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 6
... poor , overcrowded suburb filled with hastily built houses and flats . This is where immigrants from other parts of England or overseas come to live when they first arrive in London because it's cheap and no one asks questions . It is ...
... poor , overcrowded suburb filled with hastily built houses and flats . This is where immigrants from other parts of England or overseas come to live when they first arrive in London because it's cheap and no one asks questions . It is ...
Page 14
... poor ' — undercut one another . In the case of ' rags ' ( indicating poverty ) and ' bags ' ( indicating wealth ) ... poor ' . The intricacy of such forms , and the cleverness of the rhymes , serves to heighten the authority of the Fool ...
... poor ' — undercut one another . In the case of ' rags ' ( indicating poverty ) and ' bags ' ( indicating wealth ) ... poor ' . The intricacy of such forms , and the cleverness of the rhymes , serves to heighten the authority of the Fool ...
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... poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of 'so much' I love you. [Aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, With shadowy forests and with champains riched, With plenteous ...
... poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of 'so much' I love you. [Aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, With shadowy forests and with champains riched, With plenteous ...
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... poor Cordelia ! And yet not so , since , I am sure , my love's More ponderous than my tongue . To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom , No less in space , validity , and pleasure Than that ...
... poor Cordelia ! And yet not so , since , I am sure , my love's More ponderous than my tongue . To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom , No less in space , validity , and pleasure Than that ...
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... poor, Most choice, forsaken, and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. 235 240 Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'Tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed ...
... poor, Most choice, forsaken, and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. 235 240 Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'Tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed ...
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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