The little white attic

Today is meaningful for two reasons. One, it’s Shakespeare Day. Two, it’s 16 years since my mum and I moved to Norway (which means that I ha...

I read L’Avare ( The Miser ) and Le Bourgeois Geltilhomme (here translated as The Self-Made Gentleman ) in the translation by George Grave...

Sooner or later, I had to read France’s most important playwright, so here we go. The translation I read was by George Graveley.  1/ I will ...

Revenge tragedies were all the rage in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The Spanish Tragedy marks the beginning. ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore ...

Performed sometime between 1629 and 1633 and published in 1633, the play thus came out a while after Shakespeare’s death (1616) and the publ...

1/ This is another revenge play, first performed in 1606, and published in 1607. The authorship is disputed: it was long attributed to Cyril...

The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan play, generally accepted to have been written by Thomas Kyd, sometime betw...

I don’t have much to say about Robinson Crusoe . Probably won’t have much when I finish reading it either.  As I explore the 18th century, I...

(An image created by MidJourney that caused controversy a few years ago when winning a photography/ digital art award).  1/ I once saw a twe...

Left, right, everywhere we’re surrounded by philistines.  On the left are the philistines who see everyone and everything through the lens o...