This dramatisation for schools of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel is presented in the form of a tv documentary involving expert witnesses trying to get to the bottom of the strange case. The story is reconstructed and the audience is taken back to Victorian London… What happened to Dr Jekyll? ’Strange Cases’, the investigative television documentary programme, tries to solve this puzzle using up-to-date know-how. Key events are reconstructed and expert witnesses examine the evidence to reach a chilling conclusion. This play provides an accessible, exciting approach to the novel, as well as numerous opportunities for media work. Its language and atmosphere are true to Stevenson’s story and make comparison work easy. The large cast, including a chorus, makes the play suitable for reading in class, acting in drama lessons or school productions. The resource material investigates transformation, drugs and genetic engineering, as well as providing stimulating drama, media, speaking and writing activities.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collins Drama)

Literature & Fiction

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Genre Fiction

Collins Educational

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DEFOE, DANIEL

Education & Reference

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Great Expectations (Collins Classroom Classics)

Dickens, Charles

Reference

Collins

He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change… A series of brutal incidents – a murder, the trampling of a child – leads lawyer Mr Utterson to try to find out more about the repulsive perpetrator Mr Hyde. More importantly, he begins to question how Hyde is connected to Utterson’s old friend, the respectable Dr Jekyll. Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel, with its concern with doubles and the ‘dual nature of man’, takes the reader into the darker regions of late Victorian London, as Utterson begins to unravel the mystery and confront the horror of Hyde’s true identity. This Collins Classroom Classics edition includes an introduction and glossary to support students, written by an experienced teacher.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collins Classroom Classics)

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

HRW Library: Individual Leveled Reader The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Teen & Young Adult

HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

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Great Expectations

HOLT MCDOUGAL

Holt McDougal

Prince and the Pauper

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Fox Running, a young Zuni woman taught by her grandfather to run free in the desert, is recruited for the medal-minded Uinta University track team

Fox Running: A Novel

Knudson, R. Rozanne

Koehn, Ilse

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Humor

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