How do you deliver disturbing, even horrific news to someone important?

As if losing a battle wasn’t bad enough, Westmoreland has to tell his sovereign about atrocities carried out on their dead soldiers …

In 2019, my ‘Forensic Friday’ project was in full swing, reaching episode 15.

It’s a great example for A-Level students of the my philosophy: skills, not answers. Once you understand how Shakespeare’s language works, you can apply that knowledge to almost any extract.

Looking back at the post, I’m intrigued by how much has remained from the way I used to teach Shakespeare, and how much has been refined. I’m not sure anything has actually been discarded.

Forensic Friday (015): 1 Henry IV: I.i

Over to you: tell me about a text you remember where someone had to deliver very bad news to someone else …

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Old posts. Still thinking them through.