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Category: drama

Free Speech, Banned Books

22 April 2022
drama, literature, politics, prose

Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]

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The Challenging Drama of Harold Pinter

25 March 2022
drama, literary prizes
Harold Pinter

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter is a remarkable play. It is staged quite frequently, and I have seen it in […]

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Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink

4 February 2022
drama, politics, prose

This week, I was struck by this article in The Guardian, about the humble beginnings of a literary publisher. Back […]

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Maya Angelou Still Rising

21 January 2022
drama, language, poetry, Shakespeare
maya angelou quarter

Times, they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan. He’s not just a singer, remember, but the winner of the Nobel Prize […]

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Farewell to Antony Sher

17 December 2021
drama, poetry, prose, Shakespeare
Antony Sher

At last we near the end of the autumn term and head towards Christmas. I hope that Santa has been […]

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New Sonnets Win Prize

5 November 2021
drama, literary prizes, poetry, Shakespeare

‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.’ You might be familiar […]

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Wuthering to New Heights

22 October 2021
drama, prose, Romanticism

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is an extraordinary novel. Published when its author was 29 years old, it has become the […]

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New Fiction and Theatre

10 September 2021
drama, literary prizes, prose

There have been intriguing reports about two recently published novels. One of them is a dark fantasy. Piranesi is the […]

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A New Light On Mamet’s Oleanna

24 July 2021
drama, politics

Often when we are discussing literary texts, we explore different critical responses to them and we also consider the context […]

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Rehearsals, Performance and True Crime

25 June 2021
drama, prose, Shakespeare

I hope that many of you will have seen a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, whether that is live […]

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