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This edition of Hamlet offers a uniquely interactive approach to
one of Shakespeare's most performed plays. William Shakespeare did
not intend that his plays be read as texts only - they were meant
to be acted, seen and heard. This exciting edition of Hamlet offers
a wealth of supporting material to encourage understanding and
appreciation of this remarkable play as well as meet all the
requirements of the CAPS and preparation for the Grade 12
examination. The features of this edition include: A detailed
introduction to prepare learners for studying the key literature
features and characteristics of the play.; A short biography of
Shakespeare.; Background information about the context of the
play.; A summary of each Act.; A complete and authoritative text of
the play.; An attractive double-page spread layout, which includes
notes and activities that: Assist with pre-reading and during
reading.; Explain difficult language.; Provide useful background
information.; Explore characters, themes, words and images; and
stimulate thoughts on how to stage the play.; Pre-reading questions
before each Act.; Questions and activities at the end of each Act
to consolidate understanding and for revision.; Exam preparation,
including sample contextual and essay questions, and guidance for
answering both types of questions as well as suggested answers.; A
list of references; and A detailed glossary of terms for literature
study and drama. This edition is fully illustrated with drawings
and story-boards for each Act as well as photographs to support and
extend the understanding and enjoyment of Hamlet. This e?Book is a
digital version of the printed, CAPS-approved ?book. Benefits of
the ePUB format? include:? The ability to view on ?a ?desktop
computer, notebook or tablet.; As learners adjust fonts, rotate and
flip pages, content reflows to fit the device's screen giving the
user a more flexible experience; and Learners can take notes,
highlight and bookmark, and access video and audio for visual
learning.
X-kit Literature Guides explains the history, environment and the
story of the text in broad terms. It discusses every major
character and theme in the text in detail using pictures and
diagrams to explain concepts. X-kit Literature Guides provides
plenty of practise questions and answers and tips on how to tackle
your literature exam.
The X-Kit Achieve! Literature series offers a unique series of
visually attractive, high-quality exam preparation tools. The
series has been written by top South African educationalists. The
books cover all the knowledge and skills tested in the final
English Home Language and First Additional Language literature
exams for the FET phase. Plot, theme, character, style, symbolism
and imagery are all discussed in detail, and thoroughly taught and
tested. Study and exam preparation techniques are covered and exam
questions provided. Answers are also provided for all the questions
to allow learners to monitor their own understanding. This study
guide aims to provide you with sufficient support for doing really
well in your Grade 12 English examination. This study guide will
provide: All the background information needed for a full
understanding of Cry, the Beloved Country.; Summaries, including a
precis of the whole play, plus details of acts and scenes.;
Important quotes for use in exams.; An analysis of the play that
will help you understand the plot and develop insight and
appreciation.; Pointers about the characters for quick and easy
revision.; A summary of the key themes.; Comprehensive exam
preparation assistance, including test-yourself questions, sample
contextual questions and full answers; and A glossary explaining
literature terminology. About the author, Alan Paton: Born in
Pietermaritzburg in 1903, Alan Paton attended Pietermaritzburg
College and then studied science at the University of Natal. He
graduated in 1922 and obtained his teaching certificate in 1923. In
1925, he went to teach at a school in Ixopo attended by black
children. In 1928, he took a post at Pietermaritzburg College, a
prestigious, whites-only boys' school, where he taught for seven
years. He started writing poetry and novels, but was critical of
his novel-writing efforts and destroyed these early stories. In
1935, he became principal of Diepkloof Reformatory. Here, he
instituted a number of reforms and the reformatory succeeded in
rehabilitating juvenile criminals into society. He felt that with
greater freedom in the way the reformatory was run, the boys would
be better adapted to life outside the reformatory when released. At
the start of the Second World War, Paton wanted to join the army,
but was asked to stay on at the reformatory instead. After the war,
while travelling to study prisons and reform schools elsewhere in
the world, Paton had the idea for his novel Cry, the Beloved
Country, which he wrote most of while travelling abroad. Paton was
convinced that young urban black people drifted into crime because
of a lack of opportunities to make a living and as a result of
broken families and tribes around the country. This lack of
stability of home and culture left the young without an anchor, and
the unfair laws of the time inhibited them from finding an honest
way to make a living. In creating his characters for Cry, the
Beloved Country, Paton drew on three major schools of thought at
that time: There was a desire by white people to keep the black
people in their place.; There was an opposite desire among black
activists to demand equality more and more violently; and There was
the attitude of "brotherly love" as embodied by the Christian
churches predominant at that time. As a devout Christian, Paton
seemed to conclude in his novel that having an attitude of
brotherly love offers the only hope for the future, but this idea
was fiercely opposed. Although Paton wrote this novel in 1946, the
themes and issues he explores are still interesting and relevant
now. This eBook is in ePDF format, which enables you to: View the
entire book offline on desktop or tablet.; Search for and highlight
text; and Add and edit personal notes directly in your eBook.
