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LESSON

The Public Haunt of Men: Public vs Private Life

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare present public and private life in the play and which themes correspond with these two states?
Key words
  • Colour coding
  • Deception/Secrecy
  • Dichotomy
  • Double entendre
  • Gender
  • Innuendo
  • Leitmotif
  • Love/Hate
  • Masculinity
  • Metaphor
  • Passion/Lust/Infatuation
  • Public versus private
  • Racial formation
  • Sensibility
  • Violence/Conflict

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of character, theme and informed personal response (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language and symbolism (AO2)
  3. Awareness of the context of Elizabethan entertainment and sensibilities (AO3)
  4. Accurate writing (AO4)

In this lesson