GRE Literature in English Subject Test

Literary Criticism

  • Aristotle
  • Poetics
  • Arnold
  • “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,”
  • “Sweetness and Light”
  • Auerbach
  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
  • Bloom
  • The Anxiety of Influence(Review 1)(Review 2)
  • Booth
  • The Rhetoric of Fiction(Review 1)(Review 2)
  • Brooks (Cleanth)
  • Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays
  • Campbell
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces
  • Coleridge
  • Biographia Literaria
  • Culler
  • Literary Theory, a Very Short Introduction
  • Eagleton
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction
  • Eliot
  • “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
  • “Hamlet and His Problems,”
  • Forster
  • Aspects of the Novel
  • Frye
  • The Anatomy of Criticism
  • Harland
  • Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes
  • James
  • The Art of Fiction
  • Joseph
  • Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction
  • Lacan
  • “The Mirror Stage in the Formation of the I” in Ecrits(Summary)
  • Lamb
  • “Letter to Wordsworth”
  • Leavis
  • Meredith
  • Essay on Comedy
  • Mill
  • “What is Poetry?”
  • Orwell
  • “Politics and the English Language”
  • Pater
  • The Renaissance
  • Pope
  • An Essay on Criticism
  • Pound
  • “A Retrospect,”
  • Ransom
  • The New Criticism (Biography) (Excerpt)
  • Rivkin
  • Literary Theory: An Anthology
  • Richards (I. A.)
  • How to Read a Page
  • Principals of Literary Criticism
  • Ruskin
  • “Of the Pathetic Fallacy”
  • Said
  • Orientalism
  • Saussure
  • Course in General Linguistics
  • Shlovsky
  • Theory of Prose
  • Sidney
  • An Apology for Poetry or The Defense of Poetry(Lecture Notes) (Further Notes)
  • Shelley
  • A Defense of Poetry
  • Tolstoy
  • What is Art? (Outline)
  • Widdowson-
  • A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary TheoryPN 94 S45 1993
  • Woolf
  • A Room of One’s Own
  • Be familiar with these terms:
  • Lancanian Criticism, Marxist Criticism, New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Black Criticism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Freudian Criticism, Archetype or Myth Criticism, Linguistic Criticism, Formalist Criticism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Reader-Response Criticism Great web resource for an overview

