English Resources (page 29)

[W]e are as separate from ourselves as other people (Adam Phillips).Discuss. The separation of the self, from the self and from others, is a preoccupation across Phillips w...

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PASTICHEJameson sees pastiche as a practice that arises from the "disappearance of the individual subject" and the "unavailability of the personal style". Postmod...

Performativity, Power Plays and the Postcolonial Body: applying Butler s consideration of materiality and identity to Kincaid, Cliff and Dangarembga s novels. You know, darling, ca...

Speaking Shakespeare: Complexities and Complicities in Controlling Community through ConversationThe Oxford English Dictionary contains two over-arching results defining the noun â...

Social Anxieties in Shakespeare s Imagined City SpacesAdam Hansen notes that it is due to the factors and conditions of London at the time of his writing that Shakespeare s pla...

But It s Not Shakespeare : (De)Constructing Aspirations of Authenticity, from Irving to Granville BarkerProductions of Shakespeare are regularly met with complaint against t...

As the title suggests, The Remains of the Day examines the last stretch of the protagonist s life. Time, and the opportunities life presents, are referenced through the seasons, tim...

Othello is a tragedy full of shock, bemusement, and peripeteia. In Iago, Shakespeare has created a character whose contempt for virtue results in all the main characters either dyi...

Writing is a complex task that requires a range of different skills. Whilst procedural skills, such as spelling, grammar, vocabulary and punctuation can be easily quantified, measured...

The article contains a mock essay written by one of my previous students. When I met him, he was scoring a 3 to 4 in his mock GSCE English language and literature exams.  Af...