GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide - Macbeth includes Online Edition & Quizzes: perfect for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP GCSE English Text Guides)

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Macbeth is one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and one of most studied plays by GCSE English students. What are these so wither’d and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth, and yet are on’t? York Notes’ Macbeth GCSE Study Notes and Revision Guide provides all the information you need to craft exam answers that will earn high marks, and will help you to gain a thorough understanding of key elements in William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, including the play’s plot, major characters, historical context and underlying themes.

To make sure everything has sunk in, we’ve thrown in a heap of quick warm-up activities, in-depth exercises and realistic exam-style questions at the end of sections, alongside challenging questions for students aiming for Grades 8-9. All of which is age-appropriate, hand-illustrated and vetted by our team of English teachers and examiners.

You are responsible for ensuring that your computer networks run appropriate protection against viruses or other malware. The play’s adaptability across different mediums and cultures attests to its appeal and the universality of its themes. each new morn new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face, that it resounds as if it felt with Scotland and yell’d out like syllable of dolour. Shakespeare does present Malcolm’s intelligence and maturity later in the play when he tests Macduff. This handsome Text Guide is a smashing GCSE-level companion to Macbeth - and it's perfect for all major GCSE English exam boards.

Each theme throughout our Macbeth revision guide pdf contains a selection of corresponding Macbeth quotes to help students support their analysis with textual evidence. Use this guide alongside our Macbeth Themes GCSE revision guide to ensure you’re ready to ace your exams. It contains succinct summaries of the key elements of the play, plus in-depth notes on the characters, themes, language, historical background and more, with photographs from film and stage productions to help set the scene. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child.

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Not only is this book packed with essay advice and engaging activities, it’ll also gives you access to our online Sudden Fail quizzes -ideal for putting your skills to the test! What’s more, there's a free Online Edition with even more activities for specific exam boards — ideal if you’re on the move!So if you’ve got “vaulting ambition” to do well in your exams then let your marks “o’erleap” themselves with our help and read on. By using the CGP Online Edition and its Online Extras you agree to be bound by the full Terms and Conditions. Use CGP Online Editions for your own personal use, including things like studying, classroom teaching, lesson planning and in-school training.

and use a good summary of the plot – from somewhere like BBC Bitesize or the Royal Shakespeare Company – to make your own plot summary that you an refer back to. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. Your exam question could be focused on how Shakespeare presents aspects of one of the characters, so you need to be clear on the key traits of the main characters and the important quotes which back these up. Note that you can also use Macbeth and Banquo’s quotes for the witches (shown in their sections of this guide).With plenty of information on Macbeth, including characters, themes, key quotations and top exam advice, this revision guide is expertly designed to help you on your way to exam success! We are going to work through it slowly and we are going to do lots of questions (GCSE/IGCSE type question) and work on writing longer answers and how to structure the answers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Learn the key quotations from our characters and themes revision guides (you can find them on our resources page and linked above). Make sure you learn about how the characters are presented in Macbeth, as well as some key quotations for each character.