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MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySundayText focus: Read Act 1 Sc 1 – Character focus: OrsinoKey passage –lines 1-41 Orsino in loveAO2 focus: Explore extreme emotions and imagery, definitions of comedy – consider generic conventions. Make a table listing the ways in which Twelfth Night adheres to generic conventions of comedy and tragedy. Find a critical view to support bothre-read: Shakespearean comedy resource Text focus: Act 1 sc 2Character focus: ViolaFurther study: comparison of similarities and differences between Viola and OlivaTheme analysis: disguise and concealment/deception – track all referencesConsider setting: the ‘other world’ of IllyriaText focus: Act 1 sc3Key passage –lines 1-11 drinkingCharacter focus: Sir Toby (learn his first line as a key quote to sum up character)Analyse the new set of characters: the fun, earthy ‘downstairs’ characters rather than the romantic ‘upstairs’ characters. Analyse relationships between them and other characters.Ao2 focusConsider Shakespeare’s use of language:Iambic pentameter (blank verse) and prose. When is each used, by whom and why?Analyses use of namesText focus: Act 1 sc 4Key passage –lines 1-41 Viola in love Character focus: Cesario (first appearance) Collect descriptionsAO2 focus: use of asidesText focus: Act 1 Scene 5Key passage –lines 134-274 Olivia in love Character focus: FesteResearch the role of the fool in Shakespeare – compare with King Lear, The Winter’s Tale and As You Like ItAo2 focus:Punning and word playNote building of Olivia’s characterNote foreshadows of what is to comeResearch attitudes to love, beauty and mortality found in Shakespeare’s sonnets. Note similarities with this scene.Text focus: Act 1 Scene 5Character focus: Malvolio: read Shakespeare’s Gull from the English Review. Select useful quotations. Plot Malvolio’s journey through the play. Identify key points.Evaluate who feels hostility towards him and why (cross reference with Act 2 sc 3 party scene).Revise Elizabethan attitudes towards Puritans.Make a note of all the problems that have been established in Act 1. Create a table to show crisis and resolutionCreate a timeline of the main events of text numbered 1-20. Note links between scenes, where we swap from main to subplots etc.Read RSC Education Pack selection helpful referencesMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySundayText focus: Act 2 Scene 1Key passage –lines 1-36 Antonio in loveCharacter focus: SebastianCompare this scene with Act 1 Scene 2 – differences between Seb and ViolaText focus: Act 2 sc 2Viola’s problemKey passage –lines 17-41 knots tangles and love trianglesAO2 focus: dramatic irony (we know Seb is alive)Analyse soliloquyResearch the theme of gender. Read gender and sexual identity resourceText focus: Act 2 sc 3The PartyConsider as a source of physical comedyKey passage –lines 1-108 drinking part 2!Character focus: Maria (subplot)AO2 analyse Feste’s songConsider the different types of songAct 2 sc 4 – Orsino and Cesario talk about loveNote change of mood and musicKey passage –lines 13-40 and 72-122 Violoa’s sister in loveAO2 focus: dramatic irony, disguiseWider reading: Read Shakespeare’s narrative poems: ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape of The Lucrece’Theme analysis: love and sexual desire. Consider the presentation through the different characters. Find quotes.Act 2 Sc 5: the gulling of MalvolioKey passage –lines 1-155 Malvolio in loveConsider the way an actor may interpret this scene.Research Elizabethan fashion: yellow stockings??Wider Reading: attitudes towards madness (on blog)Research bear baiting (Elizabethan) Act 3 sc 1: Key passage –lines 1-59 Folly and fooleryConsider how this scene continues from Act 11 sc4. Analyse both sides of the argument: find quotes from Olivia and CesarioRead through your lecture day notes selecting useful quotationsMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySundayText focus: Act 3 sc 2Character focus: Sir AndrewIdentify clues to his pare with Malvoilo (in terms of gulling)Consider how the subplot ‘mirrors’ the main plotText focus: Act 3 sc 3Character focus: AntonioConsider the homoerotic reading of Antonio and research Courtly love conventions Consider dramatic purpose of their strong friendshipText focus: Act 3 sc 4Midsummer Madness!One of the two longest scenes. Break it down carefully into parts featuring different characters.Research: Sir Christopher Hatton (possible source of Malvolio)Text focus: Act 3 sc 4AO2 focus: The challenge – analyse Sir Andrew’s piece of writing for absurd language (Shakespeare invents 1700 words of the English language!)Text focus: Act 3 sc 4Consider each:Olivia and CesarioThe DuelTrouble for AntonioHope for ViolaNote that this is where we sense the end of the story comingText focus: Act 4 sc 1Sebastian and OliviaClosely analyse and compare with Act 4 sc 3Read Cambridge Student Guide to Context (photocopied resource)Explore the relevance of the play (link to historical, social and political context)Consider the norms and order and the dominant ideologies of the dayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySundayText focus: Act 4 sc 2Character