Learners often find it difficult to link context to the analysis of the text (AO2).The following activities are designed to engage learners in using context to dig deeper into the text itself.
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Learners often find it difficult to link context to the analysis of the text (AO2).The following activities are designed to engage learners in using context to dig deeper into the text itself.
Select a quotation
Based on the quotation fill in the bubbles with relevant context before comparing your ideas with the suggestions.
'out of joint' may be linked to the Divine Right of Kings
Various links could be made to Hamlet's Renaissance mindset.
The idea of the 'body politic' may be linked to the joint metaphor
Context of genre: Hamlet feels the burden of revenge.
Could link to Elizabethan ideas about fate/ Medieval idea of the Wheel of Fortune
Based on the quotation fill in the bubbles with relevant context before comparing your ideas with the suggestions.
Could link specifically to Philip Sidney's ideas on Tragedy in 'Apology for Poetry'.
The nature of 'Tragedy' as a genre tended to focus on those in power and therefore the genre can be seen as inherently political and a commentary upon rulers of the time.
At the time professional theatre was a relatively new idea. Some critics see this 'newness' reflected in the 'self-conscious' or 'metatheatrical' elements of some of the plays.
Perhaps reflects the debate between those who saw the theatre as having a moral purpose and those who claimed that plays encouraged immorality by presenting bad behaviour