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LESSON

Go Hence, To Have More Talk of These Sad Things: Personal Responses

Overview

5 Activities
Key questions
  • Can I deliver a compelling and cohesive argument, giving my personal response to the play?
Key words
  • Age/Youth
  • Appearances versus Reality
  • Confusion/Miscommunication
  • Death/Mortality
  • Deception/Secrecy
  • Duality
  • Family
  • Fate/Fortune/Chance
  • Friendship
  • Gender
  • Guilt
  • Honour
  • Individual/Society
  • Love/Hate
  • Loyalty
  • Order/Disorder
  • Passion/Lust/Infatuation
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Status
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Violence/Conflict

Lesson objectives

  1. Delivering a compelling, cohesive argument giving a personal response to the play (AO1)
  2. Analysis of form, structure, language (AO2)
  3. Context (literary context and Shakespeare’s message) (AO3)
  4. Accurate writing with sophisticated vocabulary (AO4)

In this lesson