Saturday 8 February 2014

Recommended for English lessons: No Fear Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare (nfs.sparknotes.com/) is part of the excellent Spark Notes website (www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/), it is designed to make shakespeare easier to learn for anyone! 


No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today. This makes it much easier to understand and infer from the text; as both versions are avalible side by side it makes comparison and understanding of not so common words so much simpler.












It also provides summaries and in depth analysis of each act/scene and character. This is useful during revision to quickly remind yourself of the story or for some extra perceptive points for your essay.

It is a huge resource for both students and teachers and the best bit is that it's free!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Ben. This is a really useful site, especially for those students doing controlled assessments on specific extracts of a Shakespeare play. The site takes all the mystery out of what some students find very challenging texts. No fear left after using this site!

    Ms F

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  2. We just started doing Macbeth so I had a look at the website, it's very helpful and seems easy to use and gives lots of information of what happens. thx ben

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