Welcome to the website which cross references texts with their contexts.
Writers in context
- A-Z Glossary
- The world of Chaucer 1330-1400
- The world of Shakespeare and the Metaphysical poets 1540-1660
- The world of the Romantics 1770 - 1837
- The world of Victorian writers 1837 - 1901
Aspects of literature
- A-Z Glossary
- How poetry works
- Recognising poetic form
- Impact of the Bible
- Impact of classical literature
- Developments in language
- Developments in drama
- Critical approaches to literature
- Introduction to Augustan literature
- Aspects of the gothic
- Romanticism
- Features of Victorian literature
- Women and literature
Texts in detail
- Context links: Hard Times
- Context links: Hardy's Poetry
- Context links: Macbeth
- Context links: Othello
- Context links: The General Prologue
- Context links: The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Context links: The Nun's Priest's Tale
- Context links: The Return of the Native
- Context links: The Tempest
- Context links: Twelfth Night
- Context links: Wuthering Heights
- Context links: Selected poetry of the Brontės
- Context links: The Romantic poets
- Doctor Faustus
- Frankenstein
- Great Expectations
- Hamlet
- Jane Eyre
- Measure for Measure
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Winter's Tale
Successful study
- A-Z Glossary
- Tips for successful study
- Text specific downloadable worksheets
- Text specific further reading and resources