Emily Collins, in her Splendid Isolation in the Lost Domaine, has done us the honour of sharing her course materials on Romeo & Juliet. These are fragmentary and incomplete, as are all things. She mentions this, in particular: “Remember, Shakespeare did not say: “A Rose by any other name would Continue Reading
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POTTER’S FIELD ; OR, WE KNOW WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED : HARRY POTTER AND THE HOLLOW CROWN
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THE POLITICS OF HOLDING THE DOOR
You’ve all heard it, haven’t you? How now, if you hold a door for a woman, you’re some kind of a “sexist”; how now, if you compliment a woman, or flirt with a woman, or tell a woman she’s looking sexy today, or just gently brush up against her breast, Continue Reading
Kings of Vanished Kingdoms
KINGS OF VANISHED KINGDOMS Guest post by Mark Fitzpatrick, December 2010 Flying home to Ireland, on Saint Stephen’s day, the 26th of December. The country has been covered with snow, temperatures plunging below zero. It covers the landscape, making all white, all redundant, eerie in disuse, like furniture under dust-sheets. Continue Reading