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GCSE English Literature

Pearson Edexcel

Set texts are fixed for the lifetime of the qualification, so there is no withdrawal risk on this specification.

Component 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature

105 minutes · 80 marks · 50 per cent

Section A: Shakespeare (40 marks)

Choose one play, extract then theme elsewhere

Section B: Post-1914 British play or novel (40 marks)

Choose one text, then one essay of two

Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789

135 minutes · 80 marks · 50 per cent

Section A: 19th-century novel (40 marks)

Choose one novel, extract then whole text

Section B: Poetry since 1789 (40 marks)

One anthology collection, all 15 poems, plus compulsory unseen

Macbeth

1606 · Aspects of tragedy

From the specialist's desk

The knowledge organiser earns its place here: it holds 1606, read through aspects of tragedy, on one sheet built for self-quizzing. The scheme keeps returning to Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, so retrieval never drifts from what the paper rewards.

Who it turns on

Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo

Context we build in

Jacobean kingship and the divine right of kings
James I and the Daemonologie of 1597

Sample retrieval questions

Where do Macbeth and Banquo first meet the witches?
What does Lady Macbeth call on the spirits to do in Act 1 Scene 5?
Whose ghost appears at the banquet, and to whom?
What does the sleepwalking scene reveal about Lady Macbeth?

Is this a dagger which I see before me2.1

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