The following book was designed to help students get the utmost of Shakespeare's work.The plots summaryof the plays summary is presented with acts and scenes helping the
student learn the names of the characters. The next section describes
the characters more fully and places them within the scenes. A
discussion of both themes and style is followed by the placement in its
historical context. The critical overview shares what critics have said
about the work; and a collection of essays provide criticism written by
Shakespeare scholars. Each entry ends with a list of sources and
suggested further reading. Inset boxes include information about media
adaptations, suggestions to "compare and contrast," and "Topics for
Further Study." Black and white illustrations, reproductions of
paintings of scenes, and some photographs of present-day actors in
scenes from the plays are also in the text. Each volume ends with the
same two-page glossary and a cumulative index to major themes and
characters. This provides some help especially for those students for
whom reading Shakespeare is a challenge because of their reading
skills. It will help them sort out characters and plot in a more
sophisticated way than a reference written for a younger audience.
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
Packed with action and vivid portrayal of human relationships, Shakespeare's Macbeth traces the bloody climb to power and tragic ruin of a fate-plagued king. Count on CliffNotes on Macbeth to carry you through the rise and fall of a cast of characters that includes a cruel and ambitious warrior, his wicked wife, and a trio of witches who have wormed their way into audiences' hearts since William Shakespeare first presented their prophecies about 300 years ago.
Show your classmates – and your grade-granting teacher – that you're in the know with English literature. You can't miss with scene summaries, plot explorations, language simplification, and insights into the author's life and times. Other features that help you study include
* A brief synopsis of the play
* A character map to help you see relationships among the characters
* Critical essays on major themes and stage productions
* An interactive quiz to test your knowledge
* Essay topics and practice projects
Star Team combines a functional language
syllabus with a communicative approach, enabling students to talk about
the things that interest them, and also to apply their language
acquisition to cultural themes and cross-curricular topics.
Star Team combines a functional language
syllabus with a communicative approach, enabling students to talk about
the things that interest them, and also to apply their language
acquisition to cultural themes and cross-curricular topics.
New Approaches to European History is an important textbook series, which provides concise but authoritative surveys of
major themes and problems in European history since the Renaissance. Written at a level and length accessible to advanced
school students and undergraduates, each book in the series addresses topics or themes that students of European history
encounter daily: the series embraces both some of the more traditional subjects of study, and those cultural and social issues
to which increasing numbers of school and college courses are devoted. A particular effort is made to consider the wider international
implications of the subject under scrutiny. To aid the student reader, scholarly apparatus and annotation is light, but each work has full supplementary bibliographies and notes for further reading: where appropriate, chronologies, maps, diagrams, and other illustrative material are also provided.
