The little white attic

Did anyone else notice the ship motif in Bleak House ? It appears on the famous first page of the novel.  “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river,...

 1/  “"I had confident expectations that things would come round and be all square," says Mr. Jobling with some vagueness of expre...

As everyone probably notices the bird motif and the ink motif in the novel, I won’t write about them. Instead, I will write about some other...

Dickens’s detractors always say his characters are caricatures, not complex, multifaceted, and lifelike like Tolstoy’s or Jane Austen’s or G...

What can I possibly say about Troilus and Cressida , one of Shakespeare’s most difficult and least popular plays, especially when I’m readin...

The first time I read Twelfth Night was several years ago, at University of Oslo. Let’s see if this time I can see anything new.  1/ See th...

I’m going to start by mentioning the errors pointed out by Himadri (Argumentative Old Git) and partially corrected by Faber & Faber:  “...

I have been reading the brilliant 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro (now James S. Shapiro). One thing people g...