King Lear for Litdrive

‘Shownotes’ for my presentation for Litdrive on January 7th 2023 on teaching the end of King Lear.

• The slides, as a PDF.

• Slide 5 - Professor Jennifer Roberts: The Power of Patience: Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention (2013).

• Slide 6 - Boy with a Flying Squirrel by John Singleton Copley.

• Slide 9 - Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ at the National Gallery of Ireland. And the BBC documentary on its amazing discovery.

• Slide 15 - 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro: notes on the relevant chapter, about Shakespeare’s reshaping of the source.

• Slide 19 - Emma Smith’s Oxford podcast lecture on the play in the series Approaching Shakespeare.

• Slide 20 - Clockwise: clip of John Cleese on hope/despair.

• Slide 24 - Nahum Tate’s version.

• Slide 32 - Lear resources - flashcards, retrieval grids, sequence grids, podcasts, essays, book recommendations. Also similar on Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello.