Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes & explanatory illustrations clear background information & rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition

Includes:: illustrations preliminary notes reading lists (including websites) & classroom notes.

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This new edition of The Tempest 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 Tempest 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 storm rages. Prospero & his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously all on board survive. Plotting mistaken identities bewitching love & drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits & monsters on which they have landed. They soon begin to realize all is not as it seems. ...

The ruthless reign of a secret power must be stopped... In Rome the public assassination of the Pope by a sniper on Christmas Day sets off a massive investigation that stretches across the globe. But behind the veil of Rex Deus
- the Templar cabal that silently wields power in the twenty-first century
- the plot has only just begun. The cabal has a position of ultimate control in its sights
- & its head Kate Sinclair is never going to yield her one great ambition for her US senator son Richard Pierce Sinclair. When ex-Army Ranger John Holliday uncovers the true motive behind the Pontiffs murder he must unlock the secrets of a modern Templar conspiracy
- & unravel Kate Sinclairs deadly design.



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The Templar Cross" is the second in the Paul Christopher's John Holliday series. Some secrets are too great to bear... Army Ranger Lt. Col. John ' Doc' Holliday is teaching at West Point when he receives desperate news. His niece Peggy has been kidnapped while joining an ancient tomb excavation in Egypt. Holliday immediately sets out to locate & rescue her. But Peggy's captors belong to the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis
- murderous fanatics who worship a dead god. A trail of clues sends Holliday deep into Africa & into the heart of a conspiracy involving an ancient Egyptian legend & the darkest secrets of the Order of Templar Knights. Secrets that once uncovered are a death warrant..." The Templar Cross" by Paul Christopher is the second instalment in the historical thriller series following John Holliday on his quest to uncover the secrets of the ancient Templar Order. Subsequent titles include " The Templar Conspiracy" " Lost City of the Templars" & " Valley of the Templars". Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling US novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region."
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The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth & absolute power until the Inquisition destroyed them & their riches were lost forever. But some people dont believe in forever. Ex-agent Cotton Malone used to work for Stephanie Nelle in the US Justice Department. Now Nelle wants his help to crack a series of puzzles that have confounded experts for centuries
- & could lead to the legendary lost treasure of the Knights Templar. But someone else is on the trail
- someone prepared to commit the ultimate crime to win the ultimate prize. Malone & Nelle find themselves in a heart-stopping race through the villages castles & cloisters of Europe in pursuit of a secret that in the wrong hands could bring the world to its knees.

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The Templar Legion" is the fifth John Holliday novel from Paul Christopher. The hunter becomes the hunted. Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday continues his quest to uncover the mysterious secrets of the ancient Templar Order an organization renowned for its incredible wealth & hidden power. He is swept into an adventure as deadly as it is secretive when an archaeologist friend makes a bizarre find in Ethiopia. But when he follows a trail of clues through the chaotic & lawless horn of Africa he finds himself hunted by a ruthless foe as he comes closer & closer to a priceless treasure...an ancient artefact that can only be found by those who can solve a riddle from the past. His pursuers will stop at nothing..." The Templar Legion" by Paul Christopher is the fifth instalment in the historical thriller series following John Holliday on his quest to uncover the secrets of the ancient Templar Order. Previous titles include " The Sword of the Templar" "the Templar Cross" & " The Templar Throne". Subsequent titles include " Lost City of the Templars" & " Valley of the Templars". Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling US novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region." ...

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci & the Turin Shroud Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church. These were the beginnings of a quest through time & space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies & such bodies as the Freemasons the Knights Templar & the Cathars & finally back to the ideas & beliefs of the first century AD & a devastating new view of the real character & motives of the founder of Christianity & the roles of John the Baptist & Mary Magdalene. They reveal nothing less than a secret history preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art & even in the great Gothic cathedrals whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Church. ...

Constantinople 1203. As the rapacious armies of the Fourth Crusade lay siege to the city a small band of Templars infiltrate the imperial library. They escape with three large chests filled with explosive secrets
- ones they will not live long enough to learn. Vatican City present day. In the hidden archives of the Inquisition FBI agent Sean Reilly has no choice but to violate the trust he has earned. A vicious terrorist has kidnapped Tess Chaykin & the key to her freedom lies in this underground crypt where a secret could explain the real reasons for the Templars' extermination & bring devastation to our world. A pulse-pounding manhunt takes Reilly & Tess across the world as they follow the blood-soaked trail of their enemy a devious uncompromising foe unlike any they have battled before.. .
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The Templar Throne" is the third in Paul Christopher's exciting John Holliday series. The hidden hand which rules history... Army Ranger John Holliday has made it his life's mission to unlock the secrets of the ruthless ancient Templar Order who are as renowned for their hidden wealth & power as for their desperate secrecy. In " The Templar Throne" his quest has him crisscrossing Europe & the US hunting for the True Ark
- a box reputed to hold precious holy relics & the Templars' most powerful secrets. But Holliday's hunt is also a deadly chase. On the trail of the relics are the Vatican Secret Service the CIA & an arcane brotherhood of Templar descendants who know just how much power the Ark holds. & they'll kill anyone in their way..." The Templar Throne" by Paul Christopher is the third instalment in the historical thriller series following John Holliday on his quest to uncover the secrets of the ancient Templar Order. Subsequent titles include " The Templar Conspiracy" " Lost City of the Templars" & " Valley of the Templars". Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling US novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region."
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