RGS Newcastle English
L6th and U6th resources
Links to more specific textual resources
Jane Austen's Persuasion
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The Jane Austen Info Page (authoritative multiple resources website)

Jane Austen and Narrative Authority (Wallace) - excerpt from authoritative textbook

Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party
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Class worksheet & questions: p.37 to 44 

School Library reading list

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale
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Luminarium  Chaucer website (authoritative multiple resources website)



Links to useful general websites

Voice of the Shuttle
The place to start: a vast database of literary and humanities-related resources.

The Victorian Web
A large database on the literature, history and culture of the 19th century.

In Our Time
BBC Radio 4 discussion: explores a topic each week (e.g. Tragedy, The Metaphysical Poets, Elizabethan Revenge); the entire archive is downloadable free via iTunes. An amazing resource.

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Six lectures by Oxford University’s Emma Smith, downloadable free via iTunes

Approaching Shakespeare
Emma Smith focuses on a single play in each lecture, downloadable free via iTunes

Modern American Poetry
A good place to start looking for critical approaches to modern American poetry
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets.htm

Printable King James Bible
An extremely handy way of printing out an individual book of the 1611 King James Bible/ Authorised Version - massively influential on literature in English

The Web Concordances
Enables word/phrase search in the poetry of Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, Hopkins

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AS/A2 past exam papers and OCR exam board specifications (click on blue buttons)
OCR  AS exam paper F661 (June 2011)
OCR  AS exam paper F661 (January 2012)
F661 change of AS set texts from September 2012
OCR  A2 exam paper F663 (June 2011)
OCR  A2 exam paper F663 (January 2012)
F663  A2 set texts from 2013
OCR English Literature AS/A2 specification
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

"Jane Eyre to Wide Sargasso Sea" (Bronte Studies, July 2009)

"Charlotte Bronte & John Martin" (19th Century Studies, 1995)

"The Final Chapter of Jane Eyre" (Bronte Society Transactions, 1998)

Jane Eyre reading list (SJB)

John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi

"A Dirge" (Mahon)

"Ambiguity of Bosola" (Thayer)

"Emblem and Antithesis" (Belsey)

"Gallant's Burden" (Thomas Adams)

"Sexual and Social Mobility" (Whigham)