A2 LITERATURE: WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back to A2, I hope you had an excellent summer. First things first: these are the texts you need to buy for my side of the course this year. Firstly, we are starting with The Pardoner's Tale by Chaucer. Make sure that you buy the original text and not a modern 'translation' version. Two good versions you might want to consider are the Cambridge University Press version (ISBN 0 - 521-46818 - 3) and the Cambridge School version (ISBN 978-0-521-66645-9). Our second text is Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Please make sure that you buy the folio A version rather than folio B. The best version, in my opinion, is the Longman version (ISBN 978-0582817807), which has some good notes in it. Our final text will be Shakespeare's Othello. It's up to you which version you get and you should be able to pick up a second hand copy easily if you want to (my preferred version is the Cambridge version ISBN 0-521-53517-4). These three texts will be our exam texts & now you know which ones we are doing you can start getting organised on your background reading. A good place to start would be to find out as much as you can about what life was like in 14thC England and in 17thC England. You might also want to do some reading on morality plays. I'll post some good links to some good sites another time...