The little white attic

Having learnt that I read a bowdlerised translation of The Golden Ass (William Adlington), I got hold of the Penguin translation by E. J. Ke...

1/ I generally read classic literature in modern translations (for obvious reasons), so one fascinating thing about reading William Adlingto...

1/ Officially titled Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius but now mostly known as The Golden Ass  ( Asinus aureus ), this novel is interesting ...

1/ The Books of Kings immediately follow the Books of Samuel: as David is old and stricken in years, his son Adonijah assumes the throne; ho...

I suppose one day I will read the whole of the King James Bible, but at the moment I’m prioritising the parts that I think have had the most...

As the Book of Exodus is about the origin myth of the Israelites, it can be considered from the religious, historical, or even political per...

1/ Not only did I not grow up in a (culturally) Christian country, I grew up in Vietnam, a communist and thus anti-religious country—I only ...

1/ This is a retelling of Sophocles’s play but, you know what, I see Shakespeare’s stamp all over it.  “ALCANDER Methinks we stand on ruins;...

1/ The play is about Don Sebastian, the King of Portugal who has just been captured by Muley-Moluch, the Emperor of Barbary. In one plotline...

As I’m exploring Restoration drama, it’s inevitable that at some point I must get to Congreve, the most popular comic playwright of the peri...