AS/A Level English Language and Literature (EMC) H074/H474
01 March 2016
Editions of set texts
The following editions will be the ones used in setting the exams for each series.
Poetry
- William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Oxford Paperbacks, 1970)
- Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems (Faber & Faber, 1976)
- Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground – Poems 1966-1996 (Faber & Faber, 2002)
- Eavan Boland: New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2005)
- Carol Ann Duffy: Rapture (Picador, 2005)
- Jacob Sam-la Rose: Breaking Silence (Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
Drama
- William Shakespeare: Othello (1606; Cambridge School Shakespeare edition, ed Rex Gibson, Jane Coles,
Richard Andrews, 2014) - Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895; Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed Peter Raby, 2008)
- Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947; Penguin Classics Edition, 2009)
- Brian Friel: Translations (1980; Faber & Faber edition, 1981)
- Timberlake Wertenbaker: Our Country’s Good (1988; Methuen Drama; New Edition, 1995)
- Jez Butterworth: Jerusalem (2009; NHB Modern Plays, 2009)
Editions for prose set texts will not be specified.
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