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Oxford Literature Companions: Measure for Measure
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Book Description
Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure, performance and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book
also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare.
Table of Contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Plot and Structure
- Plot
- Structure
- Context
- Biography of William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatre
- The historical period
- Religion
- Love and marriage
- The underworld
- Sources
- Similarities with other Shakespeare plays
- Genre
- Shakespearean drama
- Comedy
- Problem plays
- Tragi-comedy
- Characterization and Roles
- Main characters
- Main characters
- Angelo
- Isabella
- Claudio
- Lucio
- Escalus
- Pompey
- Minor characters
- Juliet
- Mariana
- Mistress Overdone
- Provost
- Elbow
- Abhorson
- Froth
- Barnardine
- Francisca
- Friar Thomas
- Friar Peter
- Two Gentlemen
- Main characters
- Language
- Prose and verse
- Dialogue and soliloquies
- Rhetoric
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Irony and paradox
- Wordplay
- Malapropisms
- Names
- Themes
- Authority
- Justice and mercy
- Appearance and reality
- Gender, sex and marriage
- Religion
- Death
- Performance
- First performances
- 17th- to 19th-century productions
- 20th-century productions
- 21st-century productions
- Alternative productions
- Ccrriitticiacl avielw Vs iews
- Political or Marxist criticism
- Christian literary criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Structuralism
- Psychological literary criticism
- Reader response criticism
- Skills and Practice
- Understanding the question
- Planning your answer
- Writing your answer
- Sample questions
- Sample answers
- Glossary
- Back Cover
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