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 12
... heart') which are respectively evocative of beauty ('fare'), health ('well'), nobility ('sir'), wholeness ('all') and love ('heart'), all the things Gloucester believes he has lost.The person reading the part of Gloucester will speak ...
... heart') which are respectively evocative of beauty ('fare'), health ('well'), nobility ('sir'), wholeness ('all') and love ('heart'), all the things Gloucester believes he has lost.The person reading the part of Gloucester will speak ...
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... heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short, that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys, Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear Highness' love ...
... heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short, that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys, Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate In your dear Highness' love ...
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... heart and me 105 Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighboured, pitied, and relieved As thou my sometime daughter. Good my ...
... heart and me 105 Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighboured, pitied, and relieved As thou my sometime daughter. Good my ...
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... heart and brain to breed it in? When came this to you?Who brought it? EDMUND It was not brought me, my Lord; there's the cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet. 55 EDMUND EDMUND EDMUND GLOUCESTER EDMUND EDMUND ...
... heart and brain to breed it in? When came this to you?Who brought it? EDMUND It was not brought me, my Lord; there's the cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet. 55 EDMUND EDMUND EDMUND GLOUCESTER EDMUND EDMUND ...
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... heart is not in the contents. 60 GLOUCESTER Has he never before sounded you in this business? Never, my Lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declining, the father should be as ward ...
... heart is not in the contents. 60 GLOUCESTER Has he never before sounded you in this business? Never, my Lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declining, the father should be as ward ...
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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