- Introduces cultural, social and historical context through visual and textual material from the period and by modern historians.
- Explores themes such as religion, magic and superstition, order and disorder, gender, class, science and learning.
- Introduces ideas about comic and tragic genres, exploring their roots in Classical forms of drama.
- A case study of performances through the ages, allowing students to speculate on how context affects staging and interpretations.
- Offers modern critical readings, with activities to support understanding.
- Promotes close reading of the language of the plays, focusing on the texts as scripts.
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