By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul’: so begins Act 5 Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Othello, with Othello’s speech leading up to his killing of Desdemona. This is the final scene of the play; by the end of it, Othello and […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Aaron and the Golden Calf
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The story of Aaron building a golden calf for the Israelites to worship may strike us a strange episode in the history of the people of Israel, as that story is told in the Old Testament. But there are some interesting reasons why the […]
A Short Analysis of Constance’s ‘Grief Fills the Room up of My Absent Child’ Speech from King John
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Grief fills the room up of my absent child’: so begins perhaps the most celebrated and moving speech in all of King John, which is not exactly a Shakespeare play that’s replete with celebrated speeches. The play lurks somewhere in the attic of Shakespeare’s […]
A Summary and Analysis of Franz Kafka’s ‘A Country Doctor’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Country Doctor’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories by Franz Kafka (1883-1924). This short story, which Kafka wrote during the winter of 1916-17, tells of a country doctor who makes a visit to a nearby village to tend […]
A Short Analysis of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Reflections on Vers Libre’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Reflections on Vers Libre’ is a 1917 essay by T. S. Eliot. Perhaps surprisingly, the essay begins with Eliot claiming that vers libre doesn’t exist, for reasons that Eliot goes on to outline in the course of the essay. You can read some of […]