Doctor Faustus (As/A-level Student Text Guides) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340987847 ISBN 13: 9780340987841

Publisher: Hodder Education, 2010

Synopsis

Student Text Guides are written by experienced teachers and examiners for your specific needs as students of AS/A-level English Literature, whether you are attempting a coursework assignment or revising for an examination. They are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and practical exam advice. Each guide is divided into three sections.

Use these Student Text Guides to focus your revision, strengthen your exam technique and improve your grade.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Crow has taught A-level English literature for more than 30 years, and is an experienced examiner. She also writes regularly for The English Review, also published by Phiip Allan Updates.

Review

Excellent set of notes...it does precisely what it says on the label...This volume opens with some 40 pages of background notes on Marlowe, Canterbury, his life and works, the basics of the Elizabethan theatre, a quick introduction to the Renaissance, magic, the Faust legend, and a critical history of the play's staging. All this is clearly laid out, concise, informative...The book now moves on to 13 pages of scene summaries - a useful set of notes to remind you of the overall structure and dynamic of thework, something you can and will refer to if you're studying the play in anydepth. Further pages explore the various characters, themes, imagery, andspecific aspects of the play, concluding with a glossary of literary terms and concepts... the book concludes with a couple of specimen essay questions... The real substance of these notes may well lie in the 60 or so pages which explore the structure and body of the play. There's certainly enough here, when taken in conjunction with you reading the text at least twice, to stimulate your knowledge and understanding of the work ...This book certainly helped me get to grips with the play. Amazon 4 star review I'm teaching Dr Faustus as a paired text with King Lear for the Edxecel English Literature AS course, and this book has been superb. I've used it to inform my own planning, and also advised my students to get a copy for revision. The most useful thing is that unlike some study guides, which often offer only general notes on texts, all of the information in this book is tailored to modern A-level specifications. As such, this book includes sections on areas such as audience responses over time, detailed language analysis and key passages from useful critics' responses (any English teacher knows how time-consuming it can be to find decent critical material for use in class). It's so good that I've just bought the Tess of the D'Urbervilles guide. 2/10/10 Amazon reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340987847
• ISBN 13: 9780340987841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126