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Cedric Watts looks at Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Cedric Watts restores a lost character to Shakespeare’s most often performed comedy.
Sally Minogue looks at Walt Whitman
On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue looks at Presidents, Poetry, and Walt Whitman.
David Stuart Davies looks at The Great Gatsby
David Stuart Davies looks at what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century
Jane Austen and the great outdoors
Sally Minogue considers the risks Austen’s heroines take when they venture outside.
Sally Minogue looks at Far From The Madding Crowd
Sally Minogue sets the BBC premier of the 2015 film adaptation alongside its 1967 predecessor.
David Stuart Davies looks at Rob Roy
David Stuart Davies looks at the most popular of Sir Walter Scott’s novels
H. G. Wells and the Natural World
Emily Alder looks at the his early scientific romances and the mastery of nature
1967 – The Summer Of Love
We have a nostalgic wallow in the events of fifty years ago
Jane Austen 200
On the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, Sally Minogue pays tribute to her final novel, ‘Persuasion’.