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[NickyP]

Can the one essay question ask about themes, prodcutions and scenes all in the one big fat essay?
Do you think a knowledge of 2 scenes is enough? And can I pull questions out of anywhere in the text or only from the scenes that I mention?
I am really screwed for Lear...does anyone know what the question is going to be?

 

[Milly]

Well last year's pretty much did (although it didn't say you had to refer to specific scenes) so I suppose the answer is yes!

When making my notes I drew up a table with interpretations along the columns (I'm doing the same ones as you) and themes down the rows, just to put in a logical form how everything relates...

You could probably pull quotes from anywhere, as long as you don't fudge and try and say they're from a difference scene. If it's a themes question, maybe you could put in your stray quotes in when you're explaining the interpretation, and the quotes from the scenes you're doing when you're discussing those scenes...