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English Literature (9675)
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Aspects of dramatic tragedy
William Shakespeare - Othello
William Shakespeare - King Lear
William Shakespeare - King Lear
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (B text)
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Brian Friel - Translations
Place in literary texts
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
Andrea Levy - Small Island
Aravind Adiga - Last Man in Tower
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
William Wordsworth selection: Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, Nutting, A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags, Michael, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Yarrow Unvisited, Daffodils, Elegaic Stanzas.
Robert Frost selection: Mending Wall, The Black Cottage, After Apple-Picking, The Wood-Pile, The Road Not Taken, Birches, “Out, Out –”, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, A Brook in the City, On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellation, Desert Places, An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Mailbox.
Thomas Hardy selection: Neutral Tones, At an Inn, At a Lunar Eclipse, To an Unborn Pauper Child, The Darkling Thrush, The Self-Unseeing, Channel Firing, The Convergence of the Twain, The Going, After a Journey, Beeny Cliff, At Castle Boterel, Places, The Oxen, In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’.
Seamus Heaney selection: Mid-Term Break, Personal Helicon, The Peninsular, Requiem for the Croppies, Bogland, Anahorish, A New Song, The Tollund Man, Westering, North, Bog Queen, The Graubelle Man, Punishment, Act of Union, The Toome Road.
Elements of crime and mystery In Elements
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Robert Browning - The Laboratory, My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover, The Patriot, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Confessional, Time’s Revenges, Count Gismond
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Man of the Crowd, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, The Fall of the House of Usher
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Body Snatcher, Markheim, A Lodging for the Night
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red Heroine
Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?