Shakespeare AQA AS Unit 2 Observing practitioners and learning from

Observing practitioners and learning from them can enhance students’ own performance and enable them to become better directors of their peers

be readily adapted to use with different Shakespeare plays

More than nine extracts can be mentioned

It has proved popular with both boys and girls

Throttle and choke

Shakespeare AQA AS Unit 2 Observing practitioners and learning fromUnit 6 of the Edexcel A2 examination is a two and a half hour exam, constituting 15% of the total A2. The paper is divided into two sections. Section A is a thorough examination of a play from a directors viewpoint, with the prescribed texts being Trojan Women by Euripides and The Beggars Opera by John Gay. Section B requires students to research the production history of a play originally written and produced between 1575 and 1720. They must compare