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Book Title: Shakespeare's Major Plays: Volume 2

Author: Cheryl Taylor

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Book Description: 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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This book is a cloned version of Shakespeare's Major Plays by Cheryl Taylor, published using Pressbooks by James Cook University under a CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) license. It may differ from the original.

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Cheryl Taylor

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Shakespeare's Major Plays: Volume 2 Copyright © 2025 by Cheryl Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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Shakespeare's Major Plays: Volume 2
Author
Cheryl Taylor
License

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Shakespeare's Major Plays: Volume 2 Copyright © 2025 by Cheryl Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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First published in 2025 by James Cook University

ISBN: 978-1-923389-07-6

Cover Design: Amber Swayn

To cite this work:

Taylor, C. (2025). Shakespeare’s major plays: Volume 2. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25120/zt9a-ahqw

Primary Subject
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Additional Subject(s)
Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy, Educational: Language, literature and literacy
Publication Date
April 23, 2025
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25120/zt9a-ahqw
Ebook ISBN
978-1-923389-07-6