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Help with English literature Paper 1 Edexcel

For my English Literature GCSE’s(edexcel) we are doing the play ‘The Empress’ for paper 1. I really enjoy the book but there is literally NO revision content on it anywhere. No videos. No revision guides. No summaries. Absolutely nothing. If you done it for your GCSE’s or are doing it and have found stuff please give me advice, thanks.

Also I have mocks starting December 2 and my first exam is English Lit(I’m assuming paper 1) and my Shakespeare play is A Merchant of Venice. We’ve only read 3 scenes but we’ve watched the movie so I know what’s going on but I don’t know if we’re going to have read enough to do a whole paper on it cause we are supposed to answer a 20 marker on a theme or character in the whole play. We will also have some time to revise for our other books. Do you think I should buy a book and read ahead? Share you thoughts please, thanks.
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by Toomanyenny
For my English Literature GCSE’s(edexcel) we are doing the play ‘The Empress’ for paper 1. I really enjoy the book but there is literally NO revision content on it anywhere. No videos. No revision guides. No summaries. Absolutely nothing. If you done it for your GCSE’s or are doing it and have found stuff please give me advice, thanks.

Also I have mocks starting December 2 and my first exam is English Lit(I’m assuming paper 1) and my Shakespeare play is A Merchant of Venice. We’ve only read 3 scenes but we’ve watched the movie so I know what’s going on but I don’t know if we’re going to have read enough to do a whole paper on it cause we are supposed to answer a 20 marker on a theme or character in the whole play. We will also have some time to revise for our other books. Do you think I should buy a book and read ahead? Share you thoughts please, thanks.

No need to buy - can't you borrow one from the library?

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by mesub
No need to buy - can't you borrow one from the library?


Probably I didn’t think of that, thanks.

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