Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

About Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

66 episodes to help you study Shakespeare's "King Lear" - including scene analysis with actor and director Alan Stanford, teachers and students sharing Leaving Cert sample answers, theme explainers, favourite quotes and the King Lear Quiz where (just like the Leaving Cert) all your favourite questions come up! Starring the students from Moyne Community School, Scoil Mhuire and St. Mel’s College, Longford, Carraigallen Vocational School, Leitrim. Compiled by RTÉ Radio 1's Drama on One team.

Publisher

RTÉ Drama on One

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Mar 2021

Latest episode

9 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

66 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Mar 2021

   08 - A pessimistic world view?

   Shakespeare's vision of the world in King Lear is essentially pessimistic. Would you agree. Discuss the view with suitable quotation and reference. (Cog sheet! How to answer a typical exam question interrogated and analysed through introduction, body of answer and conclusion. )

2. 

   9 Mar 2021

   10 - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 4

   The value of Nothing - Lear, Kent and role of The Fool as Lear's conscience

3. 

   9 Mar 2021

   47 - Why Cordelia and The Fool don’t meet in King Lear

   Why Cordelia and The Fool don’t meet in King Lear. Some thoughts.

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