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LESSON

A Timeless End: Structure and Resolution

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does the play’s structure, ending and use of time impact the audience’s experience and understanding?
Key words
  • Age/Youth
  • Appearances versus Reality
  • Chronology
  • Confusion/Miscommunication
  • Death/Mortality
  • Deception/Secrecy
  • Duality
  • Family
  • Fate/Fortune/Chance
  • Friendship
  • Gender
  • Guilt
  • Honour
  • Individual/Society
  • Love/Hate
  • Loyalty
  • Order/Disorder
  • Pace
  • Passion/Lust/Infatuation
  • Plot
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Resolution
  • Status
  • Structure
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Violence/Conflict

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of plot, character, theme, and personal response regarding the play’s message (AO1)
  2. Structural analysis (AO2)
  3. Literary context (Shakespeare’s source and structural conventions of a classical tragedy) (AO3)

In this lesson