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This essay will critically analyse chapter fourteen of Waterland by Graham Swift and establish that it is in the style of a self-conscious lesson in history directed at the reader. In its form it will...
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This essay will consider whether the poetry and drama of the early modern period is more concerned with transgression or with order. In reaching a conclusion Shakespeares’s The Tempest and John Donne’s...
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Shakespearean comedy is concerned with desire and its satisfaction; characters yearn for something, this leads to frustration but eventually satisfaction achieved and a happy conclusion. Twelfth...
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This essay will analyse the way in which Act I scene I contributes to the effectiveness of Antony and Cleopatra as a Tragedy. In the play we see from the opening scene that the great soldier Antony has...
View ArticleAstrophel & Stella VI: A Sonnet Explicated
Titles are important when considering any text but are of particular importance when considering poetry. Stella is from the Latin word for star and Astrophel is derived from two Greek words: astro...
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