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Eduqas A level English Literature set texts 2027

The texts students choose from for Eduqas A level English Literature exams in 2027, paper by paper, read from the board's specification. The school picks which ones its students study, so ask the English department which your child has.

Component 1: Poetry

Poetry pre-1900 (study one)

  • The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey ChaucerCambridge
  • Selected Poems, John DonnePenguin Classics
  • Paradise Lost Book IX, John MiltonOxford
  • Poems selected by Patti Smith, William BlakeVintage
  • Selected Poems, Christina RossettiPenguin Classics

Poetry post-1900 (paired texts) (study one pair)

  • Poems selected by Tom Paulin, Thomas HardyFaber; paired with T S Eliot
  • Selected Poems, T S EliotFaber; paired with Thomas Hardy
  • Poems selected by Seamus Heaney, W. B. YeatsFaber; paired with Dannie Abse
  • Welsh Retrospective, Dannie AbseSeren; paired with W. B. Yeats
  • Poems selected by Simon Armitage, Ted HughesFaber; paired with Sylvia Plath
  • Poems selected by Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathFaber; paired with Ted Hughes
  • The Whitsun Weddings, Philip LarkinFaber; paired with Carol Ann Duffy
  • Mean Time, Carol Ann DuffyPicador; paired with Philip Larkin
  • Field Work, Seamus HeaneyFaber; paired with Owen Sheers
  • Skirrid Hill, Owen SheersSeren; paired with Seamus Heaney

Component 2: Drama

Shakespeare (study one)

  • King Lear, William Shakespeare
  • Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • Henry IV Part 1, William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest, William Shakespeare

Drama (paired texts, one pre-1900 and one post-1900) (study one pair)

  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher MarloweLongman; paired with Enron
  • Enron, Lucy PrebbleMethuen; paired with Doctor Faustus
  • The Duchess of Malfi, John WebsterMethuen; paired with A Streetcar Named Desire
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee WilliamsPenguin Modern Classics; paired with The Duchess of Malfi
  • The Revenger’s Tragedy, Thomas MiddletonMethuen; paired with Loot
  • Loot, Joe OrtonMethuen; paired with The Revenger’s Tragedy
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar WildeNew Mermaids; paired with Betrayal
  • Betrayal, Harold PinterFaber; paired with Lady Windermere’s Fan
  • Measure for Measure, William ShakespeareAny edition; paired with Murmuring Judges
  • Murmuring Judges, David HareFaber; paired with Measure for Measure

Eduqas's current set texts list (checked 2026-09-26) matches this version. Post-1900 poetry and Section B drama texts are studied in the pairs shown in each note. Component 1 is open book with the prescribed editions. Component 3 (unseen texts) and Component 4 (prose study, non-exam assessment) have no set list. Read from the specification (Version 3, March 2020), pp. 6-8, on Saturday 26 September 2026.

Also: past papers, grade calculator, and other boards' A level set texts.

cookie is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any exam board. The lists are facts read from each board's own specification, last checked on Saturday 26 September 2026; the specification is the final word.