English Literature

Course summary

You will immerse yourself in some of the most famous writers’ works, analysing and criticising them from your own individual point of view. You will be able to articulate your argument and analysis of prose, poetry, plays and short stories and will have developed a lifelong appreciation of fiction in all its forms. POETRY • Geoffrey Chaucer • Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes DRAMA • William Shakespeare • Christopher Marlowe • Lucy Prebble PROSE • Dystopia • Texts from 1880 – 1910