Warwick Business School and Royal Shakespeare Company Announce Joint Venture for the Teaching of Shakespeare

The Play’s the Thing: Warwick Business School and Royal Shakespeare Company Announce Joint Venture for the Teaching of Shakespeare

Warwick Business School (WBS) and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announce a path breaking new partnership. See Teaching Shakespeare or follow the link at the end of this story.

The new joint venture, Teaching Shakespeare, aims to transform the classroom experience of Shakespeare through delivering high-quality online professional development for teachers.

At the heart of Teaching Shakespeare is a specially-created set of online resources offering teachers unique access to a rehearsal room and an active approach to Shakespeare’s plays, with a delivery platform that draws upon the cutting-edge online platform that WBS has developed for its highly-acclaimed distance learning programmes.

The WBS-RSC partnership will provide up to a thousand teachers a year around the world with access to the RSC’s resources and creative talent. Up to 400 of those teachers will also have the opportunity to work with an academic tutor to gain their own postgraduate qualifications in the teaching of Shakespeare accredited by the University of Warwick.

Professor Mark Taylor, Dean of Warwick Business School, commented:

"This collaboration brings together two world-class organisations located in Shakespeare’s Warwickshire in a unique creative partnership between a leading business school and a leading artistic company. WBS brings the business acumen and academic experience of a top business school to the partnership, while the RSC brings the creativity and performing experience of the world’s greatest theatre company. This is in line with the WBS policy of looking at things differently. At WBS, creativity is our business."

Jacqui O’Hanlon, Director of Education at the Royal Shakespeare Company, said:

"We are delighted to be combining the RSC’s playful and creative approaches to teaching and learning with the world-leading business, teaching and research practices of Warwick Business School through developing Teaching Shakespeare. This is a new venture that connects us with a global community of teachers who are all passionate about teaching Shakespeare in ways that unlock the language, inspire learning and release imagination. We hope to reach thousands of teachers and transform the classroom experience of Shakespeare for students across the world."