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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...

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

The study of linguistics incorporates a number of aspects which are very closely related, yet distinctive from one another. Some of the aspects we explore most often include phone...

The rhizome is an antigenealogy. ... The rhizome operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus). Discuss how the ...

Depending on the type of text, students will need to use a variety of reading subskills. Here are some activities you can use to develop the different subskills.A: Scan ReadingWhen we...