Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal teenager swept into an amazing quest & catapulted into the middle of an immense interdimensional conflict. His success or failure will decide the course of human existence! The first book of this internationally best-selling series each featuring a new & dangerous mission. ...

Take Note for Exam Success! York Notes offer an exciting approach to English literature. This market leading series fully reflects student needs. They are packed with summaries commentaries exam advice margin & textual features to offer a wider context to the text & encourage a critical analysis. York Notes The Ultimate Literature Guides. ...

This new edition of The Merchant of Venice is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series & has been substantially updated with new & revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. As well as the complete script of The Merchant of Venice you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities an eight-page colour section & an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters performance history & language. ...

A noble but impoverished Venetian asks a friend Antonio for a loan to impress an heiress. His friend agrees but is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical Jewish moneylender Shylock & signs a chilling contract to honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. A complex & controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice & the true nature of justice. ...

In Venice the merchant Antonio borrows money so his friend can woo a beautiful lady. He agrees that if he doesnt repay Shylock the moneylender Shylock can take a pound of his flesh. When Antonios ships sink & he loses his fortune Shylock insists on the gruesome payment... With Notes on Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre & Love Hate & Mercy in The Merchant of Venice. ...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeares bittersweet comedy of courtship & ethnic tension THIS EDITION
Includes:: * An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear & authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis & key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeares career & the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of Venice in performance recommends film versions takes a detailed look at specific productions &

Includes:: interviews with two leading directors & two actors -- Darko Tresnjak David Thacker Anthony Sher & Henry Goodman
- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented & made our contemporary four centuries after his death.



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The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly in performance it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock though vanquished in the law-court often triumphs in the theatre. In his intensity he can dominate the play challenging abrasively its romantic & lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy it also exposes the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. ...

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a child goes missing & a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend archaeologist Neil Watson unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman & a new born baby in the cellar of an ancient merchants house nearby. As the investigation continues Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths centuries apart may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy a sexual obsession & desperate longing. & the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy... Kate Elliss wonderfully addictive series of West Country set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson one of Devons first black detectives. ...

The barrel should have contained books
- instead it held treasure & a severed head... Gil Cunningham & his old acquaintance Glasgow
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Midwife & healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers of Wefford yet she has no shortage of callers from the humblest villein to the most elegant & wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen & mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning there seems to be no clues as to who could be responsible. Not until a local youth runs away & a hue & cry is raised. Sir Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the King's Peace is not convinced of the youth's guilt & soon manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock bailiff of Lydford Castle to help him continue with the investigation. As they endeavour to find the true culprit the darker side of the village with its suspicion & jealousy emerges. & what is driving the young foreigner son of a nobleman to disappear down towards the moors? ...