Poetry

  • Arnold(Biography)
  • “Dover Beach,”
  • Appolonius of Rhodes(Overview)
  • The Voyage of Argo (Essay)
  • Auden(Biography) (A collection some of his best known poems, including Friday’s Child)
  • “As I Walked Out One Evening,”
  • “Epitaph on a Tyrant,”
  • “First Things First,”
  • “Friday’s Child,”
  • “In Memory of Sigmund Freud,”
  • “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,”
  • “Lullaby,”
  • “September 1, 1939,”
  • “The Fall of Rome,”
  • “The Shield of Achilles,”
  • “Musee des Beaux Arts,”
  • “The Unknown Citizen”
  • Beowulf(Alternative Resource) (Further References) (Old English Lessons)
  • Bishop
  • “The Moose,”
  • “Sestina,”
  • “One Art”
  • Blake (Biography)
  • Songs of InnocenceAnd Experience,
  • “The Tyger,”
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion,
  • “The Lamb,”
  • “London”
  • Brooks (Biography)
  • “We Real Cool” (Interview about the poem) (NEH Page)
  • Browning, E (Biography)
  • “Aurora Leigh,” (Criticism) (Study Guide)
  • “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
  • Browning, R.
  • “Caliban upon Setebos”(commentary)
  • “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” (Commentary)
  • “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,”
  • “Evelyn Hope,”
  • “The Pied Piper of Hammelin,”
  • “A Grammarian’s Funeral,”
  • “A Death in the Desert,”
  • “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,”
  • “Fra Lippo Lippi,”
  • “My Last Duchess,”
  • Burns (Bio)
  • “A Red Red Rose,”
  • “Tam O’ Shanter,”
  • “To a Louse,”
  • “To a Mouse,”
  • “Holly Willie’s Prayer”
  • Butler(Bio) (More bio)
  • “Hudibras”
  • Byron
  • “She Walks in Beauty,” (analysis)
  • “When We Two Parted,” (analysis)
  • “So We’ll Go No More a Roving,”
  • “ChildeHarold’s Pilgrimage
  • “Don Juan”
  • “Manfred”
  • Caedmon
  • “Caedmon’s Hymn”
  • Carew
  • “AnElegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”
  • Carrol
  • Alice in Wonderland,
  • Jabberwocky
  • Chaucer(Resource for Middle English Works)
  • The Canterbury Tales,
  • Troylus and Criseyde
  • Coleridge
  • “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
  • “Kubla Khan”
  • Cowper (Bio) (Bio 2)
  • Olney Hymns,
  • John Gilpin,
  • The Task
  • Cullen
  • “Heritage,”
  • “From the Dark Tower”
  • Cummings
  • “In Just-,”
  • “Buffalo Bill,”
  • “The Cambridge Ladies,”
  • “My father mover through dooms of love”
  • Dante
  • Divine Comedy–Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
  • Dickenson
  • “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and others
  • Donne- Notes
  • “The Sun Rising,”
  • “The Flea,”
  • “Holy Sonnet 14,”
  • “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,”
  • “Death not be Proud,”
  • “Batter My Heart,”
  • “On Going to Bed”
  • Dryden
  • Absalom and Achitophel,
  • Mac Flecknoe,
  • All For Love,
  • “Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew” (Notes)
  • Eliot
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”
  • The Waste Land,
  • “The Hollow Men,”
  • “Ash Wednesday,”
  • “The Four Quartets,”
  • Frost
  • “Design,”
  • “After Apple Picking,”
  • “Mending Wall,”
  • “Home Burial,”
  • “The Road Not Taken”
  • Ginsburg
  • “Howl”
  • Goldsmith
  • The Deserted Village
  • Gray
  • “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,”
  • “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat,Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes”
  • Hardy
  • Wessex Poems
  • “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?,”
  • “Hap,”
  • “Neutral Tones”
  • Herbert
  • “The Alter,”
  • “Easter Wings,”
  • “The Pulley”
  • Herrick
  • “Upon Julia’s Breasts,”
  • “Upon Julia’s Clothes,”
  • “The Night Piece, to Julia,”
  • “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
  • Homer
  • Iliad
  • Odyssey
  • Hopkins
  • “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,”
  • “Carrion Comfort,”
  • “God’s Grandeur,”
  • “Peace,”
  • “Pied Beauty,”
  • “Spring,”
  • “Spring and Fall,”
  • “The Windhover”
  • “Thou Indeed Just Lord, if I Contend”
  • Housman
  • “The Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now,”
  • “To an Athlete Dying Young,”
  • “When I Was One-and-Twenty,”
  • “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”
  • Hughes(Bio and poem collection)
  • “Harlem,”
  • “Theme for English B.”
  • Johnson
  • “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
  • Johnson, J.W. (Bio and poem collection)
  • Jonson
  • “To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare”
  • “To the Reader,”
  • “Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue,”
  • “On My First Son,”
  • “Perfection in Small Things”
