From Shakespeare to Stoppard, the Greeks to "Red Dwarf", Oscar Wilde to "Blackadder", this guide offers a way to explore drama at Key Stage 3. Designed to meet the drama objectives of the framework for teaching English, the book offers a variety of extracts and activities. It covers: an overview of major plays and playwrights; comparison of drama from different era, different cultures and different media; and developing an understanding of the language of drama, its major genres and dramatic forms.

 

This book is part of a book series called Heinemann Plays For 11-14 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited .