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As is often the case in tackling English questions, there is no right or wrong answer, the key is in choosing a few strong ideas which you can support with evidence from the text and which you can communi...

King Lear is one of those plays which Shakespeare uses to tackle a wide variety of themes, all of which can be analysed deeply individually, but also in terms of their interconnected nature. Some of the m...

There aren't really wrong answers in English Literature, as long as you are able to back up your interpretation. The questions are a guidline and are there to open up the passage for analysis.This is the ...

Ah yes, the question which haunted my years of study, particularly during GCSE and A Levels.

At this stage, many exams are ‘open book’ - that is, you can take either a blank or highlighte...

First of all, don't worry - reading texts which were written four hundred years ago was never going to be easy! Even the most acclaimed scholars had that moment where they first opened their copy of T...