English Resources (page 64)

It's important to be able to recognise and analyse poetic devices when studying literature at any level. Dylan Thomas is my favourite poet, and he uses so many that I decided to take ...

There comes a point in everyone's life when you have to undergo the ritual that marks the first, fateful step on the road to becoming an adult. It's called 'writing an essay' and invo...

It is always a pleasure to meet people from new cultures and countries, however, when visitors come to London, it is almost essential for a tourist to be able to speak English. Unf...

. 'The poetess accepts that she must display characteristics associated with femininity, such as delicacy, modesty, charm, domesticity...[ she] typically presents a sanitized version ...

What does Tamburlaine`s speech tell us about the role of women in Marlowe`s work? Women in the oeuvre of Christopher Marlowe do not have a particularly significant role, nor are we ...

Byron's presentation and representation of 'mobility' in Don Juan The word 'mobility' is used only once in Don Juan, to describe Lady Adeline Amundeville, who features in canto...

"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?" In Agrippina's case the question should be 'who in the land is the most powerfu...

The New Zealand government announced controversially last year that Shakespeare was no longer relevant to students and that they would be removing his works from their school curricul...

Moll Flanders and Roxana are two novels by Daniel Defoe which deal with the subject of marriage. Although living in very different conditions, both women see the connection between me...

"The sympathy which the Victorian novel routinely extends to women who are downtrodden, stifled or oppressed is often accompanied by a disappointing reluctance on the part of the nove...