This book is designed to assist upper secondary school and first and second-year university students in their reading and understanding of Shakespeare's plays. The plays selected for discussion are those that students are most likely to encounter in their early adventures with Shakespeare. Each discussion provides guidance on issues raised by each play and suggests approaches from which students can build original ideas and insights.
The book contains exercises that are designed to assist students to understand and remember the characters, plots and structures of Shakespeare's plays, as well as free full text copies of the plays.
Volume 2 includes Twelfth Night, Macbeth and King Lear.
Shakespeare's Major Plays Volume 1 precedes Volume 2, and contains full free text copies and analysis of As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
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