Essays

Why Must Rosalind Disguise Herself?

What freedoms does cross-dressing afford Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’?

Apr 9, 2024 •

In the Forest of Arden

How does Shakespeare use the pastoral in ‘As You Like It’?

Mar 9, 2024 •

An Anti-Freud Pleasure Economy

Reading Luce Irigaray's 'When the Goods Get Together'.

Jan 3, 2024 •

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Reading Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’.

Dec 16, 2023 •

Creative Destruction is Not an Oxymoron

Analysing PB Shelley's revolutionary poems.

Nov 18, 2023 •

Why Does Eve Eat the Forbidden Fruit?

How does Eve navigate the epic world of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost'?

Sep 23, 2023 •

Sisterhood and the Erotic

Reading Audre Lorde's ‘Zami: A New Spelling of My Name’.

Sep 22, 2023 •

This is a Photograph of Me

Reading Margaret Atwood’s poem.

Sep 21, 2023 •

The Great Game of Imperialism

Reading Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim'.

Sep 20, 2023 •

On Cats and Consumerism

Reading Thomas Gray's, 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat'.

Sep 19, 2023 •

Caste and Cosmopolitanism

Reading Sunjeev Sahota's 'The Year of the Runaways'.

Sep 17, 2023 •

Darkness, Degeneration, and Empire

Reading Emma Roberts' 'The Rajah's Obsequies'.

Sep 16, 2023 •

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