  • Keats
  • Endymion,
  • “The Eve of St. Agnes,”
  • Isabella,
  • “La Belle Dame sans Merci,”
  • “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”
  • “Ode on Melancholy,”
  • “Ode to a Nightingale,”
  • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
  • Langland
  • “Piers Plowman”
  • Longfellow
  • “The Song of Hiawatha”
  • Lowell
  • “For the Union Dead,”
  • “Mr. Edwards and the Spider,”
  • “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”
  • Macaulay
  • “Ivry,”
  • “The Armada,”
  • “Horatius”
  • MacLeish
  • “Ars Poetica”
  • Marlowe
  • “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
  • Marvell
  • “To His Coy Mistress”
  • Meredith
  • Lucifer in Starlight
  • Milton
  • Paradise Lost, (notes)
  • Paradise Regained,
  • Lycidas,
  • Areopagitica,
  • Samson Agonistes
  • Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness
  • Owen
  • “Dulche et Decorum est”
  • Plath
  • “Daddy,”
  • “Lady Lazarus”
  • Poe
  • “Annabel Lee,”
  • “The Raven,”
  • Pope
  • The Rape of the Lock,
  • The Dunciad
  • Pound
  • “In a Station of the Metro,”
  • “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly,”
  • “Canto I,”
  • “The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter.”
  • Raleigh
  • “The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself,”
  • “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,”
  • “Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son”
  • Ransom
  • “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter,”
  • “Janet Waking,”
  • “Piazza Piece”
  • Roethke
  • “Root Cellar,”
  • “My Papa’s Waltz”
  • Rossetti
  • “The Blessed Damozel”
  • Sandburg
  • “Chicago,”
  • “Fog”
  • “The Seafarer”
  • Shakespeare Sonnets
  • 18,
  • 29,
  • 30,
  • 55,
  • 73,
  • 116,
  • 130
  • Shelley
  • “Ozymandias,”
  • “Ode to the West Wind,”
  • “To a Skylark,”
  • “The Masque of Anarchy,”
  • “Queen Mab,”
  • “Alastor,”
  • “The Revolt of Islam,”
  • “Adonais,”
  • “The Triumph of Life,”
  • “Monte Blanc,”
  • Sidney
  • Astrophel and Stella,
  • The Arcadia
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Skelton
  • “An Elegy on the Death of Henry Percy, Fourth Earl of Northumberland,”
  • “Upon a Dead Man’s Head,”
  • “Womanhood…”
  • Spenser
  • The Faerie Queen,
  • Epithalamion,
  • Sonnets #30,
  • Sonnets #68,
  • Shepheardes Calendar
  • Stevens
  • “Sunday Morning,”
  • “The Emperor of Ice Cream,”
  • “Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird,”
  • “Anecdote of the Jar,”
  • “The Snow Man”
  • “Of Mere Being”
  • Surrey
  • “When Raging Love,”
  • “So Cruel Prison”
  • Swinburne
  • Poems and Ballads
  • Tennyson
  • “Ulysses,”
  • “In Memoriam A.H.H.,”
  • “In the Valley of Cauteretz,”
  • “Break, Break, Break,”
  • “The Charge of the Light Brigade,”
  • “Tears, Idle Tears,”
  • “Crossing the Bar,”
  • “Idylls of the King,”
  • “Tithonus”
  • “The Lady of Shalott,”
  • “The Lotus-Eaters,”
  • “Mariana”
  • Thomas
  • “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,”
  • “Fern Hill”
  • Virgil
  • Aenid,
  • Bucolics
  • Warren
  • “Blow West Wind”
  • Wheatley
  • “On Being Brought from Africa to America,”
  • “To the University of Cambridge in New England”
  • Whitman
  • “Song of Myself,”
  • Leaves of Grass,
  • “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,”
  • “O Captain, My Captain”
  • “Pioneers! O, Pioneers!,”
  • “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
  • “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
  • Wilde
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol,
  • Williams, W. C.
  • “The Red Wheelbarrow,”
  • “The Young Housewife,” (Commentary)
  • “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” (excerpt)
  • “This is Just to Say”
  • Wordsworth
  • “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,”
  • “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,”
  • “Three Years She Grew,”
  • “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,”
  • “I Traveled Among Unknown Men”
  • “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,”
  • Lyrical Ballads
  • Wyatt
  • “They Flee from Me,”
  • “Whoso List to Hunt,”
  • “If Thou Wilt Mighty Be” (scroll down)
  • Yeats
  • “The Second Coming,”
  • “The Isle of Statues,”
  • “The Wanderings of Oisin,”
  • “Crazy Jane and the Bishop,”
  • “The Dolls,”
  • “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,”
  • “Leda and the Swan,”
  • “Sailing to Byzantium,”
  • “When You Are Old,”
  • “The Wild Swans at Coole,”
  • “Among School Children,”
  • “The Circus Animals Desertion,”
  • “Lapis Lazuli,”
  • “Adam’s Curse,”
  • “Dialog of Self and Soul”

