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Category: Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Language and Literature

Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Five Practical Strategies for Pursuing Justice in the Classroom

posted by Kirsty Crosbie November 25, 20197 min read100 Views

Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund discuss five practical strategies for pursuing justice in the classroom

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre
Language and Literature

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre

posted by Carla Hepburn November 14, 20196 min read276 Views

Lisa Starks and the contributors discuss their interest in Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre.

Language and Literature

Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama: A conversation between Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton

posted by Carla Hepburn August 20, 20198 min read340 Views

Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton discuss, in conversation, how the volume ‘Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama’ came about.

Language and Literature

The Case for the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel

posted by Carla Hepburn August 15, 20194 min read430 Views

Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.

Language and Literature

Wordsworth’s Reading of George Berkeley

posted by Rebecca Wojturska August 12, 20197 min read475 Views

by Chris Townsend The Irish philosopher George Berkeley was not a contemporary of William Wordsworth — he died in 1753,…

History

A perfect epitome: David Randall pens a sonnet for each of his new books

posted by Carla Hepburn February 26, 20192 min read703 Views

By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke…

Language and Literature

The happiness of being sad

posted by Carla Hepburn February 7, 20196 min read958 Views

J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy – the happiness of being sad – through Grock the clown and Shakespeare’s tragic comedies.

Language and Literature

Top 5 Representations of the Weather in Shakespeare’s plays

posted by Carla Hepburn December 10, 20184 min read1518 Views

By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the…

Cultural History

John Pollock Picks the Lock of the Mysterious ‘Shakespeare Box’

posted by Rebecca Wojturska October 15, 20187 min read1344 Views

John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…

Language and Literature

Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion

posted by Carla Hepburn July 3, 20185 min read1465 Views

Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…

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