Bespoke Workshops
Active two-hour workshops with an RSC practitioner in our Clore Learning Centre. These workshops can be tailored to your students and their current knowledge and experience of the play. You can book a workshop as an individual event or as part of your trip to see Much Ado About Nothing.
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Teacher Webinar
A 90-minute online introduction to teaching Much Ado About Nothing. Find out more about teaching this play using active rehearsal room approaches, preparing students for exams and have the opportunity to ask questions of an RSC Practitioner.
21 May 2025, 4pm, Online
£10
INSET Days
Book a CPD session to enhance your teaching of Much Ado About Nothing for Key Stage 3, GCSE English Literature, A level English Literature or Drama and Theatre Studies. Our INSET Days explore techniques used in our rehearsal rooms and and look at how you can use these in the classroom to bring Shakespeare to life. Book a full day, half day/twilight or online workshop with us to be delivered in your school.
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Much Ado about Nothing is classified as one of Shakespeare’s comedies and focuses on the stories of two couples: Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick.
For young people of all ages, there is so much to interest them in this text. As well as being a great opportunity to look at comic conventions and the different roles of the female characters, there are lots of themes you can use as routes into the text including:
- Appearance and Reality
- Family honour
- Revenge
Live Lesson
You can watch our Live Lesson from 2022 on demand on YouTube. The lesson is linked to the 2022 production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Roy Alexander Weise (joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).
Live Lesson
SHAKESPEARE LEARNING ZONE
Students will find many resources on Much Ado About Nothing in our Shakespeare Learning Zone, including scene by scene analysis, activities on character relationships, in depth scene studies and PEE grids. These resources are also perfect to be used by teachers in the classroom.
