English Literature

Assessment

PAPER 1: DRAMA Students explore how playwrights use dramatic forms to shape the meanings in two plays. Plays include: Hamlet or Othello by Shakespeare The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams PAPER 2: PROSE Students compare genre features of two prose fiction texts. Comparisons include: Frankenstein by Shelley and The Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood Dracula by Stoker and The Little Stranger by Waters Wuthering Heights by Brontë and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini PAPER 3: POETRY Students learn to compare poetry from a contemporary collection with an unseen poem, as well as studying a selection from the work of a single named poet. Poets include: Chaucer Keats Larkin PAPER 4: COURSEWORK Students choose two texts and prepare a comparative essay exploring thematic links between them.