The little white attic

In a blog post from 2013 , Himadri (Argumentative Old Git) wrote:  “It is demonstrable that people who have grown up in very different cultu...

  Shakespeare in Swahililand is an interesting read—I don’t know a lot about Africa—and looks to me to be a good response to the foolish no...

By Claude Monet. Recently my friend Himadri asked, if I were a literary academic, which area of literature I would specialise in. Probably S...

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...