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LESSON

Two Households, Both Alike: Examining Family and Twinning

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare present the different households in his 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. Understanding of character relationships and the theme of family (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language (AO2)
  3. Biographical context (Shakespeare’s children) (AO3)

In this lesson