e) Forgive me. f) These killers will pay. g) Your wounds are like red mouths asking me to avenge them. h) Civil war will take over this country. i)
Chaos, destruction! Start the battles. j) You were the greatest man that ever lived. 2.
Imagine you are giving advice to an actor who has to perform this speech in an audition for the role. Explain clearly what the speech is about. Offer ideas on tone of voice (soft/loud); which words need emphasis; body positioning (sit/stand/kneel) and gestures. Use the words ‘tone’ and ‘tempo’ that you learned on page 331.
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Each person writes the title of the Shakespeare play you are studying. Check each other’s work, ensuring you have both used inverted commas around the play’s name, have spelled it correctly and have used capital letters where necessary.
Test each other on the spelling of the name, ‘William Shakespeare’. Together, choose a soliloquy from your studied play and name the character who speaks it.
Briefly, A explains to B the situation that occurred just before this soliloquy. Each then write the explanation.
Briefly, B explains to A the thoughts and feelings that are expressed by the character in the soliloquy. Each then write a paragraph about these thoughts and feelings. Then, working separately, you each write any five of its lines in modern English.
Swap your work over. You must each find the quotations in the soliloquy that match your modern English versions.
