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LESSON

Where the Place: Across Settings and Contexts

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • In what ways is Macbeth a timeless play?
Key words
  • Duality
  • Fate
  • Plot
  • Power
  • Symbolism
  • ambition
  • appearances versus reality
  • bravery
  • brutality
  • children
  • contexts
  • corruption
  • fear
  • gender
  • good and evil
  • heroism
  • hierarchy
  • honour
  • illness
  • kingship
  • loyalty and betrayal
  • nature
  • order
  • power/status
  • regicide
  • religion
  • sanity
  • supernatural
  • treachery
  • tyranny
  • violence

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of the relationship between the play and the contexts in which it was written, set and performed (AO3)
  2. Analysis of form (AO2)

In this lesson