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Section A Extracts 2011-12

WARNING: THIS PAGE HAS NOT YET BEEN UPDATED FOR 2012-3


There will be five extracts in the May 2012 exam.

1 will be from one of Shakespeare's Roman Plays (one of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Coriolanus)

1 will be from one of Shakespeare's Comedies (one of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, As You Like It or Twelfth Night)

1 will be from one of Shakespeare's Tragedies (one of Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello or King Lear)

1 will be from a play by Christopher Marlowe (one of Dr Faustus, Jew of Malta or Edward II)

1 will be from a play by Ben Jonson (either Bartholomew Fair or Epicoene)

Each extract will be between 80 and 100 lines in length.