Checklist

 TaskDue byHow to submit
Complete costume pages (A3) for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and a Bouffon [must be annotated with 3 ‘layers’ of NOTESWednesday 4th DecemberOn the A3 sheets
Servant – comprehension type questions (50 marks available – ASSESSEDFriday 29th NovemberIn your Journal or on a word doc and printed.
Work on Clarice and Emotional Journey – on the BlogFriday 6th DecemberIn your Journal or on a word doc and printed.

THE LOVERS -MAKING COMEDY FROM THE SERIOUS

Discussion:

What is this word – why is it relevant to COMEDY.

Watch this film clip

1st impressions:

  1. Is it a funny scene?
  2. If so, who is it funny for – Silvio & Clarice or the Audience?
  3. What generates the comedy? (types of comedy – slap stick, language, exaggeration, role-reversal – acting against type?)
  4. Why is Silvio acting like this *(look at what happened in the scene before.)
  5. What is Smeraldina’s attitude to what she discovers?
  6. How does she behave?
  7. What quotes are memorable?
  8. Why is this RADICAL for the 18th century?