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1 day ago · The first two essays, Elizabeth Bloch's ‘As You Like It or As You Don’t: Shakespeare's Arden, Thomas More's Utopia, and their discontents’ and Selima Lejri's ‘“Moving grove”: Dionysian rites of passage in Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream’, discuss the forests in these plays as a site of utopian vision, a dialectic space between the ideal and the real, or as a ...
2 days ago · With increased literacy and the invention of the printing press, poetry founds its way onto paper and, latterly, screens. Gradually, poets had started to write to be read rather than to be heard. Perhaps there is now a swing of the pendulum back to verbal performance with the advent of slam poets, pub poets and festival performers.
3 days ago · George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. [6]
2 days ago · Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
4 days ago · The Pub, the Poet & the Pint. In Dublin they seem to be inseparable. Join professional actors for this jaunt around the pubs of Dublin and hear about the life and work of the city’s famous literary figures. This tour is a rough guide to the cultural, religious and political life of Dublin.
3 days ago · Today at 05:50. The Rose of Tralee International Festival, a cherished Irish tradition, returns in 2024 with a vibrant showcase of talent and heritage. This year's event brings together an ...