The Commentary's line-by-line analysis gives students insight into the play's detail, and helps them develop the skills of close textual comment. It also encourages them to think about what Shakespeare is trying to do and how he is trying to do it.
Macbeth
A Study Commentary
The Commentary is designed to enhance student understanding of the play’s subtleties and the reasons why the characters do what they do. It also assists them with their course work and helps them prepare for whatever they may face in the final exam.
Hamlet
A Study Commentary
The Commentary, scholarly in its focus yet informal in its tone, looks at the play in a refreshingly different way. It helps ‘Hamlet’ – and Hamlet – speak to a young audience in ways that Shakespeare would approve of.
King Lear
A Study Commentary
As a teacher you will find that the Commentary helps you offer imaginative lessons and explore the play with your students in ways that will fully engage them and give you great professional satisfaction.
Textual Analysis
Writing Unseen Commentaries
A Student Help Book
The resource provides students with the opportunity to explore a wide range of short pieces of literature they have encountered for the first time, and offers them a secure framework within which they can develop perceptive textual commentary.
Reading Between the Lines
A Student Help Book
This 280-page resource is designed to support senior students and their teachers working towards a final examination as part of an English course - in particular IB, AP and GCE A Level - with a Language rather than a Literature weighting.
Workbook Editions
Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
A Workbook Edition
This working edition of the General Prologue carries a new translation alongside the original text, detailed explanatory notes and a set of intriguing and penetrative study tasks. It is designed to give students a full sense of the poem’s freshness.
Jane Austen's Persuasion
A Workbook Edition
The margin notes are detailed, encourage perceptive dialogue about the text, and make many suggestions for independent student work. Essay topics in the style of Advanced Placement, IB Language A and GCE A Level are an integral part of the resource.
The WordSmith Prompts
The WordSmith Prompts
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