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LESSON

This Love Feel I: Courtly Love

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare present traditions of courting and the complexities of love?
Key words
  • Contrast
  • Heteronormative
  • Love
  • Love (lyrical/romantic/courtly/true/infatuated)
  • Lust/Passion/Infatuation
  • Metaphor
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Petrarchan
  • Sonnet

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of the theme (love) and informed personal response to the text (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language (AO2)
  3. Love through time (AO3)

In this lesson