DISGUISE AND DECEPTION

IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND

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Warmer – disguise and deception

Why might someone wear a disguise? Think of three reasons

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Task 1 – Who was the owner of the trunk?

Read the beginning of the text. Who was the owner of the trunk, a priest or a pedlar?

A priest A pedlar

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Task 5 – Jigsaw activity: disguise in two Shakespeare plays

Work in groups to put the summaries of Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It in the correct order

Hero (second from left) and Claudio (right) at the end of Much Ado About

Nothing

Rosalind, disguised as a man (centre), reading one of Orlando’s dreadful poems

in As You Like It