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English Literature British Authors English Medium

English literature handwritten notes on the British canon — poetry from Chaucer to Heaney, drama from the morality plays to Stoppard, and the novel from Defoe to Rushdie, with the dates, first lines, characters and critical labels that exams ask for.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Literature British Authors British Poetry — Chaucer to the Present English literature handwritten notes on British poetry from Beowulf to Seamus Heaney — Old English alliterative verse and the kenning, Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, the sonneteers Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser and Shakespeare with the three sonnet forms, Donne and the Metaphysicals, Milton and Paradise Lost, Dryden and Pope and the mock-epic, the Graveyard School, the six Romantics and the great English elegies, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and Hopkins, the war poets, Yeats, Eliot and The Waste Land, and the Movement, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Literature British Authors British Drama — Mystery Plays to Stoppard English literature handwritten notes on British drama — the medieval mystery, miracle and morality plays with Everyman, the first English tragedy and comedy, the University Wits and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare and the Jacobeans including Jonson’s comedy of humours and Webster, the Restoration comedy of manners and Jeremy Collier, Goldsmith and Sheridan, the revival under Ibsen with Wilde and Shaw, the Irish Dramatic Revival and the Abbey Theatre, and the modern stage from Look Back in Anger and Waiting for Godot to Pinter and Stoppard, with a character-to-play list, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Literature British Authors The British Novel — Defoe to the Present English literature handwritten notes on the British novel — Ian Watt and the rise of the novel, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne with the firsts of the form, Jane Austen, Scott and Mary Shelley, the Victorian novel from Dickens and Thackeray to the Brontës, George Eliot and Hardy, the modern novel of Conrad, Forster, Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf with stream of consciousness, and the post-war and Booker generation, with famous opening lines, a character-to-novel list, the kinds of novel, flashcards and practice questions. Open map