English Literature

Assessment

Component 1: Drama - Study of two Tragedy plays; A Streetcar Named Desire and Shakespeare’s Othello - 30%. Component 2: Prose - Two prose texts that explore the theme of Science and Society: Frankenstein and The Handmaid’s Tale (one pre-1900 text and one post 1900) - 20%. Component 3: Poetry - A selection of modern post-2000 poetry from Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 and a selection of poems from the Romanticism movement - 30%. Component 4: Coursework - An extended comparative essay referring to any two texts. Advisory total word count is 2500–3000 words - 20%.