Set Text Talks

Packed full of useful information these popular interactive, illustrated literature/language sessions cover all aspects of Shakespeare's plays and can be tailored for particular exam specifications.

Our experts are able to deliver sessions on any of Shakespeare’s plays. If required, arrangements can be made to discuss your session with one of the team in advance of your visit. Please enquire when booking.

These 90 minute talks focus on:

• Structure, form, and language
• Social, cultural, and theatrical contexts
• Stagecraft
• Themes
• Alternative interpretations
• Influences/sources
• Critical voices
• Function and effect of writing
• Informed personal responses
• Selected extracts
• Stage history.

Sessions can be booked all year round, Monday to Friday - 9.00am to 5.00pm and take place onsite in Stratford-upon-Avon.

For more information or to make a booking please email [email protected]

Price: £10 per student with a minimum charge of £150.

Accompanying staff are free of charge.

Maximum capacity per talk is currently 33 (students plus staff). Larger groups would be split across more than one session.

A visit to Shakespeare’s Birthplace can be arranged for an additional charge.

Looking to make the most of your time away from the classroom?

Why not combine our Set Text session with a Speech Exploder practical workshop.

In the session, students will take a monologue from their set text and "explode" it, breaking it into pieces to explore context, language, meaning and character.

In just 60 minutes your students will sharpen their close reading skills and gain confidence in speaking Shakespeare aloud.

Price: £7 per person with a minimum charge of £150.

Accompanying staff are free of charge.

Maximum capacity per session is currently 33 (students plus staff). Larger groups would be split across more than one session.

Dr Nick Walton is a recent recipient of the Inspirational Educator Award for Teaching Shakespeare. Nick is co-author of The Shakespeare Wallbook (winner of the Parents' Choice Gold Award) and co-devised the Shakespeare edition of Trivial Pursuit; he has published widely on Shakespeare for Penguin, Routledge, DK Books and Cambridge University Press, and has worked with the BBC and Future Learn as both a presenter and content creator for online Shakespeare educational resources. Nick has been a regular guest speaker for the RSC, the National Theatre, and sixth form conferences across the country.