Blood Brothers — Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide Willy Russell | CN-SG025 | 76 Pages
Two boys. One secret. A lifetime of consequences.
A comprehensive, exam-focused guide to Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, created primarily for GCSE and A Level students.
Follow Mickey and Edward from their separation at birth through childhood friendship, adolescence and their radically different adult lives to the play’s tragic conclusion.
This guide explores not only what happens, but how Russell turns the twins’ story into a powerful examination of class, inequality, education, unemployment, family, friendship, superstition, fate and responsibility.
INCLUDED
✓ Complete plot summary
✓ Detailed chronological scene analysis
✓ Mickey and Edward
✓ Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons
✓ Linda, Sammy and the Narrator
✓ Character development
✓ Class and social inequality
✓ Nature versus nurture
✓ Fate and superstition
✓ Family and motherhood
✓ Friendship and brotherhood
✓ Education and opportunity
✓ Work and unemployment
✓ Money and poverty
✓ Violence and crime
✓ Major symbols and motifs
✓ The Narrator and foreshadowing
✓ Dramatic irony
✓ Songs and musical structure
✓ Language and dialect
✓ Staging and theatrical methods
✓ Liverpool and social context
✓ 1980s Britain and inequality
✓ Alternative interpretations
✓ Key quotations explained
✓ Top 10 revision quotations
✓ Key scenes and turning points
✓ GCSE and A Level examination guidance
✓ Five detailed essay plans
✓ Five sample examination answers
✓ Practice examination questions
✓ 25 Exam & Revision Questions
✓ Quick Revision Checklist
✓ Quick Recall
✓ Advanced GCSE / A Level Exam Toolkit
The guide is designed to help students move from knowing the story to analysing Russell’s dramatic choices and social message, with particular attention to the contrasting lives of Mickey and Edward and the question at the heart of the play: what is ultimately responsible for the tragedy?
CLASSIC LITERATURE COLLECTION 2 — £39.95
Also available in the six-guide Coleman’s Notes® Classic Literature Collection 2:
The War of the Worlds • Pride and Prejudice • The Sign of Four • Blood Brothers • A Taste of Honey • Never Let Me Go
Individual Blood Brothers Guide — £6.95
UNDERSTAND • ANALYSE • REVISE • SUCCEED
