A-LeVeL: MaGGie LiNdeMaNN, dESdEmOnA & tHe PrEsEnTaTiOn Of WoMeN

• MUSIC FOCUS: Maggie Lindemann!
• ACTIVITY FOCUS: Examine techniques used in Maggie Lindemann’s ‘Pretty Girl’ and then see how Shakespeare uses those very same techniques to highlight the very same issues!

Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ may have been written just a few years earlier than Maggie Lindemann‘s ‘Pretty Girl’! But if you’re a female living in the 21st Century, you’ll know that many of Desdemona’s 17th Century problems really have not gone away.

Listen to this playlist while you work!

Look at your text through a feminist lens with help from the awesome Kate Nash!