Shakespeare and Film Unit A661

Controlled Assessment: UNIT A661 LITERARY HERITAGE LINKED TEXT in English Literature Shakespeare and Film/Audio/Live performance This task is linked with Poetry under UNIT A661 Candidates choose one of four Shakespeare plays: Julius Caesar or Macbeth or The Merchant of Venice or Romeo and Juliet and a film, audio version or live performance of their chosen play.

One task is set on the Shakespeare text studied linked to a film, audio version or live performance.

For example,

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Text

Any version of the play, film versions, audio versions, live theatre productions

Task

Remind yourself of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 3 Scene 4 in the text and in one or two performed versions of the play.

Using this scene as a starting point, and referring to Shakespeare’s text as a whole, explore how the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are portrayed in the performed version(s) you have studied.

Outcome:

Task should be completed as a controlled assessment of up to three hours and a word limit of 1000 words.

AO’s covered: AO1 (10% of marks) and AO3 (15% of marks)

Total unit weighting: 25% (Shakespeare and Poetry task)

On the OCR website, there are two sample lessons for Romeo and Juliet and two for Macbeth. See below link:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gcse_2010/english/english_lit/documents/