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Textos obligatorios de English Literature de Edexcel A level 2027

Los textos que el alumnado puede elegir para los exámenes de English Literature de Pearson Edexcel 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.

9ET0/01Drama

Shakespeare: tragedy (estudia one Shakespeare play (tragedy or comedy))

  • Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • King Lear, William Shakespeare
  • Othello, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare: comedy (estudia one Shakespeare play (tragedy or comedy))

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Other drama: pre-1900 (estudia one other drama (pre-1900 or post-1900))

  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
  • The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • The Rover, Aphra Behn

Other drama: post-1900 (estudia one other drama (pre-1900 or post-1900))

  • Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Sweat, Lynn Nottage
  • Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

9ET0/02Prose

Childhood (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Hard Times, Charles DickensPre-1900
  • What Maisie Knew, Henry JamesPre-1900
  • Atonement, Ian McEwanPost-1900
  • The Color Purple, Alice WalkerPost-1900

Colonisation and its Aftermath (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark TwainPre-1900
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph ConradPre-1900
  • Home Fire, Kamila ShamsiePost-1900
  • The Lonely Londoners, Sam SelvonPost-1900

Crime and Detection (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth BraddonPre-1900
  • The Moonstone, Wilkie CollinsPre-1900
  • The Cutting Season, Attica LockePost-1900
  • In Cold Blood, Truman CapotePost-1900

Science and Society (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Frankenstein, Mary ShelleyPre-1900
  • The War of the Worlds, H G WellsPre-1900
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret AtwoodPost-1900
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo IshiguroPost-1900

The Supernatural (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Dracula, Bram StokerPre-1900
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar WildePre-1900
  • Beloved, Toni MorrisonPost-1900
  • The Little Stranger, Sarah WatersPost-1900

Women and Society (estudia one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas HardyPre-1900
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily BrontëPre-1900
  • Mrs Dalloway, Virginia WoolfPost-1900
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled HosseiniPost-1900

9ET0/03Poetry

Post-2000 specified poetry (estudia compulsory)

  • Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002-2011

Specified poetry: pre-1900 choices (estudia one text from the pre-1900 or post-1900 choices)

  • Everyman and Medieval Miracle PlaysMedieval Poetic Drama; editor A C Cawley (Everyman, 1993), or English Mystery Plays: A Selection, editor Peter Happe (Penguin Classics, 1975)
  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey ChaucerMedieval Poet; editor James Winny (Cambridge, 1994)
  • Metaphysical PoetryThe Metaphysical Poets; editor Colin Burrow (Penguin, 2006)
  • Selected Poems, John DonneMetaphysical Poet; Penguin Classics, 2006
  • English Romantic VerseThe Romantics; editor David Wright (Penguin Classics, 1973)
  • Selected Poems, John KeatsRomantic Poet; editor John Barnard (Penguin Classics, 2007)
  • The New Oxford Book of Victorian VerseThe Victorians; editor Christopher Ricks (OUP, 2008)
  • Selected Poems, Christina RossettiVictorian Poet; editor Dinah Roe (Penguin, 2008)

Specified poetry: post-1900 choices (estudia one text from the pre-1900 or post-1900 choices)

  • The Great Modern PoetsModernist Period; editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014)
  • Selected Poems, T S EliotModernist Poet; Faber, 2009
  • The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseThe Movement; editor Philip Larkin (OUP, 1973)
  • The Less Deceived, Philip LarkinThe Movement Poet; Faber, 2011

Across the three papers at least one pre-1900 text must be chosen. Pearson's "Texts by global majority writers" page says Les Blancs, Sweat, Home Fire and The Cutting Season were added for first teaching in September 2022; the spec gives no first exam year for them. The coursework has no set list. Consultado en la especificación (Issue 11, August 2025), pp. 8-9, 12, 15, 18-19, el Saturday 26 September 2026.

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

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