A2 Language & Literature - Tackling Unseen Material

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A2 Language & Literature

Start your contextual research on our second coursework poet, Sylvia Plath, by watching the documentary below:

AS Language & Literature

Among other things, THIS article accuses The Kite Runner of 'exploiting' the sympathy people feel towards Afghanistan. Do you agree?

AS Language and Literature

Click below for an alternative version of Williams' play from 1995. Do you prefer this to the Marlon Brando version?

AS Language and Literature

Here's a review of a recent production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.

AS Language & Literature

Click below to see an interview with Chinua Achebe:

AS Language and Literature

To complement your contextual understanding of 'Things Fall Apart', click here to listen to a programme about the problems facing the African continent throughout history.

AS Language and Literature

Click HERE to listen to this week's The Write Stuff radio show, which discusses (and jokes about) the work of Tennessee Williams

AS Language & Literature

Here are two photos of our classroom performance of Scene Seven of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', starring Milford as Stanley, Chrisel as Stella and Aida as Blanche.

AS Language & Literature

As part of your wider reading, you should read another of Tennessee Williams' plays: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'. HERE's a link to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor. What similarities are there between this play and 'Streetcar'? What parallels can you find between the events of this play and those of Williams' own life?

AS Language & Literature

A 'Streetcar Named Desire' came to London last year. Read reviews of the performance, starring Rachel Weisz HERE and HERE. If you were staging the play, who would you cast as Blanche, Stella, Stanley and Mitch?

AS Language and Literature

To add to your work with the biographical timeline, click here to see an interview with Tennessee Williams or here for a 5 part documentary called 'Wounded Genius'.

AS Language and Literature

So... did you recognise all of the terms used in the guessing game today? If not, find and learn the definition. The terms we used were:

METAPHOR /SIMILE /SOLILOQUY /FLASHBACK /STEREOTYPE /CLICHÉ / GENRE / TRAGEDY /COMEDY / SCENE / HERO /ACCENT / NOUN / PARAGRAPH / LITERATURE / IRONY

... and remember, you need to buy 'A Streetcar Named Desire' ASAP!

Language & Literature Required Reading

It is essential that all of my Language & Literature students (AS and Intensive) buy the following books asap:

'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams
'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

Please note that these are the 2 core texts you'll be studying with me this year - you will also be expected to read other texts by these authors as well as critical texts.