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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... 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 Gloucester waits Scene 3 The bitter end ...
... 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 Gloucester waits Scene 3 The bitter end ...
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Aidan Coleman, Stephen McInerney, William Shakespeare. Today's play is King Lear. It costs just a penny to enter.This is about a tenth of the ... Cordelia, Regan and Gonerill, are played by boys whose voices have not yet ... King Lear 7.
Aidan Coleman, Stephen McInerney, William Shakespeare. Today's play is King Lear. It costs just a penny to enter.This is about a tenth of the ... Cordelia, Regan and Gonerill, are played by boys whose voices have not yet ... King Lear 7.
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... king of France and upon his death is succeeded by his faithful daughter Cordelia (known by various similar names, such as Cordella). Departing from its predecessors, Shakespeare's ending – in which both Cordelia and Lear die – would ...
... king of France and upon his death is succeeded by his faithful daughter Cordelia (known by various similar names, such as Cordella). Departing from its predecessors, Shakespeare's ending – in which both Cordelia and Lear die – would ...
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... King Lear comes in the heartbreaking speech Lear makes following the death of Cordelia (Act 5 Scene 3).The speech includes a line of trochaic pentameter (the capitalised letters indicate the stressed beats in the following passage): ...
... King Lear comes in the heartbreaking speech Lear makes following the death of Cordelia (Act 5 Scene 3).The speech includes a line of trochaic pentameter (the capitalised letters indicate the stressed beats in the following passage): ...
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... Lear's dramatic opening speech in verse. Another example, also from Act 1 Scene 1, is the shift to prose after the love-test has ended and Cordelia has departed. The last words in verse, spoken by the noble France – 'Come, my fair Cordelia ...
... Lear's dramatic opening speech in verse. Another example, also from Act 1 Scene 1, is the shift to prose after the love-test has ended and Cordelia has departed. The last words in verse, spoken by the noble France – 'Come, my fair Cordelia ...
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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