English Literature

Course summary

One Shakespeare play and one other drama from either comedy or tragedy from the texts below. Tragedy; William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello pre-1900: Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe; The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster The Home Place, Brian Friel; A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams Comedy: William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night pre-1900: The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde; The Rover, Aphra Behn The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall; Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett.