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LESSON

Man or Maid: Gender in the Play

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare present and subvert Elizabethan expectations of gender in the play?
Key words
  • Disobedience
  • Fertility
  • Gender
  • Metaphor
  • Subvert
  • Succession
  • Symbolism

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of the theme (gender) and informed personal response to the text (AO1)
  2. Historical context (Elizabethan gender roles) (AO3)
  3. Analysis of language and symbolism (AO2)

In this lesson