The Duchess of Malfi Act 1 Teacher summary on what you should know

 Summary of main themes and characters in Act one. I also discuss the presentation of women in Act one and what makes this a tragedy. I make comparisons with Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale

Teacher revision video on The Bloody Chamber Collection

This covers contexts that you should know, particularly the literary context and how to write about it. 

I also look at the following areas:

The writer's intentions.

Carter's use of the short story form, the gothic form and fairy tale genre.

I give a brief overview of things to know about in:

The Bloody Chamber, Snow Child, Lady in The House, Mr Lyon and Tiger's Bride and Erl King.

Finally I look at how to consider the collection as a journey. I do not cover the Wolf stories

The Merchant's Prologue and tale: 5 minute revision on everything you need to know

 You have just completed your end of unit mock.

Abi, Lily and Feyza combine their knowledge to produce a 5 minute video on everything covered for The Merchant's Prologue and Tale. This is for the OCR A level Literature Poetry and Drama comparative question.

Additionally, here is a link to our Padlet revision page on this text. https://padlet.com/joshea30/sjeema4y2crm4or4

Documentary on Marriage in Chaucer's time

 

The Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi Contexts

Here are student made videos on each of the contexts of both texts. 

 1. The Literary context of The Merchant'sTale and Duchess of Malfi

2. A Sense of Place: The Importance of location in Duchess of Malfi and Merchant's Tale

3. A Woman's Place: Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi

4. The Secular Hierarchy

5. The Literary Context of Fableau and Tragedy

6. The Poet's and Playwright's life and work

7. The Secular Hierarchy

8. A sense of place in both texts

9. A woman's place in The Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi 

10. Chaucer: His life and work

11. The Literary Context of Chaucer's Merchant Tale and Duchess of Malfi

How to answer the OCR A level Tempest Extract Close Analysis Question 1a for Paper 1 (Act 5 scene 1)

Mr O'Shea revision tutorial on The Merchant's Prologue and Tale and The Duchess of Malfi

This tutorial covers comparisons between the two texts, contexts and important themes you should know about both texts.

Miss Mor explores the psychoanalytical reading (AO5) of The Tempest

This is excellent resource for your revision of The Tempest proposition question