesson on Shakespearean sonnets. We learnt about Sonnet 130 and how to write using parody. We were allowed to write...
William Shakespeare’s Play of the Month – Othello Othello is one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. An intense drama of love, deception and destruction,...
Hopefully many of you have been enjoying the introduction of a number of William Shakespeare plays each month in the BMS Newsletter. Well, things are about to get even more...
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies and one of his shortest plays. Written around 1610–11, it is believed to have been his last play before retirement. Set on...
William Shakespeare’s Play of the Month: Julius Caesar Set during the Roman Empire, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a tense historical drama that portrays the violent...
Shakespeare’s play of the month is Hamlet. Set in Denmark, Hamlet is a play that explores conscience, madness and the nature of humanity. A young prince meets his father’s...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It involves four young lovers called Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander who flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood. They stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are fighting over ownership of a young prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and his servant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events which becomes interwoven in a comedic and mischievous play with hilarious consequences. There is also a character called ‘Bottom’. Why not read the play to find out who Bottom is!
Fun Facts:
● In 1911, Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged a celebrated production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which included live rabbits on stage.
● The two moons of Uranus are named after the characters of Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania and Oberon. In 1787, the moons were discovered by William Herschel, a British astronomer.
