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English literature → A-level → Unseen texts Ten questions to ask of any unseen text to help you start analysing it.

English literature → A-level → Coursework → Atonement and The Kite Runner Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

English literature → A-level → Coursework → Paradise Lost and Rebecca Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

English literature → A-level → Coursework → A Streetcar Named Desire and Never Let Me Go Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

English literature → A-level → Coursework → A Streetcar Named Desire and Wide Sargasso Sea Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

English literature → A-level → Coursework → The Wife of Bath’s Tale and A Doll’s House Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

A page explaining how we get from the word ‘Gothic’ referring to a Germanic tribe to its referring to a genre of fiction.

English literature → A-level → AQA (A) → Paper 1: Love through the ages → Comparing texts → ‘Love poetry through the ages, pre-1900’ Anthology poems grouped chronologically, with explanations, into Metaphysical, Romantic, Victorian, etc.

English literature → GCSE → AQA → Paper 2: Modern texts and poetry → Poetry → ‘Power and Conflict’ Anthology poems grouped chronologically, with explanations, into Romantic, Victorian, war poets, etc.

English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet Hamlet’s seven soliloquies compiled in a six-page PDF, with some brief analysis at the beginning about how they can be understood in terms of memory, understanding, and will.

English literature → A-level → Revision notes For each text that you are studying, make notes under some or all of the following headings. (The examples here are from A Streetcar Named Desire [1947] by Tennessee Williams.)

English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 1: Drama and poetry (pre-1900) → Christina Rossetti All fifteen of the Rossetti poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-six-page PDF.

English literature → Milton → Paradise Lost Key passages in an eighteen-page PDF. The three scenes of Book IX – Adam and Eve’s separation in the garden, Satan’s temptation of Eve, and Eve’s temptation of Adam – bookended by Satan’s first speech, and Adam and Eve’s final speeches of ‘mutual accusation’.

English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Metaphysical poetry → John Donne All twenty-nine of the Donne poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-four-page PDF.

Classical civilisation → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Culture and the arts → Greek theatre (Oedipus Rex, The Bacchae, Frogs) → Section B A selection of ‘Assess how far you agree with this statement’-type questions. Six-page PDF.

An opinionated little pamphlet.

English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → The Gothic → Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)

English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Keats → ‘Sonnet on the Sea’ Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file.

English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)