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LESSON

Daggers in Men’s Smiles: Equivocation, Duplicity, and Truth

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare engage with topical issues of his time through his use of language?
Key words
  • Appearances versus Reality
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Duplicity
  • Equivocation
  • Euphemism
  • The Gunpowder Plot
  • The Shakespearean Fool

Lesson objectives

  1. Exploration of the language of equivocation (AO2)
  2. Contextual influences, such as The Gunpowder Plot, the role of the fool, equivocation (AO3)
  3. Form, such as tragedy and the fool, prose and blank verse (AO2)

In this lesson