The Literature Reader – Key Thinkers on Key Topics (Print) Format: Print

Eighteen chapters by leading academics and practitioners on key aspects of English Literature to inform, engage and pique the interest of A Level students. Foreword by Professor John Mullan

Doing Close Reading (Print) Format: Print

Supports advanced level English Literature students in understanding what it means to analyse texts closely, through practical activities on a wide range of texts and close readings by leading academics and critics.

The Facility and Other Texts – Re-imagining Antigone (EMC Cultural Conversations) (Print) Format: Print

Forthcoming Autumn 2022 A collection of specially-commissioned new writing for KS3 by poets Valerie Bloom and Inua Ellams, short story writers Phoebe Roy and Barbara Bleiman and playwright Sarah Hehir, inspired by, and in conversation with, Sophocles’ play Antigone.

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Discovering Literature – Teachers’ Toolkit (Download) [EMC-Free] Format: Download

Written by the English & Media Centre with the British Library Learning Team, this free download suggests ways of using the rich and diverse range of contextual and critical materials on the Discovering Literature website.

Discovering Literature – Macbeth (Download) (EMC-Free) Format: Download

Written by the English & Media Centre with the British Library Learning Team, this free download on Macbeth draws on the Discovering Literature’s rich resources to provide activities on the play, its contexts and criticism.

Exploring A Doll’s House – EMC Approaches for After Reading (Download) Format: Download

Downloadable publication providing critical, creative and contextual activities on A Doll's House for after reading.

Studying King Lear – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing King Lear as a literary text and as a drama script in production.

Studying Hamlet – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

ERA Finalist 2018 Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing Hamlet.

Studying A Streetcar Named Desire (Print) Format: Print

96 pages of activities and resources to support the study of A Streetcar Named Desire for English Literature or combined Language and Literature courses at advanced level.

Studying Othello with DVD – EMC Advanced Literature Series Shakespeare (Print) Format: Print

Classroom material taking students from pre-reading activities and close reading approaches on each Act, to after reading work and preparation for essay writing. Includes 90-minute DVD.

An Inspector Calls Study Guide (Print) Format: Print

80-photocopiable pages of classroom activities linked to a 60-minute DVD.

Studying All My Sons (Print) Format: Print

Balanced section-by-section activities with work encouraging an overview of the play as a whole. The flavour of the material is lively, challenging and innovative, with sparky ideas for getting through the text.

Pre-1770 Drama: Elizabethan & Jacobean (Print) Format: Print

128-page photocopiable pack introduces the cultural, social, historical and literary contexts of the period through the study of substantial extracts from a range of set texts.

Tragedy: a Student Handbook (Print) Format: Print

A comprehensive introduction to tragedy, designed for advanced level students. It provides clear explanations of key concepts in tragedy and changing ideas about tragedy over time, from classical theories and Renaissance thinking through to modern interpretations.

Dramatic Genres: Comedy (Print) Format: Print

A comprehensive set of materials and activities on the dramatic genre of comedy, to resource advanced level teaching, whichever play texts you are teaching. 160-page photocopiable pack, with 2-hour DVD.

Introducing the Gothic (DVD including PDF study guide) Format: Print

Lively activities introducing aspects of the Gothic. (DVD including PDF study guide)

Text Reader Critic (Print) Format: Print

Limited reprint of the original text available now Helps students to develop and reflect on their own readings and introduces them to interpretations by other readers, building their confidence and understanding of the contexts which shape different readings.

Pre-1770 Drama Elizabethan & Jacobean (Download) Format: Download

An exciting way into the contexts of pre-1770 drama texts. The cultural, social and historical context of the plays of this period are introduced, using substantial extracts from many of the set texts.

EMC Approaches to Kindertransport (Download) Format: Download

Material and activities to support both GCSE and advanced level students. Includes video interviews with playwright Diane Samuels and Vera Coppard, a kindertransport child.

Media Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language (Download) Format: Download

A fresh and engaging introduction to close reading of Shakespeare’s language through active media approaches to two separate texts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet. Includes video material.

An Inspector Calls Study Guide (Download) Format: Download

This 48-page photocopiable PDF offers support for an engaged reading of the play, with many suggestions for classroom drama work and discussion of the central ideas of the play.

Romeo and Juliet Study Guide (Download) Format: Download

Photocopiable PDF study guide for KS3 and GCSE on Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with fun, lively and challenging classroom activities, such as role play, a media simulation, creative writing, visual and drama approaches and close language work.

Richard III Study Guide (Download) Format: Download

Photocopiable PDF study guide on Shakespeare's history play Richard III, with classroom activities, lesson ideas and resources suitable for KS3 and GCSE.