A Taste of Honey GCSE Student Guide: GCSE Student Guides
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Overview
Written specifically for GCSE students by academics and specialists in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence.
Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. They take studying drama even further with sections on dramatic technique, critical reception, related works, fascinating behind-the-scenes interviews with playwrights, directors or actors, and a helpful glossary of dramatic terms.
Shelagh Delaney’s modern classic A Taste of Honey is a comic and poignant exploration of class, feminism, race, sexual orientation and optimism in post-war Britain. Fifty years after its hit premiere, working-class Lancashire lass Jo’s story continues to engage new generations of audiences.
Closely following the requirements of GCSE English Literature assessment objectives, these studies include expert advice on how to write about modern drama. With featured activities for group study and independent work, they are versatile and valuable to students and teachers alike.
A GCSE Student Guide to Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 play, A Taste of Honey, first seen in London when produced by Theatre Workshop. This guide unpacks the play’s context, themes, style, structure and language; considers the impact it had at the time; and explores the play’s legacy all in a format that is ideal for the student reader.
A Taste of Honey is a set text for the AQA and WJEC exam boards for GCSE English
Ideally tailored to GCSE students who are approaching the play for the first time, methodically and rigorously exploring the play’s key themes, language, meaning, characters, scenes, context and legacy
This Methuen Drama GCSE Student Guide considers the play in performance as well as treating it as a literary text, looking at how it has been staged, performed, filmed and reviewed
Ideal for classroom use, with activities and suggestions for teachers to try with their students
Stimulates active engagement by offering alternative interpretations, rather than closed or definitive ways of interpreting the play, and by providing a range of questions and suggested activities to lead the reader further into the text
A fully up-to-date guide that incorporates recent research and scholarship with considerations of seminal and contemporary productions of A Taste of Honey
A popular choice of text for students at this level, A Taste of Honey is an ideal study text in the issues it raises, as well as its inherent theatricality
- Title: A Taste of Honey GCSE Student Guide
- Author: Kate Whittaker
- Series: GCSE Student Guides
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781474229739, 9781474229715, 1474229719, 1474229735
- Resource ID: LLS:9781474229739
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:48:01Z
Kate Whittaker is a former English and Drama teacher who has worked in a variety of UK secondary schools. She is now Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, specialising in post-war British and North American theatre.