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Fresh thinking for English teachers, from the world's leading academics.

Expand your subject knowledge with 2,500+ lectures on English Literature from the world's best academics.

  • 2,500+ short video lectures, each one filmed exclusively for MASSOLIT
  • Aligned with GCSE, A Level and the IB specifications
  • Short, sharp insights, each lecture just 8 to 10 minutes long
  • Featuring academics from the best universities in the world, including Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton and Yale
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English Teacher, King's College School, Wimbledon

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Priestley: An Inspector Calls

Prof. John McRae · Nottingham University

15 lectures

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Shakespeare: Macbeth

Dr Fred Parker · University of Cambridge

5 lectures

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Othello: Recent Scholarship

Prof. Lisa Hopkins · Sheffield Hallam University

6 lectures

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Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

Prof. Michael Nowlin · University of Victoria

6 lectures

Featuring academics from 100+ of the world's best universities

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Princeton UniversityMITColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityThe University of ChicagoJohns Hopkins University
University of St AndrewsBrown UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaNYURutgers UniversityUC Davis
2,500+ videos from the world's best academics· Used by 125,000+ teachers worldwide· More than 2.5 million views

Why choose MASSOLIT

In-depth analysis of key texts and topics

Get more out of the texts you're teaching with expert insights from university academics.

Designed specifically for secondary school teachers

Short, knowledge-rich and perfectly pitched.

Get access to the latest research

Access the newest ideas in scholarship, from the scholars themselves.

What makes MASSOLIT better than YouTube?

You'll only ever see bona fide experts

Literally anyone can create a video on YouTube. Meanwhile every single lecture on MASSOLIT has been designed and delivered by a university academic - often the single best person in the world on that text or topic. Why trust some random YouTuber on Chaucer when you could be listening to the JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at Oxford University?

Designed for you

On YouTube, lectures will often be an hour long and designed for a totally different audience (often coughing and spluttering in the background). Videos on MASSOLIT have been built just for you and come in short, sharp chunks - just 8 to 10 minutes long each.

Consistency

YouTube is the biggest collection of video content ever created. That means videos come in all shapes and sizes. Some are great, but lots are terrible. Here at MASSOLIT we film and edit every video ourselves in person, meaning a consistency of quality that is unmatched on YouTube.

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Browse our English Literature collection

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Shakespeare: Othello

5 lectures

Dr Fred Parker
University of Cambridge

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Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

12 lectures

Prof. John McRae
Nottingham University

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Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale

10 lectures

Dr Madeleine Davies
Reading University

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Ibsen: A Doll's House

6 lectures

Dr Sophie Duncan
University of Oxford

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Shelley: Frankenstein

5 lectures

Prof. Nick Groom
Exeter University

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Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale

6 lectures

Prof. Marion Turner
University of Oxford

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Nottage: Sweat

6 lectures

Prof. Jaye Austin Williams
University of Southern California

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Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Recent Scholarship

6 lectures

Prof. Lisa Hopkins
Sheffield Hallam University

2,500+ videos arranged into 300+ courses, searchable by text, topic and exam specification.

What is a course?

Each of the 2,500+ lectures on MASSOLIT is arranged into a course. A course might focus on an individual text, an author, or a whole genre.

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Kingship

Macbeth

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Macbeth's Appeal: Then and Now

Macbeth

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11:41

Women

Macbeth

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Directors' Choices

Macbeth

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Search by exam specification

Every course is tagged to the specifications it supports.

AQA

AQA

GCSEEnglish Literature8702
A LevelLiterature A7712
A LevelLiterature B7717
A LevelLanguage and Literature7707
Edexcel

Edexcel

GCSEEnglish Literature1ET0
GCSEInternational4ET1
A LevelLiterature9ET0
A LevelLanguage and Literature9EL0
OCR

OCR

GCSEEnglish LiteratureJ352
A LevelLiteratureH472
A LevelLanguage and LiteratureH474
Cambridge International

Cambridge

IGCSEEnglish Literature0475
A LevelInternational9695
WJEC Eduqas

WJEC

GCSEEduqas (England)
GCSEWJEC (Wales)
A LevelEduqas
A LevelWJEC (Wales)
Oxford AQA

Oxford AQA

GCSEInternational9275
A LevelInternational9675
International Baccalaureate

IB

IB DPLanguage A: Literature

Meet our academics

Every lecture on MASSOLIT is designed and delivered by a university academic or a working writer.

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Prof. Marion Turner

University of Oxford

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Prof. John Mullan

UCL

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Prof. Ross Wilson

University of Cambridge

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Dr Sophie Duncan

University of Oxford

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Prof. Helen Smith

York University

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Prof. John McRae

Nottingham University

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Prof. Ania Loomba

University of Pennsylvania

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Dr Fred Parker

University of Cambridge

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Dr Clare Walker Gore

University of Cambridge

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Prof. Chloë Kitzinger

Rutgers University

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Dr Michael Pearce

Exeter University

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Kit de Waal

Author

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Daljit Nagra

Poet

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