Students taking Paper 1 (Open Books) must answer on three different set texts. They must
answer on one set text in each section.
Students taking Paper 4 (Closed Books) must answer on four different set texts. At least one set
text must be taken from each section.
* text examined also in June and November 2010
** text examined also in June and November 2010 and June and November 2011
Unless otherwise indicated, students may use any edition of the set text, provided it is not
an abridgement or simplified version.
Section A: DRAMA
* Alan Ayckbourn A Small Family Business
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
** Charlotte Keatley My Mother Said I Never Should
* Arthur Miller The Crucible
William Shakespeare As You Like It
** William Shakespeare Richard III
Section B: POETRY
from Section 3 of Songs of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Foundation Books; ISBN 81-7596-248-8) (For further details about this anthology, please see the subject page on CIE’s website. Other selections from it will be prescribed for study in future years. The anthology also features in the set texts list for AS Literature in English.)
The following fifteen poems are to be studied:
Maya Angelou: ‘Caged Bird’
Norman Nicholson: ‘Rising Five’
Mervyn Morris: ‘Little Boy Crying’
Carol Rumens: ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’
P. B. Shelley: ‘Song to the Men of England’
A. H. Clough: from ‘Spectator Ab Extra’
Hone Tuwhare: ‘Monologue’
Charles Mungoshi: ‘Before the Sun’
Sujata Bhatt: ‘Muliebrity’
William Wordsworth: ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’
James K. Baxter: ‘Farmhand’
Isobel Dixon: ‘Plenty’
Liz Lochhead: ‘Storyteller’
Charles Lamb: ‘The Old Familiar Faces’
Seamus Heaney: ‘Mid-Term Break’
* John Keats from Poems (Everyman’s Poetry selected and edited by Nicholas Roe, Dent/Orion: ISBN 0-460-87808-5)
The following ten poems are to be studied: from Endymion: A Poetic Romance, Book 1: lines 1-33 (from ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:’ to ‘They alway must be with us, or we die.’)
The Eve of St Agnes
La belle dame sans merci
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
To Autumn
‘Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art’
Section C: PROSE
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
* Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
* Ian Cross The God Boy
** Anita Desai Games at Twilight
William Golding Lord of the Flies
* Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Barrie Wade, ed. from Into the Wind: Contemporary Stories in English (Nelson)
The following twelve stories are to be studied:
Alex La Guma: ‘The Lemon Orchard’
Jean Rhys: ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’
John Wyndham: ‘Dumb Martian’
Patrick O’Brian: ‘Samphire’
Jan Mark: ‘Feet’
Doris Lessing: ‘A Woman on a Roof’
Cyprian Ekwensi: ‘A Stranger from Lagos’
Dorothy M. Johnson: ‘A Man Called Horse’
Roald Dahl: ‘The Hitch-hiker’
Liam O’Flaherty: ‘The Sniper’
Doris Lessing: ‘Flight’
Frank O’Connor: ‘My Oedipus Complex’
APPENDIX C: RESOURCES
SET TEXTS
For the list of set texts see above.
Unless otherwise indicated, students may use any edition of the set text, provided it is not an abridgement or simplified version. CIE recognises that there are many editions available, and that students and teachers will find newer editions with a range of notes (sometimes displayed on facing pages), illustrations, activities and further resources particularly helpful and user friendly.
Any of these texts may be taken into the examination room for Paper 1 (Open Books), but they
may not contain any annotation by the candidate. The edition of Shakespeare used for setting extract questions on examination papers is Peter Alexander: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Collins). However, this complete standard one volume edition is not recommended for classroom study of individual plays on the syllabus because of its small type face and minimal notes.
Some examples of reliable and useful series:
Cambridge School Shakespeare series edited R Gibson
Cambridge Literature series edited J Baxter (includes classics of poetry, prose and drama)
Penguin Shakespeare Penguin
Oxford School Shakespeare Oxford University Press
Heinemann Shakespeare Heinemann
Longman School Shakespeare Pearson – Longman (series editor John O’Connor) (useful for candidates with a second language English background)
See the Resources List on the subject page on CIE’s website: www.cie.org.uk.
