1. LQ: Can I analyse the opening of Othello?
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AS Paper 1: Othello
Lesson 2
LQ: Can I analyse the opening of Othello?

2. Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences B4
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning B3
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning B2
Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?

3. LQ: Do I understand the coursework requirements
LQ: Do I understand the coursework requirements? Can I comment on aspects of context?
The Big Picture
Paper 1: Othello

4. EXT: how would different demographics react?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Starter:
Floyd Mayweather and Taylor Swift married in secret yesterday in a Las Vegas Chapel.
How has Twitter reacted this morning?
In 140 characters or less create a twitter response.
#swiftweather
EXT: how would different demographics react?
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

5. Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences
Dramatis Personae
OTHELLO, the Moor, general of the Venetian forces
DESDEMONA, his wife
IAGO, ensign to Othello
EMILIA, his wife, lady--in--waiting to Desdemona
CASSIO, lieutenant to Othello
THE DUKE OF VENICE BRABANTIO, Venetian Senator, father of Desdemona
GRATIANO, nobleman of Venice, brother of Brabantio
LODOVICO, nobleman of Venice, kinsman of Brabantio
RODERIGO, rejected suitor of Desdemona
BIANCA, mistress of Cassio
MONTANO, a Cypriot official
A Clown in service to Othello
Senators, Sailors, Messengers, Officers, Gentlemen, Musicians, and Attendants
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?

6. Important points Main points
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Important points
Main points
Ext: Can you make links to any of Shakespeare’s other tragedies?
Iago hates Othello because he has promoted Cassio ahead of him
Roderigo loves Desdemona
Desdemona marries Othello without her father’s permission
Brabantio is enraged both by his daughter’s disobedience and by her choice of husband
Othello is a valued military general but is still an outsider in Venice nonetheless
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

7. Questions for discussion:
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Questions for discussion:
What are your first impressions of the characters of Iago and Roderigo?
Have you any first impressions of the character of Othello?
What is the importance of the setting and what connection does the setting have in determining the play’s tragic nature?
Ext: Can you predict what will happen in the play?
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

8. LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Setting and structure
Shakespeare’s lifetime also coincided with what is sometimes referred to as the ‘Age of Discovery’. During the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, English merchant explorers travelled across the world, laying the foundations of the sugar and slave trades. Contact with a far wider range of people and cultures also affected English culture, and in Othello there are references to some of the fascination and fears aroused by conquest and discovery on this new, wider scale.
Shakespeare reflected these areas of change and debate in his work. In Othello, Venice can be seen to represent order and civilization. The Venetian Senate administers a system of social order and justice, built on ideals of rationality and democracy. But this social order is under threat from the forces of disorder, represented by the Turks, Iago with his cynical philosophy of self-interest, and by the dark and dangerous side of Nature itself. InCyprus, the main characters are exposed to these dark forces, which surround and threaten them. Under their influence, Othello’s own character becomes disordered, with tragic consequences.
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

9. Setting and structure cont…
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Setting and structure cont…
Structure and setting
The social hierarchy of Venice is removed once the characters arrive in Cyprus which means that the characters are weakened somewhat. Once in Cyprus and without the social constraints in place and with the natural order displaced, the characters are fully exposed to Iago’s Machiavellian ways and it is only here, that the true nature of Iago’s character is revealed
One way of looking at the structure of Othello is to see it in two parts: the first act, set in Venice, and the rest of the play, which takes place in a seaport in Cyprus. Venice represents the ‘civilised’ values of order, justice and democracy. A hierarchical system of leadership is securely in place, with the Duke standing in judgement and making sound decisions.
Cyprus, on the other hand, represents the dangers of disorder. There, the characters are surrounded by hostile seas and the threat of the Turks. Othello’s victory and marriage celebrations turn to anarchy and riot. In Act 3, Scene 3, a very long scene that is central to the play’s structure, we see Othello himself besieged by the forces of disorder in the shape of Iago. Othello’s personality becomes fatally distorted, governed by irrational passion and vulnerable to Iago’s brilliantly organised deceptions.
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

10. Main task Structure and setting
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Main task
Structure and setting
Ext: Are you able to start writing the dialogue for your characters?
Taking into account everything you know so far regarding the play’s character and plot, devise a similar situation in which the same circumstances apply.
You can deviate from character and plot but your ideas will need to allude to the themes that we have discussed today.
You will also need to make a similar reference to a change in location and be able to discuss the impact this change will have on your characters.
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

11. LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Plenary
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning
Feedback and review.
What original ideas have you come up with?
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
Paper 1: Othello
Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences

12. Extended Essay Text 1: Othello
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello? B4
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning B3
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
Extended Essay Text 1: Othello B2
Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning