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Starter: In any Shakespearean comedy there are three worlds operating:

Starter: In any Shakespearean comedy there are three worlds operating:. The Old World. The Green World. The New World. What do you think these worlds might be?. Learning Objective – to explore the different worlds in Shakespeare’s comedies and to explore Borachio’s plan. . The Old World.

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Starter: In any Shakespearean comedy there are three worlds operating:

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  1. Starter: In any Shakespearean comedy there are three worlds operating: The Old World The Green World The New World What do you think these worlds might be?

  2. Learning Objective – to explore the different worlds in Shakespeare’s comedies and to explore Borachio’s plan. The Old World This world belongs to parental figures and figures of authority. It is usually repressive and urban, There is generally a lack of freedom due to the laws and established ways of doing things. This world is rejected by the young people who find it unsympathetic to their needs. The old world may only be seen for a short while in the play and we can probably project backwards in time to understand its operation further. What examples can we find?

  3. The Green World This second world often takes place in a forest, or wood or another non-urban environment. It is a world of freedom, but it is also a world of confusion. The forest is often seen as magical and dangerous. It is an environment suited to fairies, disguises, misinformation and mix-ups. The green world represents disorder. What examples can we find?

  4. The New World This is the world created out of the resolution in the play. It is a world that has learned from its past mistakes and has resolved any previous problems. Usually, characters return from the ‘green world’, often back into the urban world, but this time a new order is established. This is symbolised by several elements – notably a marriage, or very often multiple marriages. Multiple marriages are important because they can cut across all classes of people and suggest social harmony. Often there is a celebration or feast or dance and a character speaks an epilogue to emphasise social harmony and resolution. Marriage offers resolution and hope for the future: love is perceived as an irrational and uncontrollable force (the green world) and marriage is a way of controlling and managing love in the new world.

  5. What did we learn about Dogberry and Verges last lesson? What did we suggest their role was in the play? Dogberry and Verges provide welcome comic relief amid Don John’s evil plotting. Their brand of humour is completely different from that provided by Beatrice and Benedick, while the two antagonists argue with a brilliant display of wit, Dogberry and Verges get half their words wrong, providing humour with their ignorance. Yet, like Beatrice and Benedick they are in their own good-hearted and sincere and the humour of both duos, sophisticated Vs unsophisticated hinges on punning and verbal display.

  6. Borachio lists a few factors that might make the deception of Claudio and Don Pedro acceptable. What are they and how do we as the audience respond?

  7. How do we feel about Claudio at the moment? Why? Claudio’s swift anger and the terrible revenge he has vowed for Hero has remained troubling to generations of critics as has Don Pedro’s complicity in this desired revenge.

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