Introduction to The Duchess of Malfi Act 1

 This covers Act 1 and specific contexts in the play (A03). I also look at conventions of Revenge Tragedy (A03) and comparisons with The Merchant'sTale (A04)

L6 Language students have been studying marketing and advertising. Here they have produced adverts promoting English Language at Woodhouse

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The Merchant's Prologue and Tale Video Tutorial 3: From the garden to the end of the text.

This final of 3 revision lectures covers Pluto and Proserpina in the garden and takes us on to the end of the tale. It touches on Chaucer's presentation of marriage women and Januarie. The tale is seen within the wider context of the other tales and other texts. (A03 Literary context)

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale Video Tutorial 2: From May's wedding to Damyan in the Garden

 This tutorial covers the text from the wedding night of Januarie and May up to Damyan entering the Garden.

This also covers the conventions of Courtly Love, Chaucer's use of Irony and allusion as well as aspects of language and verse structure.

Tutorial on The Merchant's Prologue and Tale: What to know about the beginning of the Prologue up to the wedding scene

Answering the Gothic Unseen question (1st video) The Haunted Man

Answering the Gothic Unseen extract question (3rd video) The Fall of The House of Usher

How to answer the Gothic Unseen question: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2nd video)

Here is another version of The Tempest to watch as part of your revision of the play directed by Antoni Cimoni

Recent Gothic work by our A level literature students

Teams L6 Language: Looking at the language in the media reporting on US protests then looking at a Lexis and Sentences question

Mr O'Shea looks at the contexts that influence the writing and reception of Dracula

OCR A level literature Gothic comparative question looking at Dracula and The Bloody Chamber collection.

AO3 contexts are worth 50%.
This lecture looks at the various contexts that impact the book and how to embed them concisely into your timed essay.

At each point I ask you to stop the presentation and work for ten minutes find specific illustrative examples in the text to explain the influence of the context.

Mrs Parks guides us through a Jungian, psychoanalytic interpretation of Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

This PowerPoint is based on an article I wrote that will be published in the emagazine in September entitled – ‘A Rite of Passage – a psychoanalytic interpretation of ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Harriet Parks

I will take you through a Jungian reading of Carter’s short story comparing it with Perrault's version of Bluebeard from Histoires au Contes du Temps Passe 1697

Mrs Parks has created a very useful powerpoint video on a range of contexts in The Bloody Chamber

If you go through this you will have a sound knowledge of the range of contexts that influence the writing and reception of The Bloody Chamber collection. Mrs Parks also offers advice on how you can incorporate this effectively into your written responses.

Interesting Website on Dracula

This includes various critical essays and seeing the novel from differenhttps://castledracula.weebly.com/t critical perspectives