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Macbeth for AQA

English Literature
GCSE
Level 2
4 chapters
40 Lessons
6 Free lessons

Exam board-specific online course, featuring fast-paced tutorials taught by Carolyn, practice and test mode quizzing and checkpoint assessments preparing you for your MacBeth study. We recommend that you study The Roadmap course along with this course.

Introduction to Macbeth
Plot and context
Lesson (1/0) 1
Historical Context: Shakespeare and King James
Lesson (2/0) 2
Historical Context: Gender, Elizabeth I and Witchcraft
Lesson (3/0) 3
Literary Context: Publishing and Theatre
Lesson (4/0) 4
Literary Context: Tragedy
Lesson (5/0) 5
Plot
Hints for reading the play
Lesson (1/0) 1
Overcoming Barriers to Understanding
The Play
Act 1
Lesson (1/0) 1
Scenes one and two. 'Brave Macbeth.'
Lesson (2/0) 2
Scene Three. 'Thou shalt be king hereafter.'
Lesson (3/0) 3
Scenes Five. 'Unsex Me Here.'
Lesson (4/0) 4
Scenes Six and Seven. 'Vaulting Ambition.'
Lesson (5/0) 5
Scene Seven Part Two. 'When you durst do it, then you were a man.'
Act 2
Lesson (1/0) 1
Scene One. 'There's husbandry in heaven.'
Lesson (2/0) 2
Scene One, Part Two. 'Is this a dagger I see before me?'
Lesson (3/0) 3
Scene Two. 'Macbeth does murder sleep.'
Lesson (4/0) 4
Scene Two, Part Two. 'My hands are of your colour.'
Lesson (5/0) 5
Scene Three. 'This place is too cold for hell.'
Lesson (6/0) 6
Scene Three Part Two. 'O horror horror horror!.'
Lesson (7/0) 7
Scene Four. 'Darkness does the face of earth entomb.'
Act 3
Lesson (1/0) 1
Scene One. 'To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.'
Lesson (2/0) 2
Scene Two. 'We have scorched the snake not killed it."
Lesson (3/0) 3
Scenes Three and Four. 'Let it come down'
Lesson (4/0) 4
Scene Four. 'Never shake thy gory locks at me.'
Lesson (5/0) 5
Scenes Five and Six. 'Things have been strangely borne.'
Act 4
Lesson (1/0) 1
Scene One. 'Something wicked this way comes.'
Lesson (2/0) 2
Scene Two. 'What, you egg!'
Lesson (3/0) 3
Scene Three. 'Alas, poor country.'
Act 5
Lesson (1/0) 1
Scene One. 'Out, damned spot!'
Lesson (2/0) 2
Scenes Two, Three and Four. 'Give me my armour.'
Lesson (3/0) 3
Scene Five. 'Out, out brief candle.'
Lesson (4/0) 4
Scenes Six, Seven and Eight. 'Lay on, Macduff!'
The Big Picture
Characters
Lesson (1/0) 1
Lady Macbeth
Lesson (2/0) 2
Macbeth
Lesson (3/0) 3
The Supporting Cast
Themes and Motifs
Lesson (1/0) 1
Themes and Motifs
Meeting the assessment objectives
Lesson (1/0) 1
Matters of Language, Structure and Form

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