These four lessons prepare students to understand the elements and structure of drama, particularly Hamlet. It includes a glossary of dramatic and poetic terms, types of characters and their actions,script, theme, dramatic conflicts, hero typology, setting, plot, ethos, tone, hubris, character flaw, nemesis and fate.
One lesson explains how the poetic devices in dialogue intensify meaning, irony or bathos.
The lesson contains three exercises at the end whereby students can identify and apply wha