Be familiar with poetic terms.

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Fiction

  • Achebe
  • Things Fall Apart (Lecture Notes)
  • Alcott
  • Little Women
  • Amis
  • Lucky Jim
  • Atwood
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility,
  • Pride and Prejudice,
  • Mansfield Park,
  • Emma,
  • Northanger Abbey,
  • Persuasion
  • Baldwin
  • Go Tell it On the Mountain,
  • Notes of a Native Son
  • Barth
  • Lost in the Funhouse
  • Bellow
  • Seize the Day,
  • Henderson the Rain King,
  • The Adventures of Augie March,
  • Humboldt’s Gift
  • Boccaccio
  • Decameron
  • Borges
  • Labyrinths
  • Bronte
  • Jane Eyre
  • Bronte
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Bunyan
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Butler
  • The Way of All Flesh,
  • Erewhon
  • Byatt
  • Possession
  • Calvino
  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
  • Camus
  • The Stranger,
  • The Plague,
  • The Fall
  • Carlyle
  • Sartor Resartus
  • Cather
  • My Antonia
  • O Pioneers!
  • Cervantes
  • Don Quixote
  • Chopin
  • The Awakening,
  • “The Story of an Hour”
  • Conrad
  • Heart of Darkness,
  • Lord Jim,
  • The Secret Agent
  • “The Secret Sharer“
  • Cooper
  • The Last of the Mohicans,
  • Deerslayer
  • Cortazar
  • Hopscotch
  • Crane
  • Red Badge of Courage,
  • “The Open Boat,”
  • Maggie
  • Defoe
  • Robinson Crusoe,
  • Moll Flanders,
  • A Journey Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
  • Delillo
  • White Noise
  • Dickens
  • Oliver Twist,
  • Great Expectations,
  • Tale of Two Cities,
  • Bleak House,
  • David Copperfield,
  • Hard Times
  • Dos Pasos
  • Manhattan Transfer,
  • U.S.A. Trilogy
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Crime and Punishment,
  • Notes from the Underground,
  • Brothers Karamazov
  • Drieser
  • Sister Carrie
  • Eliot
  • Silas Marner,
  • Middlemarch,
  • Adam Bede
  • Ellison
  • Invisible Man
  • Faulkner
  • The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying,
  • Absalom, Absalom!,
  • Go Down Moses,
  • “The Bear,”
  • “A Rose for Emily,”
  • Light in August
  • Fielding
  • Tom Jones,
  • Joseph Andrews
  • Fitzgerald
  • The Great Gatsby,
  • Tender is the Night,
  • “Babylon Revisited”
  • Flaubert
  • Madam Bovary
  • Forster
  • A Room with a View,
  • Howard’s End,
  • Passage to India
  • Gilman
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper”
  • Gogol
  • “The Overcoat,”
  • “The Nose”
  • Goldsmith
  • The Vicar of Wakefield,
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • Hardy
  • Return of the Native,
  • Tess of the d’Ubervilles,
  • Far from the Maddening Crowd,
  • Jude the Obscure,
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Hawthorne
  • The Scarlet Letter,
  • The Blithedale Romance,
  • The House of Seven Gables
  • “The Minister’s Black Veil,”
  • “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,”
  • “Young Goodman Brown,”
  • “Rappancinni’s Daughter,”
  • “The Birthmark”
  • Heller
  • Catch 22
  • Hemingway
  • The Sun Also Rises,
  • Old Man and the Sea,
  • Farewell to Arms,
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls,
  • A Moveable Feast,
  • In Our Time,
  • “Hills Like White Elephants,”
  • “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,”
  • “The Killers,”
  • “A Clean Well Lighted Place”
  • Hesse
  • Siddartha
  • Howells
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham
  • Hurston
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Huxley
  • Brave New World
  • Irving
  • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”
  • “Rip Van Winkle”
  • The Sketch Book
  • James
  • Portrait of a Lady,
  • Daisy Miller,
  • The American,
  • Wings of a Dove,
  • The Ambassadors
  • “The Real Thing,”
  • The Turn of the Screw,
  • The Beast in the Jungle,
  • The Golden Bowl
  • Johnson
  • Rasselas
  • Jonson
  • The Alchemist
  • Volpone
  • Joyce
  • Ulysses,
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
  • Dubliners
  • “The Dead”,
  • Finnegans Wake
  • Kafka
  • The Trial,
  • Metamorphosis,
  • “A Hunger Artist”
  • Kerouac
  • On the Road
  • Kipling
  • Kim
  • Lawrence
  • Sons and Lovers,
  • The Trespasser,
  • The Rainbow,
  • Women in Love,
  • “The Rocking Horse Winner”
  • Lewis
  • The Monk
  • London
  • “To Build a Fire”
  • Lyly
  • Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit
  • Malory
  • Le Mort D’Arthur
  • Mansfield
  • “The Garden Party,”
  • “Bliss”
  • Marlowe
  • Dr. Faustus
  • Marquez
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Melville
  • Moby-Dick
  • Billy Budd,
  • “Bartleby the Scrivener”
  • “Benito Cereno”
  • Meredith
  • The Egoist
  • Morison
  • Song of Solomon
  • Beloved
  • Nabkov
  • Lolita
  • Naipaul
  • The Mystic Masseur,
  • A House for Mr. Biswas
  • O’Conner, Fl.
  • “A Good Man is Hard to Find,”
  • “Revelation,”
  • “Everything that Rises Must Converge,”
  • “The Life You Save May be Your Own,”
  • “Good Country People”
  • O’Conner, FR.
  • “Guests of the Nation”
  • Orwell
  • 1984,
  • Animal Farm
  • Peacock
  • Nightmare Abbey
  • Plath
  • The Bell Jar
  • Poe
  • “The Murders on the Rue Morgue,”
  • “The Purloined Letter,”
  • “Tell Tale Heart,”
  • “Fall of the House of Usher”
  • Proust
  • Swann’s Way
  • Sodom and Gomorrah,
  • Remembrance of Things Past
  • Pynchon
  • The Crying of Lot 49,
  • Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Radcliff
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Richardson
  • Pamela,
  • Clarissa
  • Salinger
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Sartre
  • Nausea
  • Scott
  • Ivanhoe
  • Shelly
  • Frankenstein
  • Sinclair
  • The Jungle
  • Singer
  • “Gimpel the Fool”
  • Stein
  • Three Lives,
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  • Steinbeck
  • Of Mice and Men,
  • The Grapes of Wrath,
  • East of Eden
  • Sterne
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
  • Stevenson
  • Kidnapped,
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Stowe
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Swift
  • Gulliver’s Travels,
  • “A Modest Proposal”
  • Stoker
  • Dracula
  • Thackeray
  • Vanity Fair
  • Thurber
  • “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
  • Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina,
  • The Death of Ivan Ilych,
  • War and Peace
  • Toomer
  • Cane
  • Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,
  • The Mysterious Stranger,
  • Innocence Abroad,
  • The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
  • Voltaire
  • Candide
  • Vonnegut
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Walker
  • The Color Purple
  • “Everyday Use”
  • Walpole
  • The Castle of Otranto
  • Warren
  • All the Kings Men
  • Welty
  • Delta Wedding,
  • “Why I Live at the P0”
  • Wharton
  • House of Mirth,
  • Ethan Frome,
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Wilde
  • The Critic as Artist,
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Woolf
  • Mrs. Dalloway,
  • To the Lighthouse
  • Wright
  • Native Son,
  • Black Boy

Prose Terminology to be familiar with:

