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English Literature - H472
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Free English Literature - H472 study notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Shakespeare play (until 2026)
Coriolanus
Measure for Measure
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare (from 2027)
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Richard III
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Shakespeare play
Hamlet
Richard III
The Tempest
Pre-1900 drama text
Christopher Marlowe: Edward II
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband
Pre-1900 poetry text
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
American Literature 1880–1940
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Contexts and genre conventions: American Literature 1880–1940
Unseen prose extract: American Literature 1880–1940
The Gothic
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Contexts and genre conventions: The Gothic
Unseen prose extract: The Gothic
Dystopia
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Contexts and genre conventions: Dystopia
Unseen prose extract: Dystopia
Women in Literature
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Contexts and genre conventions: Women in Literature
Unseen prose extract: Women in Literature
The Immigrant Experience
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Henry Roth: Call It Sleep
Contexts and genre conventions: The Immigrant Experience
Unseen prose extract: The Immigrant Experience
Skills: Essay & unseen
Shakespeare extract analysis
Shakespeare: responding to a proposition on the whole play
Pre-1900 drama and poetry comparative essay
Comparative essay across two whole texts
Unseen prose passage analysis
Contexts of writing and reception
Different interpretations and critical reception
Closed-book quotation and textual recall
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