English Literature

Course summary

Unit 1: Drama • One Shakespeare play and one other drama, such as A Streetcar Named Desire or The Duchess of Malfi. • Critical essays related to the selected Shakespeare play. Unit 2 : Prose • Two prose texts from a chosen theme. At least one of the prose texts must be pre-1900, linked by a common theme such as women or the supernatural – for example Dracula and The Little Stranger or Wuthering Heights and Mrs Dalloway. Unit 3 : Poetry • Unseen poetry analysis • A selection of poetry from a post2000 collection and • A range of poetry from either a literary period or a named poet from within a literary period (for example, Chaucer). Unit 4: Coursework : • You have a free choice of two texts to study and write one extended comparative essay referring to both.