Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer : Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools

This collection of essays is multidisciplinary and wide-ranging.

The authors, literary and theatre specialists, scientists from various fields, and a psychiatrist, present Shakespeare's works from very different perspectives, highlighting a new outlook on the current ways of tackling Shakespeare.

Teachers of English all over Europe will find this book an eclectic tool which allows them to present Shakespeare in a challengingly vibrant way.

To explore Shakespeare's plays, the authors deploy a range of filters such as nutrition, plant sciences, geography, art history, costume design, music, comics and street art.

They show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.