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Grade Level:
9 - 12
Literary Form:
World Drama
10 Lesson Plans/18 Handouts/61 Pages
ISBN:978-1-56077-290-3
Regular Price: $19.95
On Sale For: $14.95 |
Description:
This is a comedy rooted in seventeenth-century France during the reign of Louis XIV. It exposes human foibles and a hidden power struggle. Characters’ antics reveal common sense and wisdom, foolish pride, deviousness, bigotry, and hypocrisy. Tartuffe is timeless; as the audience watches the characters come uncomfortably close to danger, we are reminded of the behavior of prominent people today. Watching Tartuffe weasel his way into favor and out of trouble is remarkably like replaying contemporary national and international political scandals.
Activities:
Students work to recognize dramatic devices, techniques of farce, classical comedy, and satire. They are assigned role-play and dramatization activities, complete analytical and artistic assignments, conduct historical research, and analyze characters. Students react to literary criticism.
Supplementary materials include a test with answer key.
Ethical Values:
Compassion
Courage
Integrity
Respect
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