Plot overview — The Tempest — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Plot overview
Introduction
What you need to know
The whole play in brief, act by act, and how Prospero's plan plays out in a few hours on one island.
Where each act's key moment falls, how the lovers' story, the lords' plot and Caliban's rebellion run side by side, and how the action takes about as long as a performance.
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.
