Free Speech, Banned Books
Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: drama
The Challenging Drama of Harold Pinter
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter is a remarkable play. It is staged quite frequently, and I have seen it in […]
Read more →Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink
This week, I was struck by this article in The Guardian, about the humble beginnings of a literary publisher. Back […]
Read more →Maya Angelou Still Rising
Times, they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan. He’s not just a singer, remember, but the winner of the Nobel Prize […]
Read more →Farewell to Antony Sher
At last we near the end of the autumn term and head towards Christmas. I hope that Santa has been […]
Read more →New Sonnets Win Prize
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.’ You might be familiar […]
Read more →Wuthering to New Heights
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is an extraordinary novel. Published when its author was 29 years old, it has become the […]
Read more →New Fiction and Theatre
There have been intriguing reports about two recently published novels. One of them is a dark fantasy. Piranesi is the […]
Read more →A New Light On Mamet’s Oleanna
Often when we are discussing literary texts, we explore different critical responses to them and we also consider the context […]
Read more →Rehearsals, Performance and True Crime
I hope that many of you will have seen a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, whether that is live […]
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