English Literature A-Level
Poverty and social injustice
What Poverty and social injustice means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Poverty and social injustice
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The shepherds' opening complaints about oppressive lords and bad weather, grounding the biblical narrative in contemporary 15th-century Yorkshire.
Topics that use Poverty and social injustice
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Medieval Period – English Mystery Plays: A Selection, editor Peter Happé (Penguin Classics, 1975) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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