Pearson Edexcel • English Literature 2015

Includes list of all past questions for Edexcel English A Level Paper 2, comparing 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Mrs Dalloway. Includes essay plans on: romantic relationships/marriage, women's experiences of love, time, setting, isolation/loneliness, female agency/autonomy, identity, disappointment/hope, and class/societal judgement. Useful for exam preparation.

Notes on and comparisons between context for Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' for Edexcel English A Level Paper 2: Prose. Useful for incorporating Ao3 and Ao4 into essays. Includes context on both the Victorian age and modernism in the 1920s.

Detailed notes on what makes Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' a tragedy. Very useful for context and AO3 in exams.

A collection of quotes from Shakespeare's 'King Lear' organised by theme. Helpful for creating essay plans, writing essays, or creating flashcards off of in preparation for exams. Themes are: justice, authority/kingship/power, family relationships, age and generational divide/mortality etc.

Not entirely complete, but includes detailed essay plans on various themes and characters in Shakespeare's 'King Lear': blindness, suffering, family relationships, justice, madness, control, Lear, Kent, Cordelia, the Fool, Edmund, and Edgar.

A short summary sheet including concise quotes from critics on various themes and characters in, and various contextual factors that influenced Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Useful for making flashcards out of, for writing essays, or reading over closer to the exam.

An exemplar essay on how Williams presents desire in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' that got 23/25 marks (A*).

'Streetcar' essay plans by both themes and characters. Some are very detailed, whereas some are more simple and condensed. Themes include: desire, illusion, social class, femininity, power, conflict, marriage, the play's opening, tragedy, masculinity, characters' inner lives, confrontation, the rise of a new social order, and death. Characters include: Blanche, Stanley, and Stella.

Quotes from 'Streetcar' organised by themes: desire, death, illusion and madness, and social class. Ideal for using to plan essays.

List of named critics (AO5) of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Perfect for Pearson Edexcel English Literature A-level Paper 1 Drama.