English Literature

Course summary

The AQA English Literature B specification affords students the opportunity to study texts within the genre of Tragedy, and Social and Political protest writing. At present, students’ drama study includes Othello by William Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; poetry study includes a collection of Keats’ epic poems, and Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake; and prose study involves The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.