| Chaucer
A Level only
Age range: 14 - 18
Duration: 1hr 30 mins
Cost: £40 per group
Group size: 30
There will be a dedicated Chaucer Workshop with textual
focus decided by the participating school.
Chaucer and Radio Soap Opera
This workshop will look at the historical context of Chaucer's
work and how social, cultural, religious, literary and biographical
factors impacted on this.
There will also be a brief history of the factors which led
to the changes from Medieval to Modern English and a
quick guide to the pronunciation of Medieval English and the
linguistic conventions of Chaucer's work.
They will look at factors within the text with relevance to
modern mores and conventions - how the Medieval English differed
from and were similar to us.
Students will then be asked, in groups, to update a passage
from the selected text for a modern day
audience - changing the language, setting, etc. This can
be done in the form of a monologue,speech or piece of scripted
radio drama.
An optional second session can be booked with our recording
engineer, who will record the finished dramas
and instruct students in how to edit these and add sound effects
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