Self-led Learning
Romeo and Juliet
Looking to broaden your knowledge of Shakespeare's tragedy of love? This is the course for you. Our Shakespeare experts take you through the play, from its plot, characters and themes to the play in performance, its legacy and its social, cultural and textual history.
This online self-led course on Romeo and Juliet is designed for teachers seeking Continuing Professional Development opportunities. It contains useful materials to enhance classroom teaching for students first encountering Shakespeare’s play at Key Stage 3, and for those who want to broaden their knowledge for Key Stage 4 and above. You can discover many new and intriguing aspects of Shakespeare’s tragedy of love, while working your way through the individual sections at your own pace.
The course is packed with interactive elements; videos of talks delivered by experts at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon; scene extracts performed by actors in Shakespeare’s family homes; descriptions of key terms and topics; and a range of other resources and activities.
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Your Shakespeare Expert
Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
He is author of the monographs: Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival (Routledge), Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd (Manchester University Press), and Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (Manchester University Press). He is Associate Editor for the first critical edition of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd since 1901 (Boydell and Brewer). He has also investigated the boundaries of John Marston’s dramatic corpus as part of the Oxford Marston project and is General Editor for The Collected Plays of Robert Greene (Edinburgh University Press). His findings on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries have been discussed in national newspapers as well as BBC Radio.
His debut poetry collection, Rambling (Broken Sleep Books), was published in 2024. In 2023 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his contributions to historical scholarship. He lectures on Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Course Information
What's included?
- an overview of the events of the play, its characters and themes
- detailed discussion of the social, cultural and historical context of the period in which the play was written
- explorations of crucial moments in the play, taking a closer look at some of the characters and Shakespeare's language
- examples of the play in performance, both at the time it was written and in modern theatres
- a look at how the play continues to influence artists and performers around the world today
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