Overview
Each book in the Study & Revise series is designed as a year-round course companion to instill in-depth textual understanding. By the end of each book, students will have developed their understanding of plot, characterization, themes and language.
Written by experienced teachers and examiners, the books contain targeted advice on planning and structuring a successful essay, detailed commentary and contextual information, and thought-provoking questions that encourage students to form their own responses for building critical and analytical skills.
Using this guide
Introduction
1. Synopsis
2. Act summaries and commentaries
3. Themes
4. Characters
5. Writer's methods: Form, structure and language
6. Contexts
7. Working with the text
Assessment Objectives and skills
Building skills 1: Structuring your writing
Building skills 2: Analysing texts in detail
Extended commentaries
Top ten quotations
Taking it further
Shaun McCarthy is a professional playwright for stage and radio. His recent plays have been produced by Bristol Old Vic, Ustinov Studio Bath Theatre Royal and the Katie Read Company, and by BBC Radio 4. He teaches writing for performance at Oxford and Bristol universities. He has written many education titles, including study guides to Shakespeare and modern dramatists, creative writing programmes and literary biographies.