Category: Literature Essays + Analysis
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‘Fake news!’: Julius Caesar and the “alternative facts” of Shakespeare’s Rome
Friends, readers, countrymen – lend me your ears! In what follows I will attempt to link the tragedy of Julius Caesar to: a grammar school education and rhetorical devices, the death of Queen Elizabeth, the lives of a penniless troupe of actors, early modern medical theory, and tenuous references to Donald Trump’s “alternative facts”. Let’s…
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3-Minute Reads // Medieval Ghostbusters and The Gast of Gy
One of my favourite ghost stories that I came across while researching my undead-themed PhD thesis. Don’t expect too much in terms of in-depth analysis; this is all about the spooky thrills…! *insert thunder-clap here*
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(A Couple of Reasons Why) The “Hamlet” Bad Quarto is Fantastic and Deserves More Love
Critics are starting to come around to the idea that the “Bad Quarto” of “Hamlet” may have something worthwhile to offer after all – and it’s a good thing too!
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3-Minute Reads // “Give me your hand”: Lady Macbeth’s dying wish
LADY MACBETHHere’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh![…]Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s grave. DOCTOREven so? LADY MACBETHTo bed, to bed. There’s knocking at…
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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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