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The amazing thing about English Literature is your freedom to take the essay in any individual direction you want, especially in A level. Examiners will be looking for individual analysis and interpretati...

Williams employs plastic theatre as a means of giving physical onstage presence to abstract concepts in order to better clarify for the audience their meaning and significance within 'A Streetcar Named De...

Relevant for both GCSE and A Level: Every student will have a different way of doing a close reading of a poem. What is important is that a student finds a style with which they are comfortable and confid...

Sonnet 23 depicts a love that paralyses. The lover is compared to an actor who forgot his lines due to his fear and nervousness and loses his mastery of his role, also known as his ‘part’, implying that t...

The three main points that could be made of this statement are:

Hamlet himself is not a man of action, unlike many of Shakespeare's leading men. He spends much of the play brooding and plottin...