Thanks for that link looks like a really great resource! Yeah I definitely agree with you in terms of there being more resources for Shakespeare - one I found really good was this:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/ which has The Tempest and other lagely studied Shakespeare texts translater in modern English. Whilst I feel like I've gained a better understanding of Shakespeare over the years, there are still lines that go over my head so this is definitely really useful to look at. If you look at the 'No Fear literature titles' as well I think they also have all of The Canterbury Tales so that might help you in terms of the Wife of Bath as well. I really wish they had something like this for Volpone
Hey! Yeah Paradise Lost is definitely very complex and hard to get my head around, luckily Book 9 in itself is quite short so which makes it more manageable. I'd hate if it a question on humour came up for The Tempest, I wouldn't know what to write
And yeah I do exactly the same as you with the sticking up quotes around my room, my room is absolutely full of quotes from all three texts
It looks silly but I think it will be really useful and I can imagine that by the time of the exam I would have seen them all so much that I'll be able to remember them all off the top of my head!
I'm doing Volpone and Paradise Lost for comparison as well! Any predictions on what will come up? I'm hoping something on Women comes up, and I think it's likely considering the other texts in the syllabus as well. I know something about women and their use of wit came up last year but that wouldn't have really been relevant to Volpone or Paradise Lost, I'd love something about women's roles as passive figures as I reckon I could challenge that well
I think a question about Evil/Immorality and a question about persuasion would be good for the two texts as well, hopefully something similar to one of those three comes up! Looking at the questions that came up last year, I wouldn't have really been happy answering any of them for Volpone and Paradise Lost so that worries me slightly
And as I said above, in terms of techniques for learning quotes I think posting stick it notes of them all around your room (or house) is really useful as you'll just be able to look at them at random points of the day and will eventually learn them by the time of the exam. It doesn't work for everyone and it's definitely a bit of a hassle (especially as the sticky notes I bought don't stick up so I have to use sellotape
) but hopefully it should be worth it!
Hey! I'm doing The Tempest as well
Yeah I can definitely see Prospero coming up. My dream questions though would be Ariel for the character question (or Caliban but there's 0% of that) and Colonialism for the theme question. I would literally be so happy if they came up
Wow that must be pretty tough with the retakes, although I imagine you should ace the AS stuff now as it will seem easy in comparison to A2? I did Yeats and Frankenstein last year and I miss them so much now considering what we have to learn for A2, I really did not appreciate them enough at the time