The little white attic

I’m currently reading Robinson Crusoe , but still thinking about Gulliver’s Travels , especially Part 4.  Here’s something I’ve noticed.  “I...

Gulliver’s Travels is such a rich book. I’ve been thinking about Part 4—there are so many different ways of interpreting it. On the most ba...

One thing readers of Gulliver’s Travels must all notice is that the novel becomes darker and darker as the story progresses, especially in t...

My personal list, maybe idiosyncratic. Some are firm choices, some may be different tomorrow. - The 40s: The Great Dictator  (1940) Citizen ...

The left and the right both get on my nerves.  In The Telegraph’s article about the danger of Shakespeare’s birthplace getting “decolonised...

Lately I’ve been reading Gulliver’s Travels , another major novel of the 18th century, and enjoying it a lot.  The book is divided into four...

Me at Shakespeare’s Birthplace Museum in 2023.  On 16/3/2025, The Telegraph reported :  “William Shakespeare’s birthplace is being “decoloni...

Coriolanus (2024, dir. Lyndsey Turner and ft. David Oyelowo):  The entire production is excellent, and David Oyelowo has an electrifying pe...

1/ The more Shakespeare I watch, the more convinced I am that it’s essential to both read and watch Shakespeare.  Read, to savour the poetry...

  Othello is the Shakespeare play I have seen the most after King Lear : the 2019 production by Nigel Shawn Williams (with Michael Blake as...