Drama and English Literature

Pursue your creative passions while gaining a professional skill set with our combined English and Drama degree.
- Explore the diversity of literature and drama to develop your own critical and creative work.

- Work beyond the university, with communities, internationally renowned playwrights and directors, theatre companies, venues, and local cultural projects.

- Your projects – your way – with our support: from performances and devising plays to essays, digital work and producing podcasts.

On this combined English and Drama degree, you’ll explore your creative and artistic passions in a way that ensures you’ll graduate with the practical and professional skills to support your future goals.

Your English Literature studies will expose you to a wide range of genres, periods and approaches, encouraging you to think differently about what literature can be, and how it might apply to current challenges and debates in society. Your Drama studies provide opportunities to develop your creative skills, to work as part of a theatre company and to develop your performance, writing and production skills.

By studying these subjects together, you’ll gain a deep appreciation of how language can be brought to life to inspire and change perspectives – whether on paper, on the stage or on screen. Your combined studies will improve your ability to analyse, communicate and collaborate, and help you to develop a broad, practical skill set that will benefit you in many career paths.