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English Literature (9ET0)
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Free English Literature (9ET0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Tragedy
Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Othello, William Shakespeare
Comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night
Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Other Drama
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
The Rover, Aphra Behn
Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Sweat, Lynn Nottage
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Prose - Childhood
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
What Maisie Knew, Henry James
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Prose - Colonisation and its Aftermath
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
Prose - Crime and Detection
Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Cutting Season, Attica Locke
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Prose - Science and Society
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds, H G Wells
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Prose - The Supernatural
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Prose - Women and Society
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Poems of the Decade (prescribed poems)
Eat Me — Patience Agbabi
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass — Simon Armitage
Material — Ros Barber
History — John Burnside
An Easy Passage — Julia Copus
The Deliverer — Tishani Doshi
The Lammas Hireling — Ian Duhig
To My Nine-Year-Old Self — Helen Dunmore
A Minor Role — U A Fanthorpe
The Gun — Vicki Feaver
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled — Leontia Flynn
Giuseppe — Roderick Ford
Out of the Bag — Seamus Heaney
Effects — Alan Jenkins
Genetics — Sinéad Morrissey
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man — Andrew Motion
Look We Have Coming to Dover! — Daljit Nagra
Please Hold — Ciaran O’Driscoll
On Her Blindness — Adam Thorpe
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn — Tim Turnbull
Poetry
The Medieval Period Medieval Poetic Drama
Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011
Medieval Poet: Geoffrey Chaucer
Metaphysical Poetry The Metaphysical Poets
Metaphysical Poet: John Donne
The Romantic Period The Romantics
Romantic Poet: John Keats
The Victorian Period The Victorians
Victorian Poet: Christina Rossetti
The Modernist Period Modernism
Modernist Poet: T S Eliot
The Movement The Movement
The Movement Poet: Philip Larkin
Skills: Essay & unseen
Comparative essay technique (AO4)
Unseen poem comparison (Component 3 Section A)
Open-book quotation and textual reference
Context in literary essays (AO3)
Critical interpretations and the Shakespeare anthology (AO5)
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