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English Literature - H072
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Free English Literature - H072 study notes for Cambridge OCR AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Component 01 Section 1: Shakespeare
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Richard III
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Component 01 Section 2: Poetry pre-1900 (final assessment 2027)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud
Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (2027 selection)
Component 01 Section 2: Poetry pre-1900 (first assessment 2028)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 1 & 2
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems
John Clare: Selected Poems
Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (2028 selection)
Component 02 Section 1: Drama post-1900
Noel Coward: Private Lives
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
Alan Bennett: The History Boys
Polly Stenham: That Face
Jez Butterworth: Jerusalem
Component 02 Section 2: Prose post-1900
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Examination skills
Shakespeare: responding to a proposition
Poetry: relating a printed extract to the whole text
Post-1900 drama: proposition essay technique
Prose and the unseen extract: making connections
Contexts, interpretations and critical terminology (AO3, AO5, AO1)
Closed-text essay planning and quotation from memory
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