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Aspects of dramatic tragedy
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William Shakespeare - Othello
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William Shakespeare - King Lear
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William Shakespeare - King Lear
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Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (B text)
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John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
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Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
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Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
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Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
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Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
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Brian Friel - Translations
Place in literary texts
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Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
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Aravind Adiga - Last Man in Tower
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Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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
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William Shakespeare - Macbeth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of Ancient Mariner
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Robert Browning - The Laboratory, My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover, The Patriot, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Confessional, Time’s Revenges, Count Gismond
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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
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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
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Body Snatcher, Markheim, A Lodging for the Night
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Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red Heroine
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Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
Literary representations
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Representations of childhood
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Representations of war
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Representations of women/men
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Representations of race/class/culture
