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Background Activities

Discover Elizabethan Theatre – Presentation Task

• Elizabethan Theatre
• Elizabethan Theatre Facts
• English Renaissance Theatre
• Shakespeare's Globe
• Morality Play
• Medieval Drama: An Introduction to Middle English Plays
• English Civil War

Background Reading Discussion Topics

Elizabethan England

• Elizabethan Era
• Elizabethan Era
• Elizabethan England (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)
• The Elizabethans Overview
• Early Elizabethan England (1558–88) – Timeline of Key Events
• Elizabeth's Spy Network
• The Puritans

Religion in Tudor England

• The Protestant Reformation
• Protestant Reformation
• Tudors: Religion
• The Tudor Society

Popular Representations of the Devil and the Bargain

• Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle
• Robert Johnson Blues Foundation
Crossroad:

Walk-through Activities

Scene I

Further Reading

• 'Lend a Paw', Walt Disney
• Psychomachia
• 'The Aeneid', Virgil

Did You Know?

• 'THE OPPOSITE OF SOMETHING' by Dana Goudreault

Scene II

Further Reading

• The Four Humours

Did You Know?

• Translate Latin to English
• Translate Latin to English

Scene III

Further Reading

• Wikipedia: The Chain of Being:
• Elizabethan Era Chain of Being Theory

Scene V

Further Reading

• Words Beginning With 'Homo-'

Scene VI

Context

• Sir Walter Raleigh: Suicide
• John Donne: Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition, With Introduction and Commentary
• Renaissance View

Further Reading

• Renaissance Astrology
• 'The Flea', John Donne

Did You Know?

• History of Astrology in the Renaissance
• Renaissance Astrology
• Hans Lippershey

Scene VII

Did You Know?

• Collins' Scrabble Dictionary

Scenes XV, XVI and XVII

Further Reading

• Elizabethan Food

Did You Know?

• Elizabethan Cost of Living
• Food & Drink in the Elizabethan Era

Whole-text Activities

Characterisation

Mephistophilis

• Mephistopheles
• Mephistopheles
• Devil in the arts and popular culture
• The Devil in Literature
• Satan and the origin of evil

Critical Reception

• Analysis of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
• Criticism on Faustus

The Writer's Use of Language (AO2)

Folly

• 'In Praise of Folly'
• 'In Praise of Folly', by Desiderius Erasmus

Genre

How Gothic is Doctor Faustus?

• What is Gothic literature?

Form (AO2)

Tragedy

• Tragedy
• Tragedy
• Tragedy
• Greek terms used in tragedy

Comedy

• Comedy
• Comedy (drama)
• Comedy
• 13 Types of Comedy: Popular Types of Comedic Performance

Morality Play

• Morality play
• What is a morality play? (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)
• Morality plays

Context (AO3)

Other Contextual Factors

• Elizabethan Era
• Shakespeare's Globe
• The Tudor Society
• Modern theatre vs Tudor theatre
• Christopher Marlowe