Coursework Set Texts
You are required independently to study one text from each list below from the list
choosing one fiction and one non-fiction as inspiration for your style. In addition you will
write a commentary exploring the ways in which they constructed their work and how it
relates to the stimulus texts concerned. A detailed guide will be available to you later in the
term. This list will allow you to focus your choices and preferences.
List 1: Fiction
Monologue
The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
Talking Heads – Alan Bennett
Drama
Translations – Brian Friel
The Birthday Party – Harold Pinter
Pass Over, Antoinette Nwandu, Kiln (2020)
Nine Night, Natasha Gordon, National Theatre and Trafalgar Studios (2018)
Girls & Boys, Dennis Kelly, Royal Court (2018)
Dance Nation, Clare Barron, Almeida (2018)
Prose Fiction
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson published in 1985
The Color Purple – Alice Walker published in 1982
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison published in 1970
Spies – Michael Frayn published in 2002
High Rise – JG Ballard published 1975
Americanah by Chimamanda Nigozi Adichie published in 2013
On Beauty by Zadie Smith published in 2005
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin published in 2009
The Human Stain by Philip Roth published in 2003
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published in 2003
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood published in 1985
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood published in 2019
Revolutionary Road by Riachard Yates published in 1961
Wise Children by Angela Carter publish in 1991
List 2: Non-Fiction
You are required independently to study one text from each list below from the list
choosing one fiction and one non-fiction as inspiration for your style. In addition you will
write a commentary exploring the ways in which they constructed their work and how it
relates to the stimulus texts concerned. A detailed guide will be available to you later in the
term. This list will allow you to focus your choices and preferences.
List 1: Fiction
Monologue
The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
Talking Heads – Alan Bennett
Drama
Translations – Brian Friel
The Birthday Party – Harold Pinter
Pass Over, Antoinette Nwandu, Kiln (2020)
Nine Night, Natasha Gordon, National Theatre and Trafalgar Studios (2018)
Girls & Boys, Dennis Kelly, Royal Court (2018)
Dance Nation, Clare Barron, Almeida (2018)
Prose Fiction
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson published in 1985
The Color Purple – Alice Walker published in 1982
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison published in 1970
Spies – Michael Frayn published in 2002
High Rise – JG Ballard published 1975
Americanah by Chimamanda Nigozi Adichie published in 2013
On Beauty by Zadie Smith published in 2005
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin published in 2009
The Human Stain by Philip Roth published in 2003
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published in 2003
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood published in 1985
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood published in 2019
Revolutionary Road by Riachard Yates published in 1961
Wise Children by Angela Carter publish in 1991
List 2: Non-Fiction
