Making Renaissance Literature Matter Now: Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund discuss five practical strategies for pursuing justice in the classroom
Category: Pre 19th Century Literary Studies
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
Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton discuss, in conversation, how the volume ‘Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama’ came about.
Many Mullen discusses the work of Irish novels and novelists, anachronism and nineteenth century realism.
by Chris Townsend The Irish philosopher George Berkeley was not a contemporary of William Wordsworth — he died in 1753,…
By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke…
J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy – the happiness of being sad – through Grock the clown and Shakespeare’s tragic comedies.
By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the…
John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…