focus: Sir TopasNote all references to madnessResearch the use of the dark room in Elizabethan times as a treatment for madness (usually considered to be possession by the devil).Consider ways of staging this scene AO2 focus: Consider the symbolism of colour (Parson’s black gown, yellow stockings, puritanical black clothes, topaz (bright blue) etc,Consider whether audiences would feel sympathy for Malvolio (argument for and against, see past essay feedback)Consider how funny this scene is.Text focus: Act 4 sc 3Seb and Olivia get married.Consider how Shakespeare has developed Seb’s character in this pare with Act 4 sc 1NB Shakespeare slip up? Note Olivia never calls Seb Cesario – but if they got married, surely his name would have to be used? Is this the only slip up in the play? E.g. did Viola dress as a Eunuch? Act V Sc1Key passage –lines45-128, 206-77, 367-404 This most happy wreckViola and Sebastian reunitedNote the resolution of both sub and main plots.Consider the difference between romantic love and the reality of marriage (biographical context – Shakespeare married at 18)Make a note of all the different recognitions that happenConsider the ending of conventional romantic comedies – does this conform? Analyse the song: ‘the wind and the rain.’AO2 focus: motifs: Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.Letters, messages and tokensTimed essay. Take any of the following propositions and plan an argument (how far, and in what ways do you agree)‘Twelfth Night is a masquerade, slightly grotesque’‘Twelfth Night is a silly play and its title is misleadingly unrelated to its subject matter’ – Samuel Pepys.‘Excess is the dominant trait of defining all the major characters of the play’s opening sequence’ (Orsino, Olivia, Sir Toby)Come up with your own!Timed essayRead Arden edition Introduction, select useful quotations and things that help you understand the text.Checklist: What you need to know/revision ideasShakespeare’s life, works and historical context: create a timeline if necessary especially 1601 when play was likely written – eg maps drawn and voyages taking place at this time. Note references to important historical events in the play (e.g. in Act 3 sc 2)Sources of the play: short story and Italian play – what were they?Research definitions and types of comedy (Jonson and Sydney)Research contemporary critics (Dryden, Doctor Johnson, Samuel Pepys.)Research the RenaissanceResearch the role and life of the Elizabethan actor (note Feste’s request for payment as a professional entertainer)Generic conventions of Elizabethan romantic comedy (definitions of comedy). EXT: tragic elements?Research the Feast of Twelfth Night, epiphany and subversion of social hierarchyRead up on and consider importance of the second title: What You Will. Explore connotations.Research conventions of carnival, establish links to Twelfth NightResearch attitudes to madness (contemporary and modern)Research Puritanism: who was Sir William Knolly? Merchant classes, hypocrisy, relevant modern day connections to corrupt politicians?Staging: understand The Elizabethan theatre: consider use of music, track use of music throughout play – dramatic function?Setting of Twelfth night: gardens and households, the sea and IllyriaCreate mind-maps for each theme: love (the different types in the play), disguise, festive spirit, deception (track each throughout the play)Consider how characters have been grouped, create mind-maps to show links, similarities, differences, pare different adaptations, compare reviews: Trevor Nunn film vs Windsor Theatre production, directorial choices, staging etc. Read RSC education pack.Plan exam style questionsWrite propositions and create arguments for and against. Consider the differences in audience reaction over time: e.g. madness, homosexuality, gender stereotypes, aliens in a foreign land, social class differences, attitudes towards marriage.Closely analyse soliloquies – e.g. Viola Act 2:1-2Analyse how the plot is ‘untangled’ consider your response: loose ends? Realistic? Effective? Satisfying?Explore the motif of doubling, twins (see also Comedy of Errors) and mirroring as a dramatic device, consider pairs of characters and identify similarities and differences.Explore wit, puns and wordplayCollect critical terminology and practice applying them: Anagnorisis, Aside, Soliloquy, Stichomythia, blazonMake sure you understand AOs and weighting (Ao2 20%, ao1 15% ao3 and ao5 5%Structural features: main plot, sub plot, conventions of comedyLanguage features: imagery, (Shakespeare criticised by early critics for over use e.g. John Dryden) poetic verse, blank verse (iambic pentameter), prose, puns, antitheses (opposition of words and phrases against each other e.g. but if you are the devil you are fair! , paradoxes, oxymoron, metaphor, pathos, dramatic irony, use of lists, blazon (itemised, idealised features of a loved one), repetition e.g. Andrew repeats what Toby has said or a repeated word, rhyming couplets, reference to classical mythology e.g. sc 1 reference to deer from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Olivia therefore likened to goddess Diana. ................
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