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Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone: A cornerstone in the development of crime fiction
David Stuart Davies looks at ‘The first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels’.
Not Your Average Halloween Read: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’
Fans of vintage horror will find that this short story holds its own against Edgar Allan Poe’s most terrifying tales. Stefania Ciocia has a closer look for us.
Villette re-imagined.
‘As the play got into its stride’, says Sally Minogue, ‘I began to see that it was indeed true to the central spirit of Villette, and especially true to Lucy Snowe’.
How Shelley broke new ground with Frankenstein
Not only in gothic story-telling, but also in the form of the novel – David Stuart Davies looks at her work.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A journey of laughter and tears
David Stuart Davies looks at this ever-popular comedy with a darker side.
Beyond The Three Musketeers: The life and times of Alexandre Dumas
David Stuart Davies describes how his novels remain a continuing monument to his brilliance as a storyteller
Cervantes – The Man of Madrid and Don Quixote
David Stuart Davies looks at a great comic novel that also functions as an historical one.
Discovering the pleasure of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Professor Cedric Watts examines one of the Bard’s most accessible and, in hindsight, contemporary plays.
How Kipling’s Jungle Book helped make the modern Disney
In the second part of his essay on how Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Book’ influenced the modern Disney, Parker Lancaster takes a look at anthropomorphism, CGI and the success of previous adaptations…