EDEXCEL A Level English Literature

Course summary

You will study an exciting range of texts across 3 components: drama, prose and poetry. In Year 12 you will study an anthology of poetry written after the year 2000, you will study a modern play such as A Streetcar Named Desire’, and you will compare two novels with a common theme such as female identity in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and A Thousand Splendid Suns. In Year 13 you will deepen your understanding of these 3 components with a Shakespeare play and the study either of an individual poet or poetic school ssuch as Romanticism.