Scene Category: Literacy

Dracula, the Gothic novel, was written by Bram Stoker in London England between the years of 1891-1897. Written as an epistolary novel, the narrative is…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by Washington Irving in 1819. The story is a part of a collection of essays and short stories…

Only the second novel written by Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist paints a grim and unromantic picture of mid-19th century London. The story tells the tale…

Great Expectations was the thirteenth novel written by Charles Dickens and his penultimate. However, only the second to be fully narrated in the first person.…

A Tale of Two Cities weaves together a wide cast of characters in London and Paris. The story takes place in the years leading up…

The Highwayman is a poem written by Alfred Noyes and first published in 1906. This romantic and tragic tale tells us a story of love…

While the Monster created by Victor Frankenstein is iconic and instantly recognisable today, the novel by Mary Shelley tells a complex tale of unchecked scientific…

Written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a dark and…

The tale of Puss in Boots has been told for over 300 years, and so slightly different versions of this story can be heard around…

The play Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600s and takes the form of a revenge tragedy. In a revenge tragedy, the main character usually suffers a great wrong, often by…