In 1899, the great Victorian theatre director Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a short silent film to promote his forthcoming stage production of William Shakespeare’s history play, The Life and Death of King John. This short piece of silent cinema included footage of King John’s dying moments, along with three other […]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses the importance of dwelling and houses in Forster’s classic novel E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End was published in 1910 and written in 1908-10. This can be seen as significant for several reasons. It places the novel in […]
‘Ovid in the Third Reich’ deals with a challenging topic, and presents several challenges to the reader. The poem was first published as the opening poem in Geoffrey Hill’s second collection, King Log (1968). Before proceeding to our analysis of the poem, you might want to read ‘Ovid in the […]