GCSE English Literature

Shakespeare
revision.

How to revise Shakespeare, then play-by-play guides for the tragedies, comedies and histories most often set at GCSE.

Shakespeare guides

Pick the text.
Build the argument.

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How to revise Shakespeare

A GCSE method for Shakespeare: track a theme, keep short quotations, and write about methods instead of translating the play into modern English.

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Macbeth revision

GCSE Macbeth revision covering ambition, guilt, kingship, the supernatural and Shakespeare’s methods, with flexible quotations for essay planning.

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Macbeth characters

Revise Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff and the witches as a system of foils, not a cast list to memorise.

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Macbeth themes

Ambition, guilt, kingship, the supernatural, appearance and reality, and gender: the ideas that hold Macbeth together.

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Romeo and Juliet revision

GCSE Romeo and Juliet revision on love, conflict, fate, time and the decisions that turn private emotion into public tragedy.

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The Merchant of Venice revision

Revise mercy, justice, prejudice, wealth and appearance in The Merchant of Venice, including the trial scene and Portia’s test of the caskets.

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Much Ado About Nothing revision

Revise love, honour, deception and wit in Much Ado About Nothing, from Beatrice and Benedick’s sparring to Hero’s public shaming.

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The Tempest revision

GCSE The Tempest revision on power, colonisation, forgiveness, magic and the theatre of control on Prospero’s island.

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Julius Caesar revision

Revise rhetoric, honour, power and the mob in Julius Caesar, from the assassination to the funeral speeches that rewrite it.

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Twelfth Night revision

Revise disguise, desire, melancholy and festivity in Twelfth Night, from Viola’s shipwreck to Malvolio’s humiliation.

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