Research Tasks
1. Read the interview with Terry Eagleton and answer the following questions in detail.
(a) What, according to Eagleton, is the role of literary theory when analysing texts?
(b) What does Eagleton believe makes a good English student?
2. Read this article from the British Library and answer the following questions.
(a) When Keats’ admirers praised him for thinking ‘on his pulses’, what did they mean?
(b) When did Keats die?
(c) In which year did the first biography of Keats appear?
(d) Where did Keats originally train before giving it up for poetry?
(e) Which two social upheavals influenced Romantic poets like Keats?
3. Read this article from the British Library and then summarise, in your own words, what makes a Shakespearean tragedy.
4. Read the article from emagazine below, and then writer half a page in response to the following statement: ‘Simon Bubb argues that Iago’s lack of humanity is what Shakespeare is most interested in sharing.’ To what extent do you agree?
5. Read the task sheet titled The Canon (link below). For each of the authors listed, write the title of at least one of their works and the genre.
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