Audience reception
What Audience reception means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
How readers in different periods may respond from different cultural assumptions, including how modern readers might interpret a poem differently from its original audience.
How contemporary audiences would have reacted compared to modern readers, based on their cultural norms and differing cultural contexts.
Historical audience reactions that, alongside academic viewpoints, inform interpretations of a literary work.
The ways in which the chosen play is or has been interpreted by different audiences, including over time.
Topics that use Audience reception
- 3b. Assessment objectives (AO) (OCR A-Level)
- Drama and poetry pre-1900 (Component 01) - Section 1 set texts: Shakespeare (OCR A-Level)
- Drama and poetry pre-1900 (Component 01) - Section 2 set texts: Drama and poetry pre-1900 (OCR A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Critical reception
- Critical theory
- Form and structure
- Historical context
- Linguistic analysis
- Literary movements
- Thematic exploration
- Thematic links
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