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

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

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.

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)

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

The Merchant's Tale and Duchess of Malfi context videos

These videos are useful for revising the various contexts of The Merchant's Tale and The Duchess of Malfi. This first one covers many different contexts and the following are more specific.






1. The Literary Context.


2. In Sickness and in Health




3. The Position of Women.


3.a The role of women in The Merchant's Tale and The Duchess of Malfi.


4. Pre and post Reformation


5. Religion in The Merchant's Tale and The Duchess of Malfi

6. The life and works of Chaucer and Webster

8. The Literary context of Chaucer and Webster






9. The Secular Hierarchy in The Merchant's Tale and The Duchess Of Malfi