Shakespeare
Shakespeare Sunday is one conversation. This is the wider library. Essays, reflections, teaching resources, and longer explorations of Shakespeare’s plays, poetry, characters, and afterlives.
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From the Archives: 17.06.19
Filial disobedience arrives as suddenly as a dandelion on your lawn – but by the time you see the flower, the roots are long established.
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From The Archives: 03.06.18
Once you realise what ‘close-reading’ can do for you, it’s difficult to image NOT doing it. Here’s what I said about it in 2018.
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From The Archives: 25.05.19
Shylock’s fate in The Merchant of Venice, prompted some deep thoughts in 2019, during my Shakespeare read-through . How about in 2026?