Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Sam, this would be a great title for your memoir!”. Today, I want to share one of my favourite Renaissance dramas of all time….
Drama
Book Review: Venus In Fur by David Ives
Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty…
Book Review: The Alchemist
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King’s Men, it is generally considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. Deploying the…
Book Review: This Love by Dani Atkins
Sophie Winter lives in a self-imposed cocoon – she’s a single, thirty-one year old translator who works from home in her one bedroom flat. This isn’t really the life she…
Book Review: Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly known simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe. Based on German stories about the…
Lunacy in Literature (The Bell Jar, The Yellow Wallpaper and More)
As part of my Extended English Project, I chose to write about ‘lunacy in literature’ for my dissertation. This meant spending my summer scouring the internet for novels and articles…
Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere (Blog Tour)
Special thanks to Little, Brown for sending me a copy of their lead fiction title for 2018, Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, and inviting me to be a part of the…
Book Review: A Streetcar Named Desire
Insert obligatory ‘god bless English Lit for introducing me to the joy of young Marlon Brando’ comment here. That being said, Brando plays the swine that is Stanley Kowalski. Therefore,…
Book Review: A Boy Made of Blocks (Blog Tour)
This review is part of the blog tour for Keith Stuart’s A Boy Made of Blocks. Thank you to the team at Little, Brown Book Group for sending me a copy…