English Literature

Assessment

Component 1: Drama & Poetry pre-1900 (written exam – 40%) You will study three texts – one Shakespeare play, one drama text and one poetry text – from the lists below. Shakespeare: • Coriolanus • Hamlet • Measure for Measure • The Tempest • Twelfth Night Drama text: • Marlow: Edward II • Webster: The Duchess of Malfi • Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer • Ibsen: A Doll’s House • Wilde: An Ideal Husband Poetry text: • Chaucer: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale • Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10 • Coleridge: Selected Poems • Tennyson: Maud • Rossetti: Selected Poems Component 2: Comparative & Contextual Study (written exam – 40%) You will study at least two complete texts from one of the following topics: • American Literature 1880-1940 • The Gothic • Dystopia • Women in Literature • The Immigrant Experience Component 3: Literature post-1900 (coursework – 20%) You will study three pieces of literature (one prose text, one poetry text and one drama text) one of which must have been published or first performed in 2000 or later. You will submit a close reading, critical analysis on one of the texts and a comparative essay on the other two.