AS/A Level English Language and Literature (EMC) H074/H474

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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Qualifications

• English Language and Literature (EMC) - H074, H474 (from 2015)