How Shakespeare presents The Nurse, and how the character develops across the text: comic, bawdy and loving, Juliet's confidante until she advises her to marry Paris.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed', 'Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days', 'Your love says, like an honest gentleman', 'I think it best you married with the county', 'Romeo's a dishclout to him', 'Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!'.
Her prose, bawdy humour and long-winded speech as a contrast to Juliet, and her betrayal in Act 3 Scene 5.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
