Book Series: Study and Revise for AS/A-level

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Tempest

By Steve Eddy

Tillyard disagrees with Shakespeare scholar Dover Wilson (1881–1969), who thinks that Prospero intends revenge up to the point when he reassures Ariel that all he wants is for the sinners to be 'penitent' (V.1.28).

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: A Room with a View

By Susan Elkin, Nicola Onyett

Sixty years earlier the attitude of Blanch Ingram and Mr Rochester's other guests suggest that Jane Eyre doesn't know her place either. She is always polite – Mr Rochester is her employer – but the first person narrative gives us a ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: King Lear

By Martin Old

Shakespeare's principal comedian had been Will Kemp, who specialised in low humour and physical comedy. Praised as the finest clown of his generation, Kemp specialised in rural simpletons and was the kind of adlibbing performer prone to ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Wuthering Heights

By Andrew Green

... Clara Reeve) • Ghost story (Henry James, M.R. James, Susan Hill) • Horror (Edgar Allan Poe, James Herbert, Stephen King) • Fantasy (J.R.R. Tolkien, Mervyn Peake) • Mystery/adventure (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Rider Haggard, ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: A Streetcar Named Desire

By Nicola Onyett

This Study and Revise guide: - Increases students' knowledge of A Streetcar Named Desire as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners - Develops understanding of ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Seamus Heaney

By Luke McBratney

Contexts. Target. your. thinking. • How does contextual material help you to deepen your understanding of the poems? ... context. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939, the eldest of nine children. He grew up on his father's farm in County ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

By Richard Swan

(AO1) • How does Chaucer use iambic pentameter and rhyme in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale? (AO2) • How does Chaucer's use of humour create different possibilities for interpretation of the text? (AO5) ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Skirrid Hill

By Luke McBratney

(2009) A Poet's Guide to Britain, Penguin. The introduction to this anthology of verse provides valuable insights into Sheers' thoughts and feelings about landscape and its impact on poets. —— (2009) A Poet's Guide to Britain, ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Top Girls

By Shaun McCarthy, Luke McBratney

(Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's greatest plays is entirely built around the eponymous character's protracted indecision about whether to kill his father's murderer.) Top Girls is unusual in that it has a structure that allows several ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Handmaid's Tale

By Nicola Onyett

When she tells her fellow Handmaid that she has no faith in the Wives' prayers, she is calling into question the ... Job is a righteous man whose faith God allows the Devil to test; despite the Devil's best efforts, the faithful Job ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Taming of the Shrew

By Nicola Onyett, Martin Old, Luke McBratney

This Study and Revise guide: - Increases students' knowledge of The Taming of the Shrew as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners - Develops understanding of ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Atonement

By David James

... Alevel Alevel OCR English Literature A Literature post1900 (Nonexamined assessment component); suggested text for texts grouped under the theme of 'Time' Level Edexcel English Literature A A level Component 2: Prose. Written examination ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Othello

By Pete Bunten

... Alevel English Literature specification. To what extent does Shakespeare's Othello offer a sense of redemption at the end of the play? Relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors and critical readings. Othello undergoes a ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Measure for Measure

By Anne Crow

... Alevel paper is three hours; there are three questions, each marked out of 25. The question on this text involves discussing a statement with close analysis of a set passage as well as in the light of the whole play. For OCR, AS Level ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Winter's Tale

By Martin Old

... Alevel question of the sort that may be asked on AQA Specification A (both for AS and Alevel). This takes an extractbased approach, where you respond to the extract and to the play as a whole. 'Texts often present the sexual and ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Duchess of Malfi

By Peter Morrisson

... Alevel question does not launch you into debate, you should still attempt to think around the main issue or theme in ... exam questions never offer a view that makes no sense at all, or one so blindingly obvious that all anyone can do is ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Great Gatsby

By Anne Crow

... Alevel paper 1a, the paper is two hours thirty minutes; there are three questions, each marked out of 25. The Great Gatsby must be paired with Shakespeare's Richard II. The specification gives useful advice and lists possible aspects of ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: AQA Anthology

By Luke McBratney

... study of your chosen section of the Anthology, be flexible enough to consider themes in different ways. Your secondary reading, for example, may lead you to consider a new theme or a theme in a new way. If you are studying Alevel, your ...

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Mark Asquith, Luke McBratney

... Alevel English Literature course. It will help you when you are studying the novel for the first time and also during your revision. The following features have been used throughout this guide to help you focus your understanding of the ...