Jennifer Illman

Studying Shakespeare with your class? 📚 It’s Shakespeare Week next week! Click for resources on a range of plays, suitable for your age group 👉 bbc.in/3MUcWsN

Bring forth men children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. #Macbeth #ShakespeareSunday

Loved running this #Valentines special for my Year 13s today - essay speed dating! Loads of useful feedback and chances to reflect and improve #teachingenglish #furthereducation #englishlit #happyhalfterm

Found The Last Witch by @CJessCooke absolutely fascinating. Completely changed my perspective on Hecate - not malevolent but a figure for desperate women to turn to. And in a time when women didn’t even own their own bodies let alone anything else - why on earth wouldn’t they?

Silent debate on Romeo and Juliet with Year 9 today. Ensures everyone participates whilst getting them to think beyond the surface level 💪🏻 #keystage3 #teachingenglish #shakespeare

🗡️🗡️🗡️All resources now available if anybody would like it. Would love any feedback too as this is a very different way of us approaching KS3 units! @LitdriveUK @Team_English1 dropbox.com/scl/fo/3gis9gc…

Latest blog post - thoughts on disguise in #TwelfthNight for teachers of @AQA A Level English Literature Paper 1 - Comedy @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK …ungshakespearesocietyuk.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/a-l…

‘I do love nothing in the world so well as you.’ Much Ado About Nothing. Beatrice & Benedick ❤️ #ShakespeareSunday

#quotesanalysis #macbeth #shakespeare #gcseliterature

Jan 23, 1594: Earliest recorded performance of Titus Andronicus is noted in Philip Henslowe's diary as "Titus & ondronicus" performed by Sussex's Men. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/2WGBlEp

Another week, another lecture, another great turn out from @ripleystthomas Year 11s 💪🏻. Bit of a break now until after the mocks. Transcript incoming… #revision #teachingEnglish #eduqaspoetry

Lovely idea from a year 13 essay today - Olivia’s gifts to “Cesario” highlight her materialism and vanity. They also underline love as transactional, allowing Shakespeare to mock courtly love conventions in the process. #Shakespeare #TwelfthNight #teachingenglish

@teacherhead @learning_bay It is indeed! 💔

@youngshakesoc @learning_bay It really is a powerful film

Enjoyed the @learning_bay session with @teacherhead today. A lot of really useful ideas and reminders. On an unrelated note am now emotionally wrung out from watching #Hamnet. Knowing what’s coming really doesn’t help 😭💔

@xAimieCrewex Love this! Also I feel like Year 9 are ALWAYS timetabled for Friday Period 5 somehow 😂.

‘… to tell you that this dog, my dog’. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pyramus & Thisbe) #ShakespeareSunday

Just delivered this for the second year in a row! Had to bring in extra chairs ❤️🥹 very well done @ripleystthomas Year 11s! 💪🏻 #revision #shakespeare #teachingenglish

When all else fails, read.

Latest blog post on why we should all be doing more wider reading - if we had more time to do it in, that is …ungshakespearesocietyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/for… #teaching #teachingenglish #reading #englishliterature #shakespeare

Watch Shakespeare on Prime buff.ly/ruSq2gA | The most complete collection of Shakespeare’s plays to be captured in widescreen, performed by the Royal #Shakespeare Company, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.