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Eduqas/WJEC GCSE English Literature Past Papers

The texts

Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Othello Much Ado About Nothing Henry V The Merchant of Venice

Poetry

The Manhunt Simon Armitage Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning London William Blake The Soldier Rupert Brooke She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron Living Space Imtiaz Dharker As Imperceptibly as Grief Emily Dickinson Cozy Apologia Rita Dove Valentine Carol Ann Duffy A Wife in London Thomas Hardy Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes To Autumn John Keats Afternoons Philip Larkin Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Ozymandias Percy Shelley Mametz Wood Owen Sheers Extract from The Prelude ("And in the frosty season..") William Wordsworth

Post-1914 Prose and Drama

Nineteenth Century Prose

Lord of the Flies William Golding Anita and Me Meera Syal Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro The Woman in Black Susan Hill Oranges are not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Simon Stephens A Taste of Honey Shelagh Delaney An Inspector Calls J. B. Priestley The History Boys Alan Bennett Blood Brothers Willy Russell

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Silas Marner George Eliot War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

Sample set for new specifications

Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry

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Component 2: Post-1914 Prose/Drama, 19th Century Prose and Unseen Poetry

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Summer 2017

Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry

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Component 2: Post-1914 Prose/Drama, 19th Century Prose and Unseen Poetry

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Summer 2018

Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry

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Component 2: Post-1914 Prose/Drama, 19th Century Prose and Unseen Poetry

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Summer 2019

Component 1: Shakespeare and Poetry

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Component 2: Post-1914 Prose/Drama, 19th Century Prose and Unseen Poetry

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