Shakespearean Tragedy: Interiority and Persuasion on Stage: Reading Unit 3, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Shakespearean Tragedy: Interiority and Persuasion on Stage is Unit 3 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 1) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 85 pages.

• Soliloquy as structural analog and departure from the Greek chorus
• Tragic-structure vocabulary (hamartia, dramatic irony, catastrophe) applied to Hamlet
• Psychological hamartia in Hamlet
• Categories of dramatic irony in manipulation scenes
• Ethos/logos/pathos in Antony’s funeral oration
• The audience’s dual position as target and analyst of in-play rhetoric
• Structural function of an unseen soliloquy
• Appeal sequencing in an unstudied dramatic persuasive speech
• The knowledge/performance gap as dramatized through soliloquy vs. persuasive speech

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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