Othello Knowledge Organisers: Plot, Characters, Critics and Context (AQA A-level)

AQA A-level English Literature A knowledge organisers for Othello: four two-page organisers covering the whole play, the characters, the critics and the context, with every quotation checked against the Folio-based text.

AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Paper 1 Section A: Love through the ages, Othello

What’s included (8-page PDF)

• Part one: Acts 1–2, Venice to Cyprus, scene by scene
• Part two: Acts 3–5, the temptation scene to the final scene
• Part three: characters and critics for AO5, including Bradley, Leavis, Eliot and Coleridge
• Part four: context (Cinthio, race, gender, the Ottoman threat) and love through the ages
• Key terms, eight key quotations and an interpretations table in every part
• A Section A practice question with a plan in every part

How to use it

Revision and retrieval practice for a closed-book exam: cover a panel and test yourself, or use the practice questions for timed writing.

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