A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Exploratory Play Pack for GCSE

Whimsical and fantastical, exciting and engaging, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most playful pieces, making it a great choice of text to teach at GCSE.

These ready-to-use, student-friendly notes and engaging exploratory activities combine to create the ultimate practical study pack for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

  • Packed with practical, written, research and discussion tasks
  • Practice essay questions interwoven throughout
  • Key terms glossary
  • Teaching notes and indicative content
  1. Consolidate contextual understanding
    Find out how the playwright, the social, historical, political and cultural contexts and the performance context inform the play
  2. Explore the play scene by scene
    Get insightful commentary and analysis of relevant events and themes while considering the implications on performance, direction and design
  3. Uncover theatrical possibilities
    Take a closer look at production concepts, characterisation, staging, lighting, sound, props, costume and more in light of the whole play