An Inspector Calls

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Dd is studying this for GCSE. Which edition should I buy her? Not for passnotes, etc, but there are editions which include other plays, or an intro by someone scholarly, or just a straight script. Also, reviews on Amazon suggest that some lines in some editions are different to other editions - how do I know which is the correct version?

(I have asked dd to get this info from her teacher, or just take a pic of the ISBN on the school's copy, but she's in prickly teen melodrama mode ATM.)

I always teach from the Heinneman version - but not saying all schools use that one, just that it would be the most likely.

Double check it’s not on English dept’s page on school’s website - I spent ages nagging DS to confirm boards/texts/ editions before I realised all the info had been on the website all along AND (great shame to me) on the piece of paper handed to us at the Year 10 Parents’ Evening, carefully folded, put away in a file and never looked at again..,

get up the page on Amazon, sit DD in front of it and ask her which one it looks like. talking from experience

Just get her the straight script. And English exams are closed book now, so it doesn't matter if lines differ slightly across editions.

I studied An Inspector Calls for my GCSE in 1990. Not that that's helpful to you in any way, I'm just surprised it's still on the list .

AQA website seems to be recommending the Cambridge University Press edition, if that helps?

And English exams are closed book now, so it doesn't matter if lines differ slightly across editions.

Not in the exam but it does matter for teaching. Check with the school if you possibly can - it is a PITA for the kid with a different edition when everyone else is working from page references in class, or we as teachers set homework on specific pages.

I'd email her English teacher to ask which edition they recommend. My children's school sends an email out with the ISBN number of the edition they'll be using in class.

Heinemann.

Screamingvalenta I studied it for O'Levels in 1976! There's a good dramatisation available on Apple TV and probably available elsewhere. DD and I are going to see it in the theatre in October. I'll be suffering as I think it's so clichéd

DS starting GCSE next week

AQA board for English Lit and we have used Heinemann.

Likewise for my other DS the year before.

@Davros Clearly a case of the exam board deciding 'this one will run and run' .

And Animal Farm

Alas we didn't have Animal Farm (which I'd read dozens of times). Of Mice and Men and Othello were the other texts I recall.

I asked dd to pick the one that school uses off Amazon.

Of Mice and Men is out of the GCSE set text list (so at my children's school they study it in Y9 instead).

Three of mine have done Animal Farm (which I also studied at school) and two have done Lord of the Flies (ditto).

None of them have read An Inspector Calls.

Just checked DS copy and he is using the Heinemann edition.