A lesson designed to get students interrogating Shakespeare’s choices as a dramatist, moving their focus away from the text on page and towards the stage, where the Bard’s characters and plots come to life.
With the aid of the Shakespeare’s Globe 360 iOS app, analyse the staging and language of the famous ‘Balcony scene’ in Act 2 Scene 2 of of Romeo and Juliet, and reflect on its significance within the broader social context – and hierarchies in particular, of the time.
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KS4 English Lesson Plan – Use Romeo and Juliet to Analyse How Shakespeare’s Dramatic Choices Reflect the Social Context of the Time
