A lesson/lecture covering the socioeconomic conditions of the early modern - English renaissance - era. This can be taught as a masterclass to the Most Able at Year 11, or as general contextual background for an early modern A Level text. The focus in the second part is Macbeth but having personally taught many early modern texts, I know it can easily be adapted to all exam boards for GCSE and A Level.
Detailed Lessons on How to Approach the OCR A Level Literature Exams, includes:
Hamlet
Dystopia (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Ibsen and Rossetti
Detailed early modern context lesson
Resources include extracts and model responses
12 complete and very detailed lessons covering the entire play and all assessment objectives, including:
Analysis of every scene (Annotations left on slides)
Analysis of main characters
Relevant historical context
Tragic trajectory
Academic reading
Approaching the exam question
This scheme is for AQA syllabus B 7177, but is readily adaptable to other boards