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The life of the everyman in a single day in Dublin is the basic premise of James Joyce’s Ulysses, yet this is an oversimplification of the much deeper work that if you are not careful can quickly spiral down into a black hole of fruitless guesswork and analysis of what you are reading. Joyce’s gro...
I recently reread this book with the purpose of rewriting this review, however instead I wrote a blog post instead. This book is a collection of essays that explores some of the problems that arise from Shakespeare’s plays, though the conclusions of most of these essays tend to come down to the f...
"And though she be but little, she is fierce." - Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act 3, scene 2I didn't give this two stars because it was bad per se, but because it was sort of boring. I think this is a play I would much have preferred to watch live on stage instead of hassling through a book. U...
...Wow.I'm not sure quite what I can say about Gravity's Rainbow. I'm not sure I can even write a coherent plot synopsis. It's set in the Second World War - I did manage to work that much out. It follows a whole range of different characters as they cross the various blasted landscapes of WWII, all ...
This book does present interesting ideas and proposed solutions for some of the issues in Shakespeare’s plays. However, I have take issue with the statement about Lady Macbeth. What in nine hells is the phrase “only a woman" suppose to mean? Wonderful talks about Juliet’s age, about the time in J...
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