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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... Lear and his hundred knights 37 44 47 Scene 5 The Fool makes light of things 61 Act 2 66 Scene 1 Edgar panics and runs 66 Scene 2 Kent in the stocks 72 Scene 3 Edgar becomes Tom o' Bedlam 83 Scene 4 Unwelcome Lear exits 86 Act 3 101 ...
... Lear and his hundred knights 37 44 47 Scene 5 The Fool makes light of things 61 Act 2 66 Scene 1 Edgar panics and runs 66 Scene 2 Kent in the stocks 72 Scene 3 Edgar becomes Tom o' Bedlam 83 Scene 4 Unwelcome Lear exits 86 Act 3 101 ...
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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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Aidan Coleman, Stephen McInerney, William Shakespeare. KENT EDGAR Why SHOULD a DOG, a HORSE, a RAT, have LIFE, (iambic) And THOU no BREATH at ALL? Thou'lt COME no MORE; (iambic) NEVer, NEVer, NEVer, NEVer, NEVer. (trochaic) (Act 5 Scene ...
Aidan Coleman, Stephen McInerney, William Shakespeare. KENT EDGAR Why SHOULD a DOG, a HORSE, a RAT, have LIFE, (iambic) And THOU no BREATH at ALL? Thou'lt COME no MORE; (iambic) NEVer, NEVer, NEVer, NEVer, NEVer. (trochaic) (Act 5 Scene ...
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... Kent about Edmund's origins is followed by 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 ...
... Kent about Edmund's origins is followed by 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 ...
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... KING LEAR Husband of Adviser to THE DUKE OF CORNWALL Daughter of CORDELIA Suitor and then husband to Suitor to THE KING OF FRANCE THE KING OF BURGUNDY Servant of THE EARL OF KENT / CAIUS THE FOOL Also appearing : Curan ( a courtier ) ...
... KING LEAR Husband of Adviser to THE DUKE OF CORNWALL Daughter of CORDELIA Suitor and then husband to Suitor to THE KING OF FRANCE THE KING OF BURGUNDY Servant of THE EARL OF KENT / CAIUS THE FOOL Also appearing : Curan ( a courtier ) ...
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Act 1 Scene Alack ALBANY audience Bedlam beggars blinding Burgundy characters Child Rowland complete the table contrast Copy and complete CORDELIA KING LEAR CORNWALL daughters death dost dramatic irony Duke Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester EDGAR GLOUCESTER EDGAR emphasise enters Exit eyes father FOOL KING LEAR Fortune France GENTLEMAN give GLOUCESTER EDGAR GLOUCESTER Gloucester's gods Gonerill and Regan Gonerill's hast hath hear heart iambic pentameter iambs imagery Jacobean James justice KENT KING LEAR Kent’s KING LEAR FOOL KING LEAR KENT kingdom Kingdom of Britain knave language Lear and Cordelia Lear's letter lines look Lord Lord Chamberlain's Men Madam means messenger nature night Nuncle Nunn nutshell OSWALD KENT paraphrase might read pathetic fallacy Peter Brook play play’s poor Prithee Questions REGAN GONERILL servant sister soliloquy speak speech storm tell Text notes thee thine Trevor Nunn trochee villain words