If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will examine and analyze the play's primary characters, particularly through the lens of their many changing personae throughout.
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Students will explore themes of deception, illusion, greed, and the gullibility of human nature.
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Students will place the play within a larger historical and cultural context of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
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Students will delve into the theatrical and meta-theatrical aspects of the play.
