AS Level English Literature - what you need to know
There are two section of the English Literature AS Level. Here you will find all the information that you need
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Component 1
Section 1 (01)
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Shakespeare and poetry pre-1900
Value: 50 %
Marks: 60
Timing: 1 hr and a half
closed books
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Students will study ONE of the following:
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Coriolanus
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Hamlet
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Measure for Measure
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Richard III
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The Tempest
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Twelfth Night
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Componennt 1
Section 2 (01)
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Students will study ONE pre-1900 drama and ONE pre 1900 text
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Chaucer - The Merchant's Prologue & Tale
Milton - Paradise Lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Selected poems
A L Tennyson - Maud
C Rosetti - Selected poetry
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Component 2
Section 1 (02)
Drama post-1900
Value: 50%
Marks: 60
Timing: 1 hour and a quarter
Closed books.
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Students will study ONE play.
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Noel Coward - Private Lives
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Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar named Desire
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Harold Pinter - The Homecoming
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Alan Bennett - The History Boys
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Polly Stenham - The Face
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Jez Butterworth - Jerusalem
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Component 2
Section 2 (02)
Pros post-1900
Students will study ONE text.
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Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber etc.
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George Orwell - 1984
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Virginia Wolf - Mrs Dalloway
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Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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