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Place & Identity Ark John Keats English Department Introductory A-level Anthology Name ________________ KS5 English Reading List To be a fantastic student of Literature, and a fantastic interview candidate, you need to have distinctive reading habits that you are passionate about. You should be curious about all Literature, but love the Literature that comes to feel like ‘yours’. There are lots of books here because there are lots of different ways into English, rather than one ‘right’ way. Literary Criticism & Essays – KS5 pupils often don’t read these, but they will spark a million different ideas and more things to read and explore. Doing Shakespeare, Simon Palfrey – A fantastic intro, that will give you a hundred new ways of seeing Shakespeare. The Secret Life of Poems, Tom Paulin – A beautiful book analysing a few poems, good to browse without reading every single essay The Ode Less Travelled, Stephen Fry – A more accessible introduction to poetic form Feel Free, Zadie Smith – A beautiful and fun collection of essays on all things cultural, political and literary. Intimations, Zadie Smith Seven Types of Ambiguity, William Empson Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson – The metaphors we use all the time and what this means about us. Especially good if you are interested in English Language at Uni. Square Haunting, Francesca Wade – for background on Virginia Woolf. 1599, James Shapiro – for background on Shakespeare’s life and times. Podcasts (search on iTunes or your podcast app): Emma Smith, ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ and ‘Not Shakespeare’ - Recordings of undergraduate lectures from Oxford University. Simon Armitage, Professor of Poetry Lectures well-written, wide-ranging, accessible public lectures on poetry from different eras. Shakespeare Unlimited – interesting interviews with Shakespeare academics, performers, writers and historians The Spouter Inn - explores great books from a range of eras, including on Virginia Woolf Josie and Robin’s Book Shambles - writers, comedians and scientists talk about books they like. Best episodes: Stewart Lee, AL Kennedy, Philip Ridley, Noel Fielding In Our Time – decades of BBC discussions on all things; search for any Literature topic. Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast – Comedian Frank Skinner talks you through close readings of his favourite poems Responses to the classics – Read a great text, and learn about the text it reacts to at the same time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard – response to Hamlet If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino – a beautiful book about reading and bookshops 2 Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys – response to Jane Eyre The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde – Very funny mash-up of loads of Literature books Hagseed, Margaret Atwood – response to The Tempest Canonical English Literature (in chronological order): Beowulf, translation Seamus Heaney Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translation Simon Armitage The Vampyre And Other Tales Of The Macabre, OUP Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (if you didn’t read the whole of it in Year 9!) David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Late Victorian Gothic Tales, OUP The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde The Time Machine, HG Wells Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett Selected Poems, TS Eliot The Waves, Virginia Woolf The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Wise Children, Angela Carter Modern Theatre Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth Mr Burns, Ann Washburn Shipwreck, Ann Washburn Top Girls, Caryl Churchill Debris, Dennis Kelly Barbershop Chronicles, Inua Ellams Three Sisters, Inua Ellams Also, you live in London, the best thing to do if you’re interested in theatre is to go to the theatre, especially The Globe, The Royal Court and The National Theatre Update: We have access to a selection of plays from the National Theatre’s archive. Recommended plays to watch: Julius Caesar (NT/The Bridge) – a fantastic, clear, creative production of Shakespeare’s tragedy with a Donald Trump-like Caesar and brilliant performances. A real must before reading Hamlet next year. Antigone (NT) – modern translation of a classic Greek play, which will give you good context for Hamlet (be warned: not super easy, even in English!) Small Island (NT) To be able to access the resources go to: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Username: 4Sdy2Jl-f- Password: 0Be44Mc+l! 3 Modern Fiction: Insurrecto, Gina Apostle The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood The Testaments, Margaret Atwood White Teeth, Zadie Smith A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro Modern poetry Out Of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets, ed. Jackie Kay Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets, Ed. Roddy Lumsden Look, We Have Coming to Dover!, Daljit Nagra Citizen, Claudia Rankin Surge, Jay Bernard Dear Boy, Emily Berry Happiness, Jack Underwood Men in the Off-Hours, Anne Carson Adventures in Form, Penned in the Margins Coin Opera II, Sidekick Books You can also watch poetry readings online. This one with Jay Barnard and Tracy K Smith is really good: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and- videos/videos/bookshop-events-films/tracy-k.-smith-and-jay-bernard 4 This booklet Successful A-level students read and think about a wide range of Literature. There are two reasons to do this: 1. To work out their own tastes and preferences. We all like different Literature, and we don’t know what we’ll like until we’ve read some of it. 2. To have a wide range of comparison when reading something new. When have I read something like this before? Where does this writing ‘fit’? Your teachers will use this booklet in Term 1 of Year 12 to develop your knowledge and curiosity as readers. You will use it again at the end of Year 12 to help select your text for coursework. We’ve chosen texts and extracts carefully because they will give you a background for the main texts we’re studying on the course, and because we think you’ll enjoy them and find them interesting. What you need to do • Keep it safe. • Read and annotate each extract with thought, creativity and curiosity. • Write short answers for each question (around half a page total per extract). The questions should also help guide your annotations. • Bring it back in September with your notes in it. When you annotate the extracts, focus on the following: • The ways writers respond to place and identity. This includes the ways they show settings, locations, contemporary issues, change, their relationship with others. • The form and structure of their work. • Anything else you find interesting. • Any questions you have for other readers. We look forward to discussing these texts with you in September and hearing all of your wonderful ideas. Picture on front of booklet – illustration of John Keats (Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica) 5 “The concept of the ‘Other’ in literature can take on numerous forms. One thread of thought considers it to be an individual who is perceived by a group as not belonging; as they have been culturally constructed as being fundamentally different in some way. The group sees itself as the ‘standard’, and judges those who do not meet that norm. They perceive the ‘other’ as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group. The ‘Other’ is almost always seen as a lesser or inferior being, and is treated accordingly.” “Often, the practice of ‘othering’ not only is an act of identifying differences, it is rooted in designating the dominant culture as superior to all others and their cultural practices as common place and normal. In turn, this results in the stereotyping and generalization of marginalized cultures, commonly labeling the other as less than superior and abnormal.” - The Theory of the Other and its Effects on Artists of Color, by Joo Young Choi It’s a slippery word, ‘other’. Taken in one light, it throws up barriers and insists on divisions. It is fearful and finger-pointing: them, not us. But looked at in another way, it is rangy, open and expansive. It suggests horizons, not walls.​ - Alex Diggins, book review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo in The Spectator 6 #1 – Henry V by William Shakespeare, 1599 Henry V is one of Shakespeare’s history plays. It ends a trilogy in which the young King grows into full manhood, acquiring all the virtues that Shakespeare identified in a true hero. Here, Henry gives a rousing speech to prepare his men for battle, and to shape the conflict’s meaning. 1. How does Shakespeare make Henry V’s lines sound inspiring in this speech? 2. How does Shakespeare show Henry V forging an identity for his army? KING HENRY V What's he that wishes so? This story shall the good man teach his son; My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, If we are mark'd to die, we are enow From this day to the ending of the world, To do our country loss; and if to live, But we in it shall be remember'd; The fewer men, the greater share of honour. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; This day shall gentle his condition: It yearns me not if men my garments wear; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Such outward things dwell not in my desires: Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, But if it be a sin to covet honour, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks I am the most offending soul alive.

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