Gavin's guide to Shakespeare's Measure for Measure for A-Level: Study guide for all UK exam boards - Softcover

Smithers, Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798637103607

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Gavin's guides are highly rated and popular with students who want to deepen their understanding of exam set texts. Gavin holds a degree in English from Oxford University and he bases these guides on a close reading of the text and an awareness of the writer's times and culture. His experience as a private tutor over more than a decade, helping students improve their knowledge and writing style, means that buying this guide is as close as you can get to a series of one to one sessions, but at a fraction of the cost. This study guide analyses the rich ambiguities of the play and investigates the characters, their relationships and a wide range of possible critical views. The scene by scene commentary will lead you to feel confident about the key themes and ideas and why they are in the text. The detailed analysis of characterisation extends this. You will find thorough notes about the sources, the context (James 1 and the Biblical influences). A concise summary of the key strands of historical criticism of the play follows. All of this is designed to stimulate your own thinking, and encourage you to develop your own point of view. Once you are clear about that, you will have taken these different ingredients and created a dish you can flavour with your own individual twist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798637103607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 133
• Editor: Chilton Gill