LESSON
Man or Maid: Gender in the Play
Overview
5 Activities- Key questions
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- How does Shakespeare present and subvert Elizabethan expectations of gender in the play?
- Key words
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- Disobedience
- Fertility
- Gender
- Metaphor
- Subvert
- Succession
- Symbolism
- Understanding of the theme (gender) and informed personal response to the text (AO1)
- Historical context (Elizabethan gender roles) (AO3)
- Analysis of language and symbolism (AO2)
Lesson objectives
In this lesson
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