X-kit Literature Guides explains the history, environment and the
story of the text in broad terms. It discusses every major
character and theme in the text in detail using pictures and
diagrams to explain concepts. X-kit Literature Guides provides
plenty of practise questions and answers and tips on how to tackle
your literature exam.
X-kit Achieve! Literature Study Guides make nationally prescribed novels and dramas accessible to learners to help them prepare for exams. They provide insight into the author and context of the writing, analysis of critical themes, plots and characters and plenty of exercises for exam preparation.
The X-Kit Achieve! Literature series offers a unique series of
visually attractive, high-quality exam preparation tools. The
series has been written by top South African educationalists. The
books cover all the knowledge and skills tested in the final
English Home Language and First Additional Language literature
exams for the FET phase. Plot, theme, character, style, symbolism
and imagery are all discussed in detail, and thoroughly taught and
tested. Study and exam preparation techniques are covered and exam
questions provided. Answers are also provided for all the questions
to allow learners to monitor their own understanding. This study
guide aims to provide you with sufficient support for doing really
well in your Grade 12 English examination. This study guide will
provide: All the background information needed for a full
understanding of Cry, the Beloved Country.; Summaries, including a
precis of the whole play, plus details of acts and scenes.;
Important quotes for use in exams.; An analysis of the play that
will help you understand the plot and develop insight and
appreciation.; Pointers about the characters for quick and easy
revision.; A summary of the key themes.; Comprehensive exam
preparation assistance, including test-yourself questions, sample
contextual questions and full answers; and A glossary explaining
literature terminology. About the author, Alan Paton: Born in
Pietermaritzburg in 1903, Alan Paton attended Pietermaritzburg
College and then studied science at the University of Natal. He
graduated in 1922 and obtained his teaching certificate in 1923. In
1925, he went to teach at a school in Ixopo attended by black
children. In 1928, he took a post at Pietermaritzburg College, a
prestigious, whites-only boys' school, where he taught for seven
years. He started writing poetry and novels, but was critical of
his novel-writing efforts and destroyed these early stories. In
1935, he became principal of Diepkloof Reformatory. Here, he
instituted a number of reforms and the reformatory succeeded in
rehabilitating juvenile criminals into society. He felt that with
greater freedom in the way the reformatory was run, the boys would
be better adapted to life outside the reformatory when released. At
the start of the Second World War, Paton wanted to join the army,
but was asked to stay on at the reformatory instead. After the war,
while travelling to study prisons and reform schools elsewhere in
the world, Paton had the idea for his novel Cry, the Beloved
Country, which he wrote most of while travelling abroad. Paton was
convinced that young urban black people drifted into crime because
of a lack of opportunities to make a living and as a result of
broken families and tribes around the country. This lack of
stability of home and culture left the young without an anchor, and
the unfair laws of the time inhibited them from finding an honest
way to make a living. In creating his characters for Cry, the
Beloved Country, Paton drew on three major schools of thought at
that time: There was a desire by white people to keep the black
people in their place.; There was an opposite desire among black
activists to demand equality more and more violently; and There was
the attitude of "brotherly love" as embodied by the Christian
churches predominant at that time. As a devout Christian, Paton
seemed to conclude in his novel that having an attitude of
brotherly love offers the only hope for the future, but this idea
was fiercely opposed. Although Paton wrote this novel in 1946, the
themes and issues he explores are still interesting and relevant
now. This eBook is in ePDF format, which enables you to: View the
entire book offline on desktop or tablet.; Search for and highlight
text; and Add and edit personal notes directly in your eBook.
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The Tempest (Staple bound)
W Shakespeare; Edited by W. Saunders
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R320
R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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This series provide a setwork and study guide in one. Easy to use
and clearly structured, the Spot On Literature series provides
useful information about the novel and author, including
quotations, contextual and historical information. It provides
guidance on how to write an essay and answer contextual questions,
while mock examination questions and answers aid in Grade 12
Literature exam preparation.
