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3-Minute Reads // “Exercises in ink”: Scattered identity in “The Waves”
In Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” the search for identity is fraught with challenges. For Louis, the quest to retain a sense of his true “self” becomes an exercise in pain. But perhaps the pain is a necessary step…
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Power, Privilege, and Toxic Masculinity in Naomi Alderman’s “The Power” (2016)
“Something’s happening. The blood is pounding in her ears. A prickling feeling is spreading along her back, over her shoulders, along her collarbone. It’s saying: you can do it. It’s saying: you’re strong.”
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A Post About That One Time the Country was Ruled by a Zombie Queen, or, Elizabeth’s BDE (Big Dead Energy)
How powerful a ruler was Queen Elizabeth I? Not even the inconvenience of being dead could prevent her from ordering people around. Or from exploding. In the month between her death and her funeral, the late Queen flaunted Big Dead Energy like no one else…
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Shakespeare, Schools, and Student Wellbeing: the “Shake-in-a-Day” Project
In this paper I discuss the ways in which Shakespearean performance can be used to promote student wellbeing in education. Originally presented at the BritGrad conference, June 2018.
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Teaching Shakespeare at Key Stage 4: Language, Structure, and Form
I didn’t know it at the time, but this essay marked a beginning for me: it was the first stage of a process of reflection, trial-and-error, mistakes and successes – a process that continues to this day.
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