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Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

Study Levels

Key Stage 4

Resource Type

Lessons

Activities

Characters

Banquo

Benvolio

Capulet

Donalbain

Duncan

Friar Lawrence

Juliet

Lady Capulet

Lady Macbeth

Lady Macduff

Macbeth

Macduff

Malcolm

Mercutio

Montague

Nurse

Paris

Prince Escalus

Romeo

Siward

The Porter

The Witches

Tybalt

Scenes

Act III, scene 1

Act III, scene 2

Act III, scene 4

Act III, scene 5

Act III, scene 6

Act II, scene 1

Act II, scene 2

Act II, scene 3

Act II, scene 4

Act II, scene 6

Act I, prologue

Act I, scene 1

Act I, scene 2

Act I, scene 3

Act I, scene 4

Act I, scene 5

Act I, Scene 6

Act I, Scene 7

Act IV, scene 1

Act IV, scene 2

Act IV, scene 3

Act V, scene 1

Act V, scene 2

Act V, scene 3

Act V, scene 4

Act V, scene 5

Act V, scene 7

Act V, scene 8

Themes

Ambition

Appearances vs Reality

Death

Family

Fate and fortune

Gender

Good vs Evil

Grief and Loss

Guilt

Hate

Hypocrisy, Duplicity and Integrity

Kingship

Love

Natural and the Supernatural

Order and chaos

Power and status

Public vs private

Racial formation

Sanity

Secrecy, Loyalty and trust

Succession

The Great Chain of Being

The Gunpowder Plot

Time

Tyranny and Corruption

Violence and conflict

Activity type

Actor insights

Character studies

Close reading and language analysis

Context explorations

Discussions and debates

Drama activities

Games

Guided writing task

Interviews with a director

Performance clips

Performance comparisons

Revision exercises

Starter activities

Up to 120 minutes

Language and Dramatic Features

Adjectives

Adverbs

Alliteration

Allusions

Antimetabole

Antithesis

Aptronym

Aside

Assonance

Blank verse

Blazon

Blocking

Casting

Catalectic

Choreography

Chremamorphism

Colour coding

Costume

Couplet

Diction

Double entendre

Dramatic irony

Equivocation

Euphemism

Figurative language

Fricatives

Gesture

Heroic couplet

Iambic pentameter

Innuendo

Juxtaposition

Leitmotif

Levels and verticality

Lighting

Metaphor

Metre

Music

Original practice

Oxymoron

Pace

Paradox

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathos

Pejorative language

Personification

Petrarchan sonnet

Physicality

Props

Prose

Proxemics

Repetition

Rhetorical question

Semantic field

Sentence types

Set

Shakespearean sonnet

Sibilance

Soliloquy

Sonnet

Sound

Staging

Structural techniques

Symbolism

Timings

Tone

Tripartite structure

Trochee

Voice

Word endings

Zoomorphism