This market-leading textbook is as comprehensive as it has always been, and as the favourite choice of students is totally revised for use with the new A/AS Level requirements from September 2000. Common areas across all specifications have been identified making this an ideal core text for any student, suitable for use with all major AQA, WJEC and EDEXCEL specifications. Students and tutors can see exactly how the book supports their course, as well as being provided with helpful ideas as to other areas they can read up on, making this a truly universal text. Larger and more authoritative text, having been expanded to allow coverage of new dramatic texts and new practioners, as well as providing extra information throughout. It offers familiarity for tutors who rely on the present edition. New text offers the same high level of support and detail and the structure and approach parallels the successful and popular first edition.