Paper 1: Love through the ages: Section A: Shakespeare: A study of one of the following: Othello The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear or Hamlet You may want to focus your wider reading on other tragedies written around the same time. In which case, The White Devil by John Webster, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe or Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy would be suitable. Section B: Unseen Poetry: Comparing & contrasting two poems, based on the theme of love, from different literary periods. In lessons we will cover many poems as unseen and it would be beneficial for you to be as widely read in this genre as possible. You may want to purchase a text such as The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy or The New Faber Book of Love Poem, ed. John Fenton. Section C: Comparing Texts: A class study of one of the following fantastic novels, allowing you to compare its representations of love to those in a Pre-1900 Poetry Anthology. As with each element of these exams, there are several options. One example is: Option 2B: Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the present day. Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts Section A: Core Text Most likely, the study of a poetry collection such as Owen Sheers or Carol Ann Duffy. Section B: Comparison Texts For this section, we’ll be comparing texts and their contexts. This section also asks you to analyse an unseen prose extract. Throughout the course, we will supply some prose extracts for you to explore. It would again be beneficial to you to be as widely read in modern literature as possible.