Universität Passau

Lehrstuhl für Englische Literatur und Kultur

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kamm

Mündliche Staatsexamensprüfung in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft

1. Renaissance: William Shakespeare

 The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

 The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
 The Tragedy of Macbeth

2. Gothic Fiction

 Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
 Bram Stoker, Dracula
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
 Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

3. Victorianism: Poetic Works

 Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”

 Alfred Lord Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”
 Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
 Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
 Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

4. Short Story: Edgar Allan Poe

 The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Fall of the House of Usher
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 The Masque of the Red Death
 The Black Cat