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LESSON

Unsex Me Here: Gender in Macbeth

Overview

5 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare challenge Jacobean ideas of gender through his use of language?
Key words
  • Alliteration (nasal - sibilant - aspirant)
  • Ambition
  • Binary
  • Cast
  • Gender
  • Power
  • Stereotype
  • Symbolism

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding and interpretation of character (AO1)
  2. Contextual attitudes to gender (AO3)
  3. Analysis of language (AO2)
  4. Accurate spelling of sophisticated vocabulary, range of punctuation (AO4)

In this lesson