King LearInsight Publications, 2011 - 224 pages Even the most resolutely disengaged students can finally 'discover' and thrill to the rhythms and passions of Shakespeare's plays! Award-winning teachers and Shakespearean scholars have extensively trialled their approach to teaching Shakespeare's plays in the classroom, and this series is the result! The plays in this series are becoming increasingly popular for student resources in schools as English and Drama teachers discover their fabulous teaching and learning qualities. |
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Page iii
... Bedlam Scene. Scene 1 Gentleman in the storm Scene 2 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!' Scene 3 Gloucester tells Edmund a secret Scene 4 Lear meets Tom 0' Bedlam Scene 5 Cornwall will have revenge Scene 6 Lear to go to Dover Scene 7 ...
... Bedlam Scene. Scene 1 Gentleman in the storm Scene 2 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!' Scene 3 Gloucester tells Edmund a secret Scene 4 Lear meets Tom 0' Bedlam Scene 5 Cornwall will have revenge Scene 6 Lear to go to Dover Scene 7 ...
Page iv
... Bedlam Scene 2 Gonerill and Edmund Scene 3 Cordelia in command Scene 4 Regan, Oswald and the message Scene 5 Gloucester survives to meet Lear Scene 6 The reconciliation Act5 Scene 1 A battle lost but the promise of a champion Scene 2 ...
... Bedlam Scene 2 Gonerill and Edmund Scene 3 Cordelia in command Scene 4 Regan, Oswald and the message Scene 5 Gloucester survives to meet Lear Scene 6 The reconciliation Act5 Scene 1 A battle lost but the promise of a champion Scene 2 ...
Page v
... Bedlam and beggars 114 A performance at the court before the King 125 King Lear as tragedy 183 Shakespeare's themes and techniques Soliloquies and asides 36 Dramatic irony 44 Thinking about appearance and reality 63 A word about ...
... Bedlam and beggars 114 A performance at the court before the King 125 King Lear as tragedy 183 Shakespeare's themes and techniques Soliloquies and asides 36 Dramatic irony 44 Thinking about appearance and reality 63 A word about ...
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... Bedlam, Shakespeare drew extensively on Samuel Harsnett's anti-Catholic polemical work Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, first published in 1603, which attacked the Catholic practice of exorcism. Thus, in King Lear Shakespeare ...
... Bedlam, Shakespeare drew extensively on Samuel Harsnett's anti-Catholic polemical work Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, first published in 1603, which attacked the Catholic practice of exorcism. Thus, in King Lear Shakespeare ...
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... Bedlam) and Gloucester at the precise moment Gloucester believes he is departing the world. The poignancy is heightened by the stress on key emotive words ('fare', 'well', 'sir', 'all' and 'heart') which are respectively evocative of ...
... Bedlam) and Gloucester at the precise moment Gloucester believes he is departing the world. The poignancy is heightened by the stress on key emotive words ('fare', 'well', 'sir', 'all' and 'heart') which are respectively evocative of ...
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Act 1 Scene ALBANY Albany’s audience Bedlam beggars blinding brother Burgundy characters Child Rowland complete the table contrast Copy and complete CORDELIA KING LEAR daughters death dost dramatic irony Duke Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester EDGAR GLOUCESTER EDGAR EDMUND GLOUCESTER emphasise enters Exit eyes father FOOL KENT FOOL KING LEAR Fool’s GENTLEMAN give GLOUCESTER EDGAR GLOUCESTER Gloucester’s castle gods Gonerill and Regan Gonerill’s hast hath heart iambic pentameter iambs imagery Jacobean KENT KING LEAR Kent’s KING LEAR FOOL KING LEAR KENT KING OF FRANCE King’s kingdom knave language LEAR FOOL KING LEAR KENT KING Lear’s letter lines Lord Madam man’s means nature night Nuncle Nunn nutshell OSWALD pathetic fallacy Peter Brook play’s poor Press PLAY Prithee Questions servant Shakespeare Shakespeare’s plays sister soliloquy speak storm Text notes thee There’s thine Trevor Nunn trochee villain words