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In Cold Blood: before reading 2 - Time and Space
These pre-reading activities are designed to connect to the area of exploration Time and space, also incorporating the concepts of culture, identity and representation. Time and space: the context of...
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Act 1b: Martha, George, Nick Honey
With all the characters here present, different tensions are established, which increase throughout the Act. Your initial focus might be on the presentation of Nick and Honey as foils to the characters...
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Act 1a: George and Martha
The first scene of any play, like the first chapter of a novel, is important for so many reasons - not the least the fact that it sets the context from which everything else will follow. The opening of...
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In Cold Blood: Before reading 1 - Readers, writers and texts
These pre-reading activities are designed to connect to the area of exploration Readers, writers and texts and also incorporate the concepts of creativity, perspective and representation. In Cold Blood...
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Literary Works
Linked from this page you will find study guides for a selection of literary works that are frequently studied as part of the programme. Many of the study guide pages are written directly for students...
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In Cold Blood Study Guide
Welcome to this study guide on Truman Capote's 1966 non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, a text that is frequently studied as a non-fiction text on the course. Capote is on the Prescribed reading List (PRL) for...
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Act 5: the climax
The final act of the play presents resolution of the play's central conflicts, although much of it is presented in terms of death, suffering and grief. There is a great deal to explore - for example,...
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Act 4
As things move towards the play's climax, we are presented with increasing cause for sadness and despair, but also hope. The scenes in act 4 mediate between these two extremes, and present the tension...
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Act 3: the storm
The storm, as both a literal event and a more figurative motif, comes halfway through the play and carries very significant theatrical weight. Reflective of the disorder that is increasingly characteristic...
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Act 3 Scene 7: The blinding of Gloucester
This final scene of Act 3 is one of the most famous, and certainly the most memorable in all of Shakespeare's plays, in the main because of its stomach-churning onstage violence. There is plenty to explore...