Detailed notes on context (historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes). Detailed notes on analysis and symbolism (includes the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street. A more in-depth biography of Tennessee Williams Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.

Detailed analysis of all poems on the Poems of the Decade Edexcel A-Level English Literature specification (as of 2018), with the exception of ‘Out of the Bag’ (omitted for exam strategy). Eat Me Patience Agbabi 3 Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass Simon Armitage 6 Material Ros Barber 10 History John Burnside 25 An Easy Passage Julia Copus 37 The Deliverer Tishani Doshi 43 The Lammas Hireling Ian Duhig 51 To My Nine-Year-Old Self Helen Dunmore 52 A Minor Role U A Fanthorpe 57 The Gun Vicki Feaver 62 The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled Leontia Flynn 64 Giuseppe Roderick Ford 66 Effects Alan Jenkins 92 Genetics Sinéad Morrissey 125 From the Journal of a Disappointed Man Andrew Motion 127 Look We Have Coming to Dover! Daljit Nagra 129 Please Hold Ciaran O’Driscoll 132 On Her Blindness Adam Thorpe 170 Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn Tim Turnbull 172

Detailed context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions. Critical quotes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both from the prescribed anthology and from elsewhere. Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.