English Literature AS Level - help!

Hi,

I found myself in this position when I started my AS Level last year, I had similar things to research and I looked for quite a while and found it quite hard to find anything on it so don't worry your not the first to be in this position

There's a really good book produced for the whole AS course by Nelson Thornes (which will come into use for the Aspect of Narratives Exam of the course) about half the book is about the Dramatic Comedy Coursework unit which covers the conventions of the genre, the history of it, its structure etc. as well as lots of stuff on Shakespeare (which I presume you probably know one of your texts will be one of his comedies) and the different types of comedy there is. I found it invaluable for the whole course but it was really good when doing the initial research about Comedy and it sounds like it will cover the majority if not all of the things you are looking for.


In terms of stuff on the internet, I used this video to take some notes about Shakespeare comedy, it goes over the general conventions of his comedies, which will fit into the conventions bit of your task as well as techniques/kinds of comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZrprhnkaLM

I hope this helps in some way