Year 8

Introduction to Tragedy

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    In this lesson, we will learn about the origins of tragedy in ancient Greece. We will then look at how Shakespeare evolved tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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    In this lesson, we will learn about how a hero can also be tragic. We will discover why all of Shakespeare's tragedies contain heroes with some fairly major psychological problems.
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    In our final lesson on tragedy, we will look at the structure that tragic stories follow, learn about a special pyramid invented by a German man called Freytag, and discover why most tragic heroes have only got themselves to blame.
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