👋🏽 Hi, I'm Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for your final exams. In this lesson, pay attention to what happens in each act and who knows which secret. Then tell the story in your own words. Just don't copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
Twelfth Night has a girl dressed as a boy, twins who look alike and three stories running at once. It's easy to mix up who did what, and in which act. An essay question can ask about moments from anywhere in the play.
So before we look closely at any one scene, we'll get the whole story straight.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
tell the whole play in five sentences, one for each act
say who knows each of the play's secrets, and when it comes out
put any key moment in its act and scene
read a page of the script and put a line of Shakespeare into your own words
In the full lesson, we go through the play act by act, with the lines to know for each big moment. Then you'll tell the story from memory and pick moments for a real question.
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Grab a pen. Here's the whole play in one minute.