The Merchant of Venice
GCSE 9-1 set text student edition
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- 2,99 €
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- 2,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas
Level & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature
First teaching: September 2015; First examination: June 2017
Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level & Subject: International AS & A Level Literature in English
First teaching: September 2019; First examination: June 2022/23
This edition of The Merchant of Venice is perfect for GCSE-level and A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.
Affordable high quality complete play for The Merchant of Venice, ideal for GCSE 9-1 and Cambridge A LevelDemystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentarySet the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretationsRecall plot summaries at the beginning of each sceneSupport GCSE and A level revision and essay writing with theme and character indexesHelp students with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare’s life and times
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About the author
Chris Green is Director of English and Drama at The Perse School in Cambridge. He is also Principal Examiner for the Shakespeare component of the English Literature A-Level examination for a UK Awarding Body, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. Chris directs the English language and literature teaching for the annual Cambridge Programmes summer schools held at Churchill College. He is the English specialist on the assessment board of the Chartered College of Teaching. This edition of The Merchant of Venice is his fourth book and follows on from an IGCSE textbook produced for HarperCollins.
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Fans of the play will find this an intriguing adaptation. Hinds sets his version in modern dress and dramatically edits the text to the basics while keeping the Shakespearean flavor of the dialogue (increasingly as the book goes on). The coloring in shades of slate blue and pale gray gives it an antique patina that's counterbalanced by the way Hinds leaves construction lines visible. That makes it feel like reading someone's unpolished sketchbook, as though the characters were observed, not created. It's always a benefit to see Shakespeare acted out, to make the universal situations clear to the modern viewer, and that benefit extends to the graphic medium, especially when the characters have a sense of motion, as here. Some aspects of the original are still discomforting; Hinds is faithful to the play in its treatment of the bloodthirsty, money-hungry Shylock, and some readers may be put off by the inclusion of lines such as \x93you may be pleased to collect whatever usurious interest pleases your Jew heart.\x94 An author's note encourages further research on that matter and clarifies some of Hinds's creative decisions.
