Last minute revision for A2 students

Stephen Fry on Shakespeare and Love BBC iPlayer This link won't work for long so make the most of it... x Have a listen/watch for revision?
BBC iPlayer Stephen Fry on Shakespeare and love

Seamus Heaney died today

 

BBC Obituary

LIVE SCREEING OF "OTHELLO"

26th September 7pm at cinemas is Bristol and Swindon
Adrian Lester as Othello and Rory Kinnear as Iago. You should try to see it.


Here's the booking link

Book Drum Help with Wider Reading

You must check this site out. It is really excellent and will help you in your study of Love Through the Ages.
e.g Just click on "Tess of the D'urbervilles" and you will find links to really useful resources to help your study.
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BOOK DRUM

The BBC Animated Canterbury Tales Chaucer

Oxford University Resources for A Level Students

Oxford University offer a wealth of resources to A Level Students. This site presents Lectures, ebooks, essays and contextual materials and all absolutely free! You should definitely visit.
Oxford University Resources for Literature A Level students

University Lectures for A Level Students

This site is well worth a browse. Leeds University have created a series of audio/visual podcasts for A Levels in Secondary Schools. They offer a range of podcasts on Shakespeare, Novels and Poetry as well as helping to prepare you for study at University. Check it out.
Leeds University English Faculty Podcasts for Secondary Schools

Your imagination is more powerful than you think

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Listen to some great literature on Radio 4. novels and plays dramatised

An extremely simplified plot summary of "Othello"

A Woman of no Importance Radio Adaptation Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Radio Adaptation of A Woman of no Importance

CONGRATULATIONS MALMESBURY SCHOOL AS and A2 ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS! You are amazing! Really amazing.
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Look at the stages of Coutly Love outlined below. Map them onto The Miller's Tale. Indicate similarities and differences. Use quotations for each stage as well. You might try mapping Joli Absolon and  Hende Nicholas. Very often the differences will result in humour/ satire.

The Stages of Courtly Love:
1. Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes/glance
2. Worship of the lady from afar
3. Declaration of passionate devotion
4. Virtuous rejection by the lady
5. Renewed wooing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty
6. Moans of approaching death from unsatisfied desire (and other physical manifestations of lovesickness)
7. Heroic deeds of valor which win the lady's heart
8. Consummation of the secret love

9. Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection

BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Metaphysical poets

Worth a listen!
Click on the site below and listen to views about John Donne's, The Flea.  Andrew Marvel's "To his Coy Mistress". There are also bits on Andrew Marvel and how they rethink Love Poetry.
You'll also find links to some useful sites to help with context.

BBC Radio Melvyn Bragg on The Metaphysicals

Quotations to think about...

KEY QUOTATIONS

Love Through The Ages Exam Section A Planning Grid - Drama

Planning Grid Drama Section A