GCSE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Workbook

GCSE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas and mapped to the DfE subject content and the Assessment Objectives (AO1 informed personal response with references, AO2 analysis of language, form and structure, AO3 context). Students follow the plot — the four Athenian lovers (Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius) fleeing into the enchanted wood near Athens, the quarrel between the fairy king Oberon and queen Titania, Puck’s magic love-flower muddling the lovers, the weaver Bottom transformed with an ass’s head, the mechanicals’ play “Pyramus and Thisbe”, and the triple wedding that ends the comedy — and get to know Theseus, the four lovers, the fairies and Bottom. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The course of true love never did run smooth”, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” and “Though she be but little, she is fierce”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect methods to the themes of love, magic, dreams and appearance versus reality, all in the play’s contrast between ordered Athens and the chaotic wood. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.