English Literature

Assessment

Component 1: Pre-1900 poetry (Milton or Chaucer) and Post-1900 poetry (Larkin & Duffy or Plath & Hughes) Component 2: a Shakespeare play (‘Hamlet’) and a comparison between two other plays (‘The Duchess of Malfi’ & ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’) Component 3: Unseen Paper – prose from the interwar period (1918-1939) and poetry texts Component 4 (Coursework): A comparative essay on two prose texts (one will be post-2000).