This teaching edition of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"
responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches
to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural
studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary
documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly
textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's
work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period
documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife
and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works
offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents
on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the
play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic
disorder and violence. Editorial features designed to help students
read the play in light of the historical documents include an
intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to
each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses
for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an
extensive bibliography.
These 19 characters can be played with a minimum of 9 actors
doubling, if preferred. A riotous reworking of Shakespeare's
Hamlet. Featuring Ophelia, her maid, St Joan and a couple of locals
-- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. (7 male, 12 female).
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Hamlet (Paperback)
MR W Shakespeare Shakespeare
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R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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S H A K E S P E A R E -- PREFACE The text of this edition of Julius
Casar is based upon a collation of the seventeenth century Folios,
the Globe edition, and that of Delius. As compared with the text of
the earlier editions of Hudsons Shakespeare, it is conservative.
Exclusive of changes in spelling, punctuation, and stage
directions, very few emendations by eighteenth century and
nineteenth century editors have been adopted and these, with every
variation from the First Folio, are indicated in the textual notes.
These notes are printed immediately below the text so that a reader
or student may see at a glance the evidence in the case of a
disputed reading and have some definite understanding of the
reasons for those differences in the text of Shakespeare which
frequently surprise and very often annoy. A consideration of the
more poetical, or the more dramatically effective, of two variant
readings will often lead to rich results in awakening a spirit of
discriminating interpretation and in developing true creative
criticism. In no sense is this a textual variorum edition. The
variants given are only those of importance and high authority. The
spelling and the punctuation of the text are modern, except in the
case of verb terminations in - ed, which, when the e is silent, are
printed with the apostrophe in its place. This is the general usage
in the First ... Folio. Modern spelling has to a certain extent
been followed in the text variants but the original spelling has
been retained wherever its peculiarities have been the basis for
important textual criticism and emendation. With the exception of
the position of the textual variants, the plan of this edition is
similar to that of theold Hudson Shakespeare. It is impossible to
specify the various instances of revision and rearrangement in the
matter of the Introduction and the interpretative notes, but the
endeavour has been to retain all that gave the old edition its
unique place and to add the results of what seems vital and
permanent in later inquiry and research. While it is important that
the principle of suum cuique be attended to so far as is possible
in matters of research and scholarship, it is becoming more and
more difficult to give every man his own Shakespearian annotation.
The amount of material accumulated is so great that the
identity-origin of much important comment and suggestion is either
wholly lost or so crushed out of shape as to be beyond recognition.
Instructive significance perhaps attaches to this in editing the
works of one who quietly made so much of materials gathered by
others. But the list of authorities given on page lv will indicate
the chief source of much that has gone to enrich the value of this
edition. Professor W. P. Trent, of Columbia University, has offered
valuable suggestions and given important advice and to Mr. M. Grant
Daniells patience, accuracy, and judgment this volume owes both its
freedom from many a blunder and its possession of a carefully
arranged index. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. S 0 c - - - - - - . - -
THEMAINSTOR - Y - - - - - NORTHS P LUTARCH - - - - - APPIANS R OMAN
WARS - - - - EARLIERP LAYS - - - - - - THE S CENE O F THE
ASSASSINATIO - N - - E T T U, B R U T E - - - - - - BRUTUSS
PEECH1,1 1, ii - - - - - 11. DATE O F COMPOSITIO - N - - - - -
EXTERNALEVIDENCE - - - - - - INTERNALEVIDENCE - - - - - - 111.
EARLY EDITIONS - - - - - - - FOLIOS - - - - - - THE QUARTO OF 1691
- - - - - RO ESEDITION - S - - - - - IV. THETITLE - - - - - - - -
V. DRAMATICCO NSTRUCTI A O N N D DEVELOPMEN - T - ANALYSI B S Y ACT
AND SCENE - - - VI...
This book opens up "Twelfth Night" as a play to see and hear,
provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the
critical and theatrical reception over four centuries. A detailed
performance commentary brings to life the many moods of
Shakespeare's subtle but robust humor. Students are encouraged to
imagine the theatrical challenges of Shakespeare's Illyria afresh
for themselves, as well as the thought, creative responses and
wonder it has provoked.
Based on A Midsummer Nights Dream, with the mechanicals as a female
theatre troupe and Oberon falling for a hard line feminist Easter
bunny. (5 male, 12 female).
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