Othello

A Study Commentary

…If you are preparing for AP the Commentary's line-by-line analysis will give you a very complete insight into the play's fine detail, and help you develop the skills of close textual comment. It will also encourage you to...

Macbeth

A Study Commentary

…If you are a GCE A Level student the Commentary will improve your understanding of the play’s subtleties, and will help you with your course work and with commentary and essay questions in the final…

Hamlet

A Study Commentary

…If you are a teacher the Commentary will help you prepare the play for the classroom. Among other things it will suggest answers to some of the challenging questions your students are likely to ask; and it will be an invaluable resource for…

King Lear

A Study Commentary

...If you are an undergraduate student or a general reader you will find that the Commentary, scholarly in its focus yet informal in its tone, looks at the play in a refreshingly different way and comes to some new conclusions about it...

Writing Unseen Commentaries

A Student Help Book

If you are an IB student following the A1 English course the Help Book will be invaluable as you prepare for the Unseen Commentary part of the final written exam. It makes use of many passages from past IB exams...

Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

A Workbook Edition

This downloadable edition of the General Prologue has been designed to provide an alternative to the poem as a standard printed and bound...

Jane Austen's Persuasion

A Workbook Edition

…The margin notes are very detailed, encourage perceptive dialogue about the text, and make many suggestions for independent student work. Essay topics in the style of AP, IB Language A1 and...

The WordSmith Prompts

…The Prompts are study tasks designed to take students into the heart of each chapter of a novel (or each scene of a play, or each poem in an anthology) as they have finished reading it…