By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Timon of Athens is perhaps the most easy to summarise in terms of its plot; certainly it’s up there in the top five of his plays with the simplest plot which can be summarised in just a few sentences. So […]
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‘The String Quartet’: A Summary of the Virginia Woolf Story
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The String Quartet’, which was published in Virginia Woolf’s short-story collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921, is one of her strongest evocations of music and its links to memory and imagination. You can read ‘The String Quartet’ here before proceeding to our summary of […]
‘Blue and Green’: A Summary of the Virginia Woolf Short Story
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Blue and Green’ is a pair of short sketches – each only one paragraph in length – which appeared in Virginia Woolf’s 1921 collection, Monday or Tuesday. These two sketches are less ‘stories’ in the traditional sense than impressionistic prose-poems; nevertheless, below we reproduce […]
‘The Monkey’s Paw’: A Short Summary of W. W. Jacobs’ Short Story
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) is a miniature classic of the horror genre. In just ten pages, Jacobs provides suspense, a building sense of menace, and real drama, as well as bringing in such themes as family tragedy and the problems […]
Macbeth: A Short Plot Summary of Shakespeare’s Play
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s shortest plays, so we’ll keep the ensuing plot summary fairly brief, too, summarising the main plot points and keeping an eye on how they all fit together. Some critics and editors believe that Macbeth, the play as we have […]