We will be taking part in another Shakespeare workshop this week. We will be reading through another piece of work by Shakespeare and also act part of it out. So far we have looked at the following plays; Twelfth Night, The Taming Of The Shrew, and also A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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In today's workshop we also looked at a selection of phrases used in today's english language which were coined by Shakespeare. Such phrases included "Forgone Conclusion" (MacBeth), "Full Circle" (King Lear), "Good Riddance" (Trolus & Cressiola), "Seen Better Days" (As You Like It), "Laid with a trowl" (As you like it) ,"Blinking Idiot" (Merchant Of Venice), and "Eaten out of house and home" (Henry IV)

In the second half of the work shop we had a poetry workshop were we read Wildred Owens "DULCE ET DECORUM EST" and other peoms by Carol Ann Duffy.