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Drama

  • Aeschylus
  • The Libation Bearers
  • Oresteia,
  • Prometheus Bound
  • Seven Against Thebes
  • Aristophanes
  • Lysistrata, (Movie The Girls deals with this play;)
  • Clouds
  • Baraka
  • The Dutchman
  • Becket(Becket’s Plays available to watch on Becket on Flim)
  • Waiting for Godot, Part I Part II
  • Endgame
  • Brecht
  • Mother Courage,
  • The Threepenny Opera
  • Chekov
  • The Cherry Orchard,
  • The Darling
  • Congreve
  • The Way of the World,
  • The Mourning Bride
  • Love for Love
  • Eliot
  • Murder in the Cathedral
  • Etherege
  • The Man of Mode,
  • The Comical Revenge
  • Euripides
  • The Trojan Women,
  • The Bacchae,
  • Medea,
  • Iphigenia at Aulis(Available on Netflix as Instant and on DVD)
  • Everyman
  • Goethe
  • Faust,
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Goldsmith
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • Ibson
  • A Doll’s House,
  • Hedda Gabler,
  • The Master Builder
  • The Wild Duck
  • Ionesco
  • The Lesson,
  • Rhinoceros
  • Kyd
  • The Spanish Tragedy
  • MacLeish
  • J.B.
  • Marlowe
  • Tamburlaine,
  • Miller
  • The Crucible,
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Milton
  • Comus or A Mask, Presented at Ludlow Castle
  • Moliere
  • The School for Wives,
  • Tartuffe
  • Mon’zaemon
  • The Love Suicides of Amijima
  • Pinter
  • The Caretaker,
  • The Homecoming
  • O’Neill
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night
  • Mourning Becomes Electra,
  • Desire Under the Elms,
  • The Hairy Ape,
  • The Ice-man Cometh
  • Plautus
  • The Menaechmus Twins
  • Sartre
  • No Exit,
  • The Flies
  • Second Shepherd’s Play
  • Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet,
  • Hamlet,
  • Macbeth
  • Othello,
  • Taming of the Shrew,
  • The Tempest,
  • The Merchant of Venice,
  • The Winter’s Tale,
  • Cymbeline,
  • Pericles,
  • Richard II,
  • Richard III,
  • Henry IV,
  • Henry V,
  • King Lear,
  • Antony and Cleopatra,
  • As You Like It,
  • Comedy of Errors,
  • Julius Caesar,
  • Twelfth Night
  • Shaw
  • Arms and the Man,
  • A Dramatic Realist to His Critics,
  • Major Barbara,
  • Pygmalion
  • Shelley
  • “Prometheus Unbound”
  • Cenci
  • Sheridan
  • The School for Scandal,
  • The Rivals
  • Sophocles
  • Antigone,
  • Oedipus the King
  • Stoppard
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
  • Strindberg
  • Miss Julie
  • Synge
  • The Playboy of the Western World
  • Webster
  • The White Devil,
  • The Duchess of Malfi
  • Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest,
  • Williams
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
  • The Glass Menagerie,
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Wycherley
  • The Country Wife

Dramatic Terminology to be Familiar With:

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Non-Fiction

  • Adams
  • The Education of Henry Adams
  • Angelou
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(Study Guide)
  • Aristotle
  • Rhetoric,
  • Nichomachean Ethics
  • Arnold
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Behn
  • Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
  • The Bible (esp. Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, Job, Daniel, Jonah, Gospel)
  • Boswell
  • The Life of Johnson
  • Burke
  • Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies
  • Burton
  • Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Byrd
  • The History of the Dividing Line
  • Camus
  • “The Myth of Sisyphus”
  • Declaration of Independence
  • De Quincy
  • “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”
  • Douglass
  • The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglass
  • Edwards
  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
  • Emerson
  • Essays I, II,
  • Nature,
  • Self-Reliance,
  • “The American Scholar,”
  • “The Poet,”
  • “The Divinity School Address,”
  • Foxe
  • The Acts and Monuments
  • Deaths of Latimer