A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A Comedy Where Gossip Does the Sword Work and Love Trips Over Its Own Feet Welcome to Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s festival of misunderstandings, accidental villainy, accidental romance, and accidental intelligence. This is the play where people fall in love by arguing, fall apart because someone coughed suspiciously in the bushes, and repair everything […]
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KING LEAR: HOW TO LOSE A KINGDOM AND YOUR SANITY IN FIVE EASY ACTS “Nothing will come of nothing.”Thus spoke a king who had everything — except common sense. At the ripe old age of eighty (or as modern HR departments might call it, “past retirement with extreme prejudice”), King Lear decided it was high
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Empire Writes Back—And the Center Can’t Handle It From The Professor’s Desk There was a time when literature came wearing a powdered wig and spoke only in the accents of empire. Its maps were colored red, its characters were explorers and missionaries, and its readers were taught to see the world through the monocle of
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From The Professor’s Desk The professor often wonders why meaning, that most cherished possession of readers and critics, behaves like a well-mannered ghost: present enough to be sensed, but never quite caught in full. Literature, once thought to be the house of meaning, turns out to be haunted by absence, difference, and instability. And the
The Literary Rollercoaster with No Center, Only Play From The Professor’s Desk The Age of Uncertainty Begins There was a time—let’s say, mid-20th century—when we believed texts had stable meanings. Words behaved, authors ruled their pages like monarchs, and critics arrived with a magnifying glass and a firm belief in objective interpretation. That time is
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(from the series: Literary Theory Explained) From The Professor’s Desk What if stories didn’t mean what they seemed to mean?What if literature wasn’t a mirror of reality or a confession of the author’s soul—but a kind of language machine, structured by rules we don’t even realize we’re following? Welcome to the sharp, angular, and brilliantly
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By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who’s fairly certain Orwell is haunting our routers in silent judgment) In the grand year of 1948, a man named George Orwell sat down to write a book not because he was paranoid, but because the world wasn’t paranoid enough. He switched the last two digits of the year and gifted
By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Believes Milton Probably Dreamed in Iambic Pentameter Meet the Man Who Out-Read His Eyeballs John Milton wasn’t born a poet—he was born a walking encyclopedia with insomnia. Imagine a student who: Read every book in sight (in Latin, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, probably Martian) Wrote essays for fun
By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The Scroll-Bearer of British Verse, Who Knows Will Was Extra Before Extra Existed The Curtain Rises on Stratford’s Favourite Overachiever Let’s get this straight: Shakespeare wasn’t just a playwright. He was the entire genre. He gave us murderous kings, cross-dressing lovers, mooning poets, ghost dads, and a fool who was
6. The Bard Was Basically a Theatre Kid: Shakespeare, Drama, and a Bit of Gossip Read More »