Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

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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.

  1. 09/03/2021

    01 - Why study Shakespeare's King Lear

    An introduction to the BardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    3 min

  2. 09/03/2021

    02 - Two families Gloucester and Lear

    There are two families in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear – Goneril, Regan and Cordelia Lear and Edmund and Edgar Gloucester –and their fathers!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 min

  3. 09/03/2021

    03 - Scene Study Act 1 Scene 1

    The Love Test and the word ‘Nothing’. Lear divides his kingdom and abdicates responsibility.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    8 min

  4. 09/03/2021

    04 - The structure and economy of King Lear

    A look at the language in the playSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 min

  5. 09/03/2021

    05 - King Lear - Subplot, information and letters

    Two stories in tandem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    7 min

  6. 09/03/2021

    06 - Scene study - Act 1 Scene 2

    The Gloucester family storyline – Edgar and Edmund.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 min

  7. 09/03/2021

    07 - Scene Study Act 1 Scene 2

    Edmund manipulates Edgar without telling a lie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    5 min

  8. 09/03/2021

    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. )See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    4 min
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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.

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