GCSE The Merchant of Venice Revision Workbook

GCSE The Merchant of Venice Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas and mapped to the DfE subject content and the Assessment Objectives (AO1 informed personal response with references, AO2 analysis of language, form and structure, AO3 context). Students follow the plot — Antonio the Venetian merchant borrowing from the Jewish moneylender Shylock so his friend Bassanio can woo the heiress Portia, the bond of a pound of flesh, the casket test at Belmont where Bassanio chooses lead, the loss of Antonio’s ships, and the trial where Portia, disguised as a lawyer, defeats Shylock over a single drop of blood — and get to know Antonio, Bassanio, Portia and Shylock across Venice and Belmont. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The quality of mercy is not strain’d” and “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect method to the themes of justice versus mercy, prejudice and antisemitism, love and friendship, and appearance versus reality, all in the Elizabethan context. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.