Welcome...equipment out...ready to learn...Welcome...equipment out...ready to learn... Extended Essay Othello Lesson 10 LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of Iago’s and Othello’s relationship?

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences Structure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter, relationships, love, fraternity Extended Essay Text 1: Othello Starter: LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago? Focus on the relationship between Iago and Othello EITHER In groups decide on ONE word to describe their relationship at that point in the play at the beginning of the play In the middle of the play at the end of the play

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago? Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning. Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted. B4 B3 B2 Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

The Big Picture Extended Essay Text 1: Othello LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago?

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences Structure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter, relationships, love, fraternity Extended Essay Text 1: Othello In pairs or small groups, consider the play as a whole and choose 3 or 4 short extracts which you think highlight the changing relationship between Iago and Othello. Find evidence to support your ideas regarding the development of this relationship. Be ready to share your ideas with the rest of the class. LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago?

A pivotal point in the relationship occurs in Act 4 Scene 1. Read through your extract. In pairs complete the annotations using different coloured pens to highlight : Evidence Direct advice Innuendo Hints or rumours Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences Structure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter, relationships, love, fraternity Extended Essay Text 1: Othello LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago? Supported language analysis task Then decide what the language tells us about the characters and their relationship.

Use the conversation analysis sheet and the key on the previous slide to annotate and analyse another important conversation between Iago and Othello – try to make sure that as a class different parts of the play are covered. Be ready to share your findings! Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences Structure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter, relationships, love, fraternity Extended Essay Text 1: Othello LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s use of language and the presentation of the relationship between Othello and Iago? Independent language analysis task Ext: think about how audiences would react

Plenary: Sum it up in a sentence: how does Shakespeare use language to present the relationship between Othello and Iago? Extended Essay Text 1: Othello Ext: can you refer to this critical perspective to support your answer? So close are Iago and Othello that hey start to melt into each other. Not only does Iago take on Othello’s association with blackness, but Othello starts to take on Iago’s characteristic imagery and style of speech. In the early part of the play Iago and Othello speak differently, not only in the obvious sense that Iago uses much more prose than Othello does, but also in the contrast between Iago’s blunt and often coarse style and Othello’s stately and deliberately poetic speech. But in the last two Acts, as the two minds begin to fuse together, as Iago’s words give shape to Othello’s thoughts, so Othello starts to sound more and more like Iago. Othello’s grand verse breaks down into jagged disordered prose. Iago’s prose becomes triumphant verse. Fintan O’Toole, Shakespeare is Hard, But so is Life (1990, 2000)