Language and Literature / English: Plays and Poetry Sets (Middle/Senior)

This new selection of Gwen Hardwood's work includes poems from The Present Tense, published shortly before her death in 1995, as well as poems not included in earlier editions of Selected Poems.

Lines to Time Fourth Edition has been prepared to meet the requirements of the VCE Literature Study Design. With its chronologically presented selection, Lines to Time Fourth Edition is an exclusive and comprehensive poetry anthology for any senior English Literature course.

ENGLISH LITERATURE: POETRY TEXTS &? ANTHOLOGIES. This book introduce
children to a lifetime of pleasure in poetry with this intricately
illustrated anthology. It features a wide range of best-loved poems such as
"Whether the Weather Be Fine", "The Human Seasons", "Kubla Khan", "Monday's
Child" and "Hush Little Baby". It comes with works by a variety of
well-known writers including William Blake, Emily Bronte, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti, William
Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson. It includes a biographical 'About
the Poets' section at the back of the book, and an index of titles and first
lines. It is perfect for reading aloud to small children, or for more
confident readers to enjoy by themselves. Poems are magical. In just a few
words, they can take you on a journey to a faraway land, or even into
another person's head! The carefully selected poems in this collection open
up an enchanting world of rhythm and language, feeling and fantasy. Ages 7+

This classic American play is a fictionalised account of the Salem witch trials, intended as an allegory for McCarthyism.

Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But now he has inherited a
block of land and with Sue-Anne, his angry and pregnant girlfriend, he gets
an urge to build a nest. Satire becomes drama as the battlers reach for
their dreams.
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When social worker Ant discovers Currah, a young indigenous girl with a horrific past, he's certain he's found the way to make a difference. When literary agent extrordinaire Ronnie Lowe discovers Currah, she's certain she's found marketing gold. Now Currah's got the world at her feet, and an army of fans and isnt returning any of Ant's calls. Finding himself flung aside, Ant will do anything to be part of the spotlight. Inspired by the recent spate of fabricated misery memoirs, A Hoax is a vicious satire on the politics of identity, modern celebrity and the peddling of abuse culture.
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Mother Courage is cast as a walking contradiction by Brecht. She is torn between protecting her children from the war and making a profit out of the war.

Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. His parents are suddenly old, theatre is not what it used to be, people around him are losing their minds and losing faith, the world is shrinking, and what does it even mean to live in a society any more?
Once in Royal David's City is big and small at once, tumbling from the fifties to the present, from West Berlin to Byron Bay, from brief encounters to the cycles of history. It is about mothers and sons, lost innocence, omnipresent death. It is about rage. It is about the brilliant possibilities of theatre.

When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How will her friends cope? How can such violence be understood? A Property of the Clan deals with these issues with honesty, sensitivity and intelligence.

A play that considers the relationship between three indigenous part sisters, one their mother dies.
A film version also exists.

Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet
Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue
over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of
Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant
Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written
in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian
Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of
Brecht's epic theatre. This volume contains expert notes on the author's
life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs
from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases.

A gothic fairytale for young people. Three lost children discover an
abandoned orphanage in the bush and learn a history of Australia through the
spirits of children who have lived there, from convict times, through to
World War Two, the Stolen Generation and beyond.
An evocative play which explores history, reconciliation and the power of
storytelling, Children of the Black Skirt has toured widely through schools
and is a classroom favourite with teachers and students alike.

Lewis arrives fresh from university to direct a play at a mental
institution. Roy demands Cosi Fan Tutte. An affectionate look at madness and
mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 3 women).

Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But now he has inherited a
block of land and with Sue-Anne, his angry and pregnant girlfriend, he gets
an urge to build a nest. Satire becomes drama as the battlers reach for
their dreams.

Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

It had been one of those scorching summer days. Sprinklers swivelled to a hypnotic beat, cicadas pulsed to the shimmering heat, the concrete was caramel under your feet and the ice-cream van turned slow motion into our dead-end street'. Matt Cameron's arresting new play begins like a fairytale- but ends somewhere else entirely.
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Erica's dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years.Now she's in Yr 11 she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway.
Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out. The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.
This unforgettable and insightful new work will touch your heart instantly and take your breath away.

Thursday's Child is Tin, born on a Thursday and like the old nursery rhyme, has far to go. A strange and lonely child who digs, his wanderings take him underneath the earth into the subterranean tunnels that he's pre-destined to roam. Told by his sister Harper Flute, it is a story of an Australian farming family's strength as they battle their way through the great depression of the 1930's. A surreal and epic piece of theatre that explores the themes of memory, fate, family camaraderie and the spirit of determination in a time of great change. Thursday's Child is an engaging and deeply moving story that captures the heart and imagination.
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No reader, regardless of age, will fail to be captivated by this charming
story of a legendary dog, in Louis de BerniÞresÆ Canadian publishing debut.
ôIn early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the
literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to
Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a
long way farther north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of
vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I
imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it.
ôI went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the
town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this
splendid dog.
ôA few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious
weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that
he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out
that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.

Drawn by the power of the beat and the tribal escape of dance, Ben hangs out with Fergus, a choice rave DJ who is heading for the stars. For Zoe, an aspiring DJ, music is the drug and she's addicted. Ben's mother seeks rapture through the Church and the stories of the saints. And Stacy...?

When his younger sister, Stacy, wants to check out the rave scene, Ben knows he'll have to watch out for her. And tonight she's going to drop her first ecstasy pill. Later, Ben will struggle to forgive himself and his mother retreats into the Church. But the time will come to face the truth about what really happened that night.

George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics.

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. Adapted into the Oscar-winning musical film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in 1964, Pygmalion

The awakening to middle-age of two larrikin canecutters and their women (3 acts, 3 men, 4 women).

The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the worlds leading centers for scholarship, learning, and culture.

In this book, you'll find the following:

Clearly written essays by leading scholars to refresh teachers and challenge older students
Michael Tolaydos brilliant and accessible technique for classroom teaching through performance
Day-by-day teaching strategies that successfully and energetically immerse students of every grade and skill level in the language and in the plays themselves created, taught, and written by real teachers

*Includes a CD-ROM with PDF booklet, ideal for whole-class teaching on whiteboards, laptops, etc or for direct digital printing. Written by a teacher, for teachers. Suitable for teaching ages 10-17, this book provides exercises that cover structure, listening, understanding, motivation and character as well as key words, themes and literary techniques. Although the majority of the tasks focus on the use of language and comprehension, there are also many cross-curriculum topics. Devised to encompass a broad range of skill levels, this book provides many opportunities for differentiated teaching and the tailoring of lessons to meet individual needs.
This resource can be used alongside the Classical Comics adaptation of Macbeth as well as any traditional text. In fact, many of the activities can stand on their own as introductions to the world of Shakespeare.

Modern version side-by-side with full original text
The Shakespeare Made Easy series places the full original text side-by-side with the full modern translation to help make Shakespeare's plays accessible to everyone. This popular and established series is particularly helpful for students when they take their first steps into studying Shakespeare. Ideal for instant reference and understanding, each edition also features discussion of Shakespeare's life, work and theatre to help provide a more rounded understanding.

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo and Juliet includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. Romeo and Juliet is a set text for KS3 in England, and remains one of the most popular
texts for study by secondary students the world over.
This title is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent GCSE specifications.

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Insight Shakespeare Plays û Macbeth is a comprehensive and informative guide for students and teachers. This all-in-one resource contains the entire play, plus analysis of key themes, historical context and concepts such as witchcraft, as well as a breakdown of vocabulary and language techniques. Group tasks and individual exercises stimulate discussion and encourage students to really engage with the play. Teachers are able to tailor their lessons to their student's interests and abilities, whilst addressing key elements of the Australian Curriculum for English.
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An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'Stagecraft', 'Write about it', 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'The Taming of the Shrew' and Shakespeare. Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of 'The Taming of the Shrew' from around the world.

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