A comprehensive revision guide on Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Merchant’s Tale’ with extensive information on plot, characters, themes, context, language, intention and critical reception over time as well as essay titles and sample essay. This guide is ideal for A level students to supplement their coverage of the text and to demystify what is often considered a difficult or challenging text, encouraging confidence in approaching the text and being able to write about the important aspects of language and style as well as the themes, contexts and critics’ opinions. It contains quotations from the text and from critics, handily organised by character, theme and contextual issues.

A guided booklet full of activities and guidance for students, ensuring coverage of key skills in analysing language and exploring contextual factors. By considering and studying key scenes, students will be enabled to produce an analytical essay response. In this unit students will: • Read ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare • Understand the key themes of the play • Evaluate the dramatic effectiveness of selected scenes • Analyse selected extracts from the play • Discuss how audiences may respond to the play • Complete an analytical essay on the play

A set of revision cards based on context for Of Mice and Men: context at a glance the great depression the title of the novel itinerant workers the american dream african americans women

Revision cards for 16 poems in Part 3 of the Edexcel IGCSE Anthology. Each card details perspective, content, structure, form and language devices, identifies key themes of each poem and the best poems to link them with for the comparative essay question.