How to get a 9 in Shakespeare

This guide provides practical strategies to help students access top grades in GCSE English Literature, particularly when studying Shakespearean language and content. It offers guidance on analyzing extracts, picking out important quotes, and linking them to the play as a whole, with a focus on achieving full marks. Broken down into the two most frequently studied Shakespearean plays, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, it provides the text needed to become an expert in Shakespeare.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2022
Publisher: John Catt Educational Ltd

Are you confident with poetry, an expert in Dickens, at ease with modern drama, but a bit more unsure when it comes to Shakespeare? Then this is the guide for you. Lots of students find Shakespearean language
language and content the hardest element of the GCSE English Literature course; this book gives you practical strategies you can use to make sure you can access those very top grades. Are you giving the examiner your own personal opinion on the extract? Have you picked out the most important quotes, and broken them down? Does it link to the play as a whole? This guide gives you a range of ways to make sure you're doing all this and more, and that you achieve as close to full marks as possible, every time. Broken down into the two most frequently studied Shakespearean plays at GCSE (Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet), you can find the text that you need and become an expert in all things Shakespeare. No more woolly points, no more skirting away from analyzing pentameter, no more generic 'Shakesperean audiences hated… It's time to focus on the 9s.

Are you confident with poetry, an expert in Dickens, at ease with modern drama, but a bit more unsure when it comes to Shakespeare? Then this is the guide for you. Lots of students find Shakespearean language and content the hardest element of the GCSE English Literature course; this book gives you practical strategies you can use to make sure you can access those very top grades. Are you giving the examiner your own personal opinion on the extract? Have you picked out the most important quotes, and broken them down? Does it link to the play as a whole? This guide gives you a range of ways to make sure you're doing all this and more, and that you achieve as close to full marks as possible, every time. Broken down into the two most frequently studied Shakespearean plays at GCSE (Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet), you can find the text that you need and become an expert in all things Shakespeare. No more woolly points, no more skirting away from analyzing pentameter, no more generic 'Shakesperean audiences hated… It's time to focus on the 9s.

Weight: 178g
Dimension: 147 x 209 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915261281