interpretation

multiple interpretations but add your own opinion

engage with critics - can it be seen differently to them? do you agree with it?

mention audience and shakespeare

• Isabella could be viewed as frustrating, she is saved in the end (one interpretation)

read question

• EFFECT of sexual behaviour, effect on audience

• what are the effects?

  • marriage, increase of duke’s authority, his narcissism

dont overcomplicate it

• you could look at this lens and this lens, ultimately this is how i feel about it

• ie do we like angelo’s advances, do we feel sorry for isabella, satisfied, dissatisfied???

dont have to attach a label to interpretations

quotations

• how do you respond to this quote? diff interpretations

• moment of the play

• specific textual evidence or moments

thesis, argument of essay

there will be some form of trigger word

• women, honesty, love

• isolate different forms of the trigger words, choose some and expand

  • honesty - duke is calculated, trying to restore authority or deceitful?

changes in critics over time

• contemp response vs modern response

• critic pack is in chronological order

bank universal critics

• every reader feels some indignation when angelo is spared - johnson