Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

RTÉ Drama on One

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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01 - Why study Shakespeare's King Lear

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 2 min

An introduction to the Bard

02 - Two families Gloucester and Lear

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 1 min

There are two families in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear – Goneril, Regan and Cordelia Lear and Edmund and Edgar Gloucester –and their fathers!

03 - Scene Study Act 1 Scene 1

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 8 min

The Love Test and the word ‘Nothing’. Lear divides his kingdom and abdicates responsibility.

04 - The structure and economy of King Lear

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 2 min

A look at the language in the play

05 - King Lear - Subplot, information and letters

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 7 min

Two stories in tandem.

06 - Scene study - Act 1 Scene 2

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 2 min

The Gloucester family storyline – Edgar and Edmund.

07 - Scene Study Act 1 Scene 2

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 4 min

Edmund manipulates Edgar without telling a lie.

08 - A pessimistic world view?

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 4 min

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. )

09 - Two favourite quotes

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 1 min

Edmund in Act 5 Scene 3 in the camp near Dover “This speech of yours hath moved me, And shall perchance do good: but speak you on; You look as you had something more to say.” And Lear in Act 3 Scene 2 “Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee!"

18 - Scene study - Act 3 Scene 4

Lear in Lockdown - Studying King Lear

03/09/21 • 5 min

The Storm Scene. Lear recognises ‘need” as he moves towards self-realisation.

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