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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Both my daughters will use these and I will be topping up with additional GCSE books… very clear and so helpful… am considering trying to take my GCSE’s again….

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.

This book can also be bought as a standalone Online Edition — we'll send you a code to redeem immediately. 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.

He quickly becomes the more powerful Thane of Cawdor and then murders his way to become and remain King of Scotland. Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title and Online Extras for three years from the date of activation of the code. His wife, Lady Macbeth, whose own power-hungry greed reaches even deeper than her husband’s, incites his ambition, and helps him carry out the task. By using the CGP Online Edition or accessing an Online Edition title you agree to be bound by the full Terms and Conditions. Having committed murder he finds himself caught in a spiral of evil from which he can see no escape.The Service provides online access to a range of titles published by Coordination Group Publications Ltd. The parties do not intend that any provisions of this Agreement shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person not a party to it. He hath honoured me of late, and I have bought /Golden opinions from all sorts of people, /Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, /Not cast aside so soon. Titular-character Macbeth decides to murder the beloved King Duncan when three witches prophesize that he will one day take the throne. We exclude and expressly disclaim all express and implied warranties or conditions not stated in this Agreement (including without limitation, loss of income, loss or corruption of data, business interruption or loss of contracts), so far as such exclusion or disclaimer is permitted under the applicable law.

That is why Macbeth's decision to murder Duncan seemed so horrific to an audience of the time and why the murderer has such a guilty conscience. fatal vision' / 'false creation' - is the dagger something conjured up by evil spirits or Macbeth's own conscience?Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title for three years from the date of activation of the code. Owl Eyes is an improved reading and annotating experience for classrooms, book clubs, and literature lovers. The killing of a king (known as regicide) was therefore considered to be just about the worst crime that anyone could commit.