This printable Shakespeare article gives A-Level or AS-Level students to gain a wider and more detailed understanding of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Can be printed out and read in class, or given to students as a supplementary resource. The strategy of this Bookmark is to essay an exegesis of Twelfth Night by means of five inter-related character-studies: although they cannot help but appear in a particular order, these studies need not be read in that order. Feste, Malvolio, Orsino, Viola and Olivia

Close analysis of 26 poems by Thomas Hardy

An interesting article that you could print for your class, and either read together or assign as a reading homework, concerning many of the key quotations from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespere. 'All that glitters in a naughty world'. It is something of a tribute to The Merchant of Venice that quotations from this play have found their way into so much of our common culture - even Willy Wonka misquotes Portia&'s famous &';so shines a good deed in a naughty world'.

Ian Brinton discusses David Almond's Skellig in a pamphlet designed to supplement the enthusiasm of the teacher in the primary classroom

This Bookmark aims to show that Carol Ann Duffy owes both her stature as a modern poet and her deserved popularity to her repeatedly tender treatment of the theme of loss. Behind her major poems seems to lie a conviction that human life promises little and delivers less;

A close analaysis of some of Emily Dickinson's poems

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves An analysis of the varying ways in which the First world War poets expressed the experience of war, illustrating the varieties of public and private expression.

A brief pamphlet aimed to supplement the enthusiasm of the teacher in the primary classroom. This Bookmark concentrates on the author, text, characters and use of language

Andrew Swarbrick examines the life and works of Philip Larkin

in about 3000 words covers Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, Jude the Obscure to show something of the range and greatness of Victorian fiction

Some distinctive features of biography and autobiographies and some of their subcategories. Some problems faced by authors who write them which may also shed light when reading them. Michael White and John Gribbin: Stephen Hawking, a Life in Science; Mary Cadogan, The Woman Behind William: a Life of Richmal Crompton; Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The aim of this Bookmark is to give some account of how Dickens’s second novel developed from the farcical world of the Mudfog Papers to become one of the most haunting and memorable pictures of the London underworld.

The aim of this first Dickens Bookmark is to give an account of the first and most popular of Dickens’s five Christmas Books, its central themes of selfishness and greed which find one their most menacing representations in the figures of the two children, ‘wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable’ who lurk beneath folds of the robes of Christmas Present. The Bookmark will also explore the way in which this short story reflects Dickens’s growing concern for dwelling upon his own autobiography and, in this sense, examines his concern for the lost childhood.

Caryl Churchill, Top Girls; Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Edward Bond, Save The wealth of mainstream, alternative and fringe theatre embracing a range of social, political and aesthetic concerns which have emerged over the past 30 years is to testify to both the health of and, it might be said, the crisis within culture and community in Britain since the 1950s.

In November 1862, a one-volume edition was published containing a revision of the last line of the novel and this change became accepted for many later editions. The first section of this Bookmark presents a piece of close textual analysis from the opening of the novel and the second section looks at the variant endings with which Dickens was dealing.

Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley. Designed to show the importance of Ireland as a place where good poetry originates, suggest some of the ways three poets from Belfast make poetry out of their experiences and consider how particular poets can help represent these poets as a whole

A consideration of 3 novels by Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles - of critical reaction to them and of the importance int hem of his concern for animals.

Small pamphlets (c. 3000 words) on Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Dombey & Son, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Great Expectations, Martin Chuzzlewit, Edwin Drood, Barnaby Rudge

A brief explanation of linguistics and its apparent conflict with literary studies, followed by an indication of how stylistics may resolve the problem, taking three introductory texts by way of illustration. K. Wales - Dictionary of Stylistics; N.F. Blake, An Introduction to the Language of Literature; Leech & Short, Style in Fiction: a Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

Margaret Mallett explores the lyrical nature of non-fiction texts using Think of an Eel by Karen Wallace and Mike Bostock - an illustrated account of the eel's life cycle providing much information in words and pictures with considerable imaginative insight

Bleak House is an immense novel: a sweeping critique of Victorian society; a murder mystery and detective story; a sentimental ‘happy ending’ for an illegitimate and unwanted child. Uniquely, the story unfolds through two discrete narrators – a radical and experimental form which creates challenging, often darkly ironic effects. This discussion will explore the motif of mystery that is central to this text, Dickens’s portrayal of contemporary London, and the significance of Esther Summerson.