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.
OCR's question on this play is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the play elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the play, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts as the play shows it, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
