Drama Pre-1770: Elizabethan & Jacobean (Hard copy)

Pre-1770 Drama: Elizabethan & Jacobean introduces the cultural, social, historical and literary contexts of the period through the study of substantial extracts from a range of set texts.

• 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.