How to answer the Tempest extract question(Act 2 scene 2 subplot) summer 2026 L6 exam question

 

The Tempest Act 4 student made video on important moments

 

The Tempest Unseen Extract question Act 3 scene 3 Harpy scene

 Here is a teacher walk

through on how to answer this question

The Tempest The importance of Act 5 teacher lecture

 Here I explore Act 5 with regard to different A05 interpretations  

The Tempest A christian reading of the play in 7 minutes

 

Answering The Tempest extract question Act 3 scene 3

 

Answering The Tempest extract question act 2 scene 2

 

Answering The Tempest extract question Act 4 scene 1

Here is a teacher talk through response to answering the extract based question on paper 1 for The Tempest Act 4 scene 1

 

The Tempest: The important moments in Act 5 for the proposition question

 

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

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

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

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

Dr Emma Smith's lecture on The Tempest

Dr Emma Smith's talk on why we should study Shakespeare

Tempest Revision Videos created by lower 6th students

Here are some very useful revision turorial on The Tempest. They include character quotes, progression of character in the play and evidence for how the character supports different interpretations of the play.






                                         
                                                        1. Caliban in The Tempest

2. The Presentation of Women in The Tempest

3. Prospero in The Tempest

4. Subplots in The Tempest

Shakespeare Comedies and Tragedies. Know the conventions

It is really worthwhile to understand and recognise the conventions that Shakespeare follows when writing his comedies and tragedies. In terms of answering questions in exams, this understanding will inform your A04 Literary contexts and also AO2 awareness of Form. So it really pays to be aware of the conventions of each form, Comedy and Tragedy. I have made a video tutorial on each (below). The videos cover:Language (verse v prose), Characterisation, Structure, Plots,Contexts, Interpretations.

Teacher Feedback on Presentation of Caliban Essay

Here is my feedback on the essay "Caliban is presented as a noble being". How far do you agree with this presentation of Caliban in The Tempest?

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Archive

The In Our Time radio Programmes Archive are now available. Here you will find a wide range of radio programmes covering all the literary periods of your main texts. Hereis one on Oscar Wilde and The Aesthetes. There are also a series of Shakespeare Programmes to access. I have put a link on Twitter to the recent elizabethan Tragedies programme which will be useful for The Tempest and Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Video lectures from the world's leading universities

I have been on Oxford university's English department site writersinspire.org ( we have a link on the blog.) They have some great links to video lectures.See below. The Harvard University one on The Tempest is particularly interesting and you should watch it. Find them here .There is a separate link below for The Tempest Lecture.

UC Berkeley ItunesU
On ItunesU, the University of California at Berkeley has published some audio lectures from a series of UC Berkeley courses given by the hilarious and engaging Professor Charles F. Altieri. Download Itunes free of charge, click on ‘ItunesU’ in the store, and search Altieri.
English 45B: Altieri offers a survey of the western canon, including: Lectures 6 & 7: Jonathan Swift Lecture 10: William Blake Lecture 11: Romanticism Lecture 15 & 16: Jane Austen’s Emma
English 117S: Altieri’s course on Shakespeare, covering Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest
McGill University
Professor Paul Yachnin analyses Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in his podcast The Trial of Shylock.
University of Cambridge
Dr. Raphael Lyne offers his free online audio course, Shakespearean Comedy.
Columbia University
Columbia offers a free online digital exhibition, Shakespeare and the Book.
Harvard University
Professor Marjorie Garber offers an online video/audio course on Shakespeare’s later plays, from Measure for Measure to The Tempest great lecture Shakespeare After All.
MIT
Diana E. Henderson gives a guest lecture at MIT, “Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare“, about adaptations of Shakespeare over time.
University of Chicago
David Bevington talks about Ben Jonson and his project compiling an edition of the Collected Works of Ben Jonson here.
OpenCulture
The Open Culture website offers free online courses on Spenser and Milton and A Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays.

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.