National Theatre: King Lear (2014) with Simon Russell Beale – YouTube

William Shakespeare: The Life and Times Of (FULL MOVIE) (youtube.com)

Fiction

Suggested pre-1900 texts:

• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
• A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake)
• Goblin Market (Christina Rosetti)
• Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
• North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
• Hope is The Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson collection)
• The Prelude (William Wordsworth)
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louise Stevenson)
• The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)

• In Our Time – The Great Gatsby – BBC Sounds
• Bookclub – Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner – BBC Sounds
• Video & Audio: “William Blake” (cam.ac.uk)
• BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• King Lear | University of Oxford Podcasts
• William Blake | University of Oxford Podcasts
• Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of a World Drama: A Book At Lunchtime | University of Oxford Podcasts
• Fitzgerald beyond Gatsby | University of Oxford Podcasts
• Richard II | University of Oxford Podcasts
• 39 of the best literary and book podcasts for book lovers (penguin.co.uk)

Suggested post-1900 texts:

• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
• Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
• Regeneration (Pat Barker)
• The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
• Room (Emma Donoghue)
• Purple Hibiscus (Chimamnda Adichie)
• Post-Colonial/ Bildungsroman
• Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
• The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
• Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Daljit Nagra)
• Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• Wise Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
• England, England (Julian Barnes)
• The Sense of An Ending (Julian Barnes)
• The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)
• A Visit From The Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
• Beloved (Toni Morrison)
• Passing (Nella Larsen)
• NW (Zadie Smith)
• Autumn (Ali Smith)
• Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
• The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
• Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth)
• 1984 (George Orwell)
• Brave New World (Audlous Huxley)
• The World’s Wives (Carol Ann Duffy)
• Sylvia Plath Selected Poems (Plath, compiled by Ted Hughes)
• Ted Hughes Selected Poems (Hughes, compiled by Simon Armitage)

• Best in English – A unique online English language competition
• Gould prize for essays in English Literature – Trinity College Cambridge

• The 30 Best Dystopian Novels Everyone Should Read | Reedsy Discovery
• Attend a subject masterclass on English Literature from a university of your choice

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• MASSOLIT – Short video lectures from the world’s best academics
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• Subscribe to Audible
• Subscribe to TLS | Times Literary Supplement (the-tls.co.uk)

Secondary Reading

• Research new works of fiction The Best Fiction | Five Books Expert Recommendations
• Create an account to JSTOR Home and read up to 99 journals a month
• 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, James Shapiro
• This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
• Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066
• Tragedy and the Common Man (nytimes.com)
• “King Lear”, William Shakespeare (Critical Essays S.)

• RSC Stratford Upon Avon
• Welcome to Shakespeare’s Globe | London (shakespearesglobe.com)
• Plan Your Visit (shakespeare.org.uk)