The little white attic

I read both plays in the translations by Samuel Solomon, who used the Latin names (Andromache, Orestes, Cephisa, Berenice, Paulinus…) rather...

1/ Some time last year, I read The School for Wives (in Richard Wilbur’s translation). What I didn’t know was that the play was a scandal a...

1/ The Argonautica has a clear structure: the first half (Books 1 and 2) is about Jason and the Argonauts’ voyage to Colchis for the golden...

First, some context. Also known as Jason and the Argonauts , this is an epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius (or Apollonius of Rhodes) in...

Yesterday, coincidentally on the anniversary of Dickens’s death (9/6), I was finishing Dombey and Son . That took a while! But now I have fi...

A few days ago, I finally managed to visit Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. It was great.  This is where Jane Austen revise...

The other day, I tweeted about Tom Payne’s translation of The Art of Love : “Picked up this copy of “The Art of Love” but I had to quit afte...

1/ Published in 1594 (apparently written during a plague), The Rape of Lucrece was around the same time as Henry VI Part 1 (if we assume, a...

Recently my friend Himadri got ChatGPT to “improve” his sentences (as a joke), which turned out to be shite, so I tested ChatGPT with my blo...

I’m currently taking a break from the hellsite still known as Twitter, though I’m aware people have been arguing about this list . I don’t c...