English Literature

Assessment

1. Two drama texts from the comedy genre, which will be externally assessed (Paper 1 is 2 hours and 15 minutes): William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The students will also study critical essays related to their chosen Shakespeare play. 2. Two prose texts of the Supernatural genre, also assessed externally (Paper 2 is 1 hour and 15 minutes): Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. 3. Two poetry texts, once again, externally assessed (Paper 3 is 2 hours and 15 minutes): Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 and Selected Poems: John Keats, editor John Barnard (Penguin Classics, 2007). 4. For the non-examined part of the course, students choose two texts to study on a similar theme, time, movement, or by the same author and write an extended comparative analysis on the texts.