Lonely Londoners has a Woman Problem
A dramatisation of Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners has opened, to warm reviews, at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. As […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
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Experienced teacher of A Level English Literature. A Level Assessor for UK and international examination boards.
Thomas Hardy and Women
Ever since studying Tess of the d’Urbervilles at A Level, I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Thomas […]
Read more →The Ethics of Performance
An actor’s job is to pretend to be someone else. An audience applauds them for effacing themselves in order to […]
Read more →Streams of Consciousness
I have been re-reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway recently, enjoying the subtle but lively way in which the stream of […]
Read more →Words and their Meanings
This week the revered Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the latest words to be added to its lists, all of […]
Read more →Kureishi’s New Year
It’s the end of the year with the new one just around the corner. We may face that with different […]
Read more →Benjamin Zephaniah
It was saddening to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah’s untimely death last week. A dyslexic Rastafarian with limited formal education and […]
Read more →Kae Tempest and the Guts to Love
Kae Tempest’s Brand New Ancients, which takes ordinary people and sees their lives in the light of the ancient Greek […]
Read more →Delving into Dickens
The thing is with Dickens is that most of his books are very big. The other things is that most […]
Read more →Warning: Contains Trigger Warnings
Sensitivities about topics, events and language in texts have created controversies for as long as texts have been published. Books […]
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