I have a rather sordid confession to make. I like Ted Hughes. I really really really like Ted Hughes. My mum read The Iron Giant to me when I was younger, and ever since I have absolutely loved everything he has ever done. I have just ordered his collected works from Amazon, a massive brick [...]

Continued from PART 1 Johnson: In terms of intelligence, Benjamin Johnson is your playwright. The son of a brick maker, he excelled to have one of the finest educations available, but he never let anyone forget about it. If he were a rock star I’d consider Johnson to be a more preachy version of Billy [...]

It’s been a while since my last review and even longer since my last article, but less than 24 hours after my English exam on Renaissance drama I felt I might as well put that knowledge to good use. Today I’m going to guide you through the exciting world of the English stage in the [...]

In the UK, recently published league tables show that one in ten schools have failed to meet the Government’s target when it comes to pupils’ literacy levels. Don’t worry, dear reader. This article isn’t about UK politics, or a rant about how the Government ought to be doing more for school education. No, instead I’ll [...]

As an undergraduate studying English, one thing I can count on each and every term is the fact that I’m going to have a reading list as long as my arm. Being a student whose money situation can be summed up with the words ‘never enough’, having to buy 10-20 brand new books per term [...]