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Textos obligatorios de English Literature de AQA A level 2027

Los textos que el alumnado puede elegir para los exámenes de English Literature de AQA A level en 2027, organizados por examen y consultados en la especificación del tribunal. El centro elige cuáles estudian sus alumnos, así que pregunta en el departamento de inglés cuáles tiene tu hijo.

AQA A-level English Literature A (7712) (7712)

7712/1Love through the ages

Shakespeare (estudia one)

  • Othello, William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
  • The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

Comparative set texts: poetry and prose (estudia two: one poetry and one prose, one written pre-1900)

  • Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: Pre-1900, AQA ed.
  • Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: Post-1900, AQA ed.
  • Persuasion, Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • The Awakening, Kate Chopin
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
  • The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
  • Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (de 2027)

7712/2ATexts in shared contexts: WW1 and its aftermath

Core set texts (estudia at least one)

  • Regeneration, Pat Barker
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Oh! What a Lovely War, Joan Littlewood
  • Journey’s End, R.C. Sherriff
  • Up the Line to Death, ed. Brian Gardner
  • Scars Upon My Heart, ed. Catherine Reilly

Comparative set texts (estudia two, from this list or the core list)

  • Life Class, Pat Barker
  • A Long, Long Way, Sebastian Barry
  • The first Casualty, Ben Elton
  • Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves
  • A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • Strange Meeting, Susan Hill
  • Wake, Anna Hope (de 2027)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria RemarqueVintage paperback edition, translated by Brian Murdoch
  • The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
  • The Accrington Pals, Peter Whelan
  • Blackadder Goes Forth, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
  • My Boy Jack, David Haig
  • The Wipers Times, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman
  • The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, ed. George Walter
  • The Oxford Book of War Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy
  • The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, ed. Jon Stallworthy

7712/2BTexts in shared contexts: Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day

Core set texts (estudia at least one)

  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Waterland, Graham Swift
  • Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy
  • Skirrid Hill, Owen Sheers

Comparative set texts (estudia two, from this list or the core list)

  • Mr Loverman, Bernardine Evaristo (de 2027)
  • Spies, Michael Frayn
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
  • The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  • The Help, Kathryn Stockett
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  • Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
  • Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
  • Translations, Brian Friel
  • All My Sons, Arthur Miller
  • Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
  • Selected Poems 2013 Edition, Tony Harrison
  • New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Seamus Heaney
  • Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes
  • Ariel, Sylvia Plath

Printed for AS and A-level exams from June 2026. Paper 2 is taken as Option A (7712/2A) or Option B (7712/2B). The non-exam assessment (Texts across time) has no set list. Consultado en la especificación (Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025), pp. 17-22, el Saturday 26 September 2026.

AQA A-level English Literature B (7717) (7717)

7717/1ALiterary genres: Aspects of tragedy

Shakespeare (estudia one)

  • Othello, William Shakespeare
  • King Lear, William Shakespeare

Further set texts (estudia two, including one drama; at least one written pre-1900)

  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  • ‘Lamia’, ‘Isabella or The Pot of Basil’, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, 'The Eve of St. Agnes', John Keats
  • Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
  • Richard II, William Shakespeare
  • AQA English Literature B Poetry anthology (tragedy)

7717/1BLiterary genres: Aspects of comedy

Shakespeare (estudia one)

  • The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Further set texts (estudia two: one pre-1900 drama and one further text)

  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Geoffrey ChaucerIncluding Prologue and Epilogue
  • She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
  • Small Island, Andrea Levy
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • AQA English Literature B Poetry anthology (comedy)

7717/2ATexts and genres: Elements of crime writing

Set texts (estudia three: one post-2000 prose, one pre-1900 poetry and one further text)

  • When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • ‘Peter Grimes’, ‘The Laboratory’, ‘My Last Duchess’, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', George Crabbe, Robert Browning and Oscar Wilde
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • Kala, Colin Walsh (de 2027)

7717/2BTexts and genres: Elements of political and social protest writing

Set texts (estudia three: one post-2000 prose, one poetry and one further text; one written pre-1900)

  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake
  • Harvest, Jim Crace
  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens
  • Brotherless Night, V. V. Ganeshananthan
  • Selected Poems, Tony Harrison'V', 'National Trust', 'Them and [uz]', 'Divisions', 'Working', 'Marked with D'
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  • A Doll’s House, Henrik IbsenMethuen Drama edition, translated by Michael Meyer
  • Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare

Printed for AS and A-level exams from June 2026. Paper 1 is taken as Option 1A or 1B and Paper 2 as Option 2A or 2B. The non-exam assessment (Theory and independence) has no set list. Consultado en la especificación (Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025), pp. 21-26, el Saturday 26 September 2026.

También: exámenes de años anteriores, calculadora de límites de calificación y textos obligatorios de A level de otros tribunales.

cookie es independiente y no está afiliada a ningún tribunal de exámenes ni cuenta con su respaldo. Las listas contienen datos consultados en la especificación de cada tribunal, y se revisaron por última vez el Saturday 26 September 2026; la especificación es la referencia definitiva.