York Notes is the UK's favourite, market-leading range of English Literature study guides. Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help students get right to the heart of the classic Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. You'll learn all about the historical context of the piece; find detailed discussions of key passages and characters; learn interesting facts about the text; and discover structures, patterns and themes that you may never have known existed. York Notes offer an exciting and accessible key to your text, enabling you to develop your ideas and transform your studies. Romeo and Juliet will be one of two Shakespeare texts taught in all schools to all 600,000 KS3 pupils during the 2008/2009 school year.

 

This book is part of a book series called York Notes Key Stage 3 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 88 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Pearson Education Limited .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.