Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth: Everything you need to teach Shakespeare's complex play at GCSE and A Level

Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth gives you everything you need to teach Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, tailored for both GCSE and A-level students.

Designed as the perfect companion for secondary practitioners, this teacher guide weaves together the expert subject knowledge, ready-to-use resources and tried-and-tested classroom strategies needed to teach Shakespeare’s renowned play. Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth covers the main points that need to be taught to pupils from various exam board specifications. It offers practical and adaptable resources to engage students, deepen their understanding, and improve their analytical writing.

Created with the needs of students at its heart, Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth supports conceptual understanding, oracy, independent reading skills and develops extended writing, as well as offering a unique focus on the play in performance. Amy Smith and Conor Hanratty provide ideas and resources for exploring the staging of Macbeth, creating a fresh insight to Shakespeare's play.

Bloomsbury Teacher Guides contain research-informed, engaging strategies for relevant lessons and exam preparation, including retrieval practice, scaffolding and reciprocal reading. The book includes exclusive downloadable and printable teaching resources for instant use in the classroom to support students at all levels, appropriate for all GCSE and A Level exam boards, and pre-teaching at KS3 level. Whether you are new to teaching or looking for varied ideas to try out in the classroom, this Bloomsbury Teacher Guide will be your expert companion to the study of Macbeth.

• Publication date: 27 August 2026
• Page count: 272
• Dimensions: Height 153 mm; Width 233 mm; Thickness 17 mm
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9781801998550