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Rossetti's portrayal of the strength and power of women in 'Maude Clare' is particularly interesting considering that the prevailing view in the Victorian era was that women should be more submis...

Williams employs plastic theatre as a means of giving physical onstage presence to abstract concepts in order to better clarify for the audience their meaning and significance within 'A Streetcar Named De...

Relevant for both GCSE and A Level: Every student will have a different way of doing a close reading of a poem. What is important is that a student finds a style with which they are comfortable and confid...

Sonnet 23 depicts a love that paralyses. The lover is compared to an actor who forgot his lines due to his fear and nervousness and loses his mastery of his role, also known as his ‘part’, implying that t...

It could be argued that Iago’s schemes succeed, not because Othello is weak, but because they take such cruel advantage of a noble, easily manipulated man. It is not fair to blame Othello for his own desc...