Drama: Richard (II)
BY Williams Shakespeare
Subject: Literature-in-English
Theme: Drama
Topic: Richard (II) BY Williams Shakespeare
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Class: S.S 2
Average Age: 12 years and above
Duration: 35 Minutes
No of Learners: 40
Background and setting
1. Richard II (i) Author's background: an English dramatist of the Elizabethan period2. Cultural setting Elizabethan world view: belief in natural orderliness of the universe and the divinity" of kingship.
Plot:
1. Henry Bolingbrake and his supporters struggled for power.2. Richard II's wallowing in flattery leads to his fall.
3. Elizabethan, African and Greek world view in relation to the play.
4. Leads students to discuss the relationship between Elizabethan African and Greek world views.
Theme:
1. Nothing in life is absolute not even royalty and the divine right of kings2. Richard II's self-transformation through suffering from a self-conceited king to a humble and intensely afflicted person