English A Enrichment Programme

PRE AND POST IB READING LIST

GREEK RENAISSANCE TRAGEDY

Aeschylus: Oresteia trilogy (458 BC) Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus and Other Plays, Sophocles: Antigone (442 BC) ed. David Bevington & Eric Rasmussen (Oxford). Oedipus the King (430 BC) , Three Plays ed. D.C. Gunby Electra date unknown (Penguin) and The Duchess of Euripides: Medea (431 BC) Malfi The Trojan Women (415 BC) The Bacchae (406 BC) Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Katherine Eisaman Maus (ed.), Four Revenge You may also want to read the following texts: (Oxford Homer: The (8th century BC) The Iliad (760-710 BC) Virgil: The Aeneid (29-19 BC) : (8 AD) SPECIAL TOPIC: SINCE YEATS

PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS , Selected Poems (Penguin, 2000) Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Shakespeare: Complete works Longley (Faber, 2001) Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck (1884) , Collected Poems 1956-2001 A Doll’s House (1879) (Carcanet, 2001) Hedda Gabler (1890) , Selected Poems (Penguin, 2001) : Waiting for Godot (1955) Endgame (1958) , Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96 (Faber, 1998) Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party (1957) The Caretaker (1959) Michael Longley, Selected Poems (Cape, 1998) The Dumb Waiter (1957) , Selected Poems (Penguin, 2000) Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947) Tom Paulin, Selected Poems 1972-1990 Death of a Salesman (1949) (Faber 1993) View from the Bridge (1955) : Poems 1968-98 (Faber, 2000) Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944) SPECIAL TOPIC: KEATS AND SHELLEY A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, edited by Donald H Eugene O’ Neill: Reiman and Neil Fraistat, Norton Critical Edition (2002) Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941) (1939) John Keats, edited by Elizabeth Cook (Oxford Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) Authors Series, 2001)

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Some Important British Poets: Malory, Sir Thomas. The Works of Sir Thomas Lord Byron Malory. Ed. Eugene Vinaver and P.J.C Field. 3rd William Wordsworth edn. 3 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1990 William Blake Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript. Ed Andrew Marvell Helen Cooper. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford John Donne University Press, 1998. (An acceptable modernised Elizabeth Barrett Browning spelling and slightly abridged edition). Carol Ann Duffy

Renaissance and Victorian Retellings: Some Important American Poets: Sylvia Plath Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed. Thomas P. Emily Dickinson Roche. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 William Carlos Williams Robert Lowell Twentieth-Century Retellings: e e cummings Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Maya Angelou Court. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford Robert Frost University Press, 1997. T.S.Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson SPECIAL TOPIC: CHARLES DICKENS Langston Hughes David Copperfield Bleak House SPECIAL TOPIC: CHAUCER A Tale of Two Cities The Miller’s Tale Dickens’s Letters The Knight’s Tale The Oxford Clarendon Press completed the twelve The Pardoner’s Tale volume publication of Dickens’s Letters (The Pilgrim The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale Edition, 1965-2002) covering the years 1820-1870. Students may find some of these letters illuminating SPECIAL TOPIC: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE about the novelist’s working methods. Biography: General Anthologies: Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens (1990). Readable modern Goodrich, Peter. The Romance of Merlin: An biography Anthology. New York and London: Garland 1990 Forster, John, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74). Wilhelm, James H. The Romance of Arthur: An

Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation. 2nd edn. SPECIAL TOPIC: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1267. New York and London: Garland Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Medieval English Romance: , The Picture of Dorian Gray Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. W.R.J. Barron. George Du Maurier, Trilby Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1974. Bram Stoker, Dracula (Original and prose edition). H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories - 2 - English A Enrichment Programme

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Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) SPECIAL TOPIC: POST WAR FICTION Alias Grace (1996) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) Oryx and Crake (2003) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) The Penelopiad (2005) Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince (1973) SPECIAL TOPIC: AMERICAN FICTION

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) SPECIAL TOPIC: THE BRONTËS Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918) Charlotte Brontë: Villette Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) Shirley Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) The Professor Slave Narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall American Slave (1845) Agnes Grey William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) Poetry The Domestic Plot:

Biography: Louise M Alcott, Little Women, Parts I and II Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë Rewriting the Domestic Plot: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Contextual Reading: (1892) Terry Eagleton, Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) the Brontës (1988) The Hero in Twentieth Century US Fiction: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929) the Attic (1979) The Anti-Hero in Twenthieth-Century Fiction: Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 (1985) Money and Manners: Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Other Novels and Novelists: Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905) The Age of Innocence (1920) Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (19854-55) F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) Tender is the Night George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871) American Tragedies: Silas Marner (1861) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) The Mill on the Floss (1860) ‘We, the people’ : A Portrait of the Artist as a John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1911) Young Man (1916)

Dubliners (short story collection)

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