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Knowledge Base: English The Hound of the Baskervilles - Play Year 7 | Summer Term 2
Techniques
3.1
stage directions
The instructions to the director about how a stage should be set up OR the instructions given to the actors telling them how to speak and how to act. Normally these are in [square brackets]
3.2
entrances & exits
When characters come onto the stage or leave the stage. Often this is done to achieve a specific effect.
3.3
lighting
Lighting is used on stage to highlight particular characters, events or settings. The lighting is also used to help create a mood.
3.4
music & sound
Sometimes the music is used to create a mood and sometimes sounds are used to help establish setting. i.e the sound of a train station.
3.5
props
Important objects that are used to help establish character (i.e. Sherlock Holmes’ violin)
3.6
monologue
A part of the play where one character is speaking, sometimes directly to the audience
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Characters
1.1 Sherlock Holmes The famous private detective, who uses his powers of deduction to solve crimes.
1.2
Dr Watson
Sherlock Holmes' sidekick and assistant, he accompanies Sherlock on his cases and helps him solve them.
1.3
Inspector Lestrade
Inspector Lestrade is a detective at Scotland Yard. He often consults Sherlock Holmes on his cases. Sherlock Holmes is sometimes rude about Lestrade, thinking him uneducated and dim-witted.
Context
2.1
Victorian England
The period of time between 1820 and 1914, so called because the monarch was Queen Victoria (for most of this time.) The time was defined by advances in science, but also for its strict class and gender hierarchy.
2.2
detective agencies
There were many private detective agencies all around the world in the 1800s and early 1900s. The police as we know it today did not exist to begin with, so many turned to private detective agencies to solve crimes.
2.3
Scotland Yard
The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police – this term is often used to refer to the London police force more widely who worked alongside Sherlock Holmes.
2.4
Gothic Fiction & the supernatural
A genre of fiction that explores fear, the supernatural & the past being at odds with the present. Anything that cannot be explained by Science. Ghosts, magic, witchcraft, prophecies or demons for example
2.5
Science & Religion
In Victorian England, most people were Christian. Advances in scientific discoveries in the Victorian era began to challenge what society believed about religion & the supernatural, for example, the Theory of Evolution. This suggested that humans evolved, and were not descended from Adam and Eve.
2.6
social class
In Victorian society, one of the most important factors to a person's identity was their social class – this broadly means how wealthy a person was, with working class people having little money, and the upper classes being very wealthy. In The Hound of Baskervilles, the Baskerville family are upper class and the Barrymores are working class.
2.7
gender
Gender is the contrast between men and women. In Victorian society, the second most important thing behind your social class was whether you were male or female. Women were not allowed to vote and were seen as second-class citizens. If you were working class and female, you were not seen as very important in society.
Vocabulary
4.1
erroneous
Wrong or incorrect. Sherlock Holmes came to an erroneous conclusion.
4.2
furtive
Secretive, attempting to avoid notice. With a furtive glance, the convict crept down the corridor.
4.3
deduction
Reaching a decision through thinking about the known facts. The detective solves the crime through the process of deduction.
4.4
amiable
Pleasant and friendly He was an amiable and cheerful fellow.
4.5
hard- headed
Practical and realistic, not sentimental.
A practical, hard-headed man of business.
4.6
luminous
Giving off a steady , glowing light. The moon glowed in a luminous way.
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