Dr Laura Fish (Northumbria University) and author Julia Rochester talk about the novel
Click on the link below to listen to the 10 minute clip from Radio 4’s Women’s Hour
Category: Literature
Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos review – a state-of-the-world address
Performance poet, playwright, novelist, Ted Hughes prize winner and Mercury nominated artist Kate Tempest’s new album defies genre boundaries…
Read the review from The Observer below
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/09/kate-tempest-let-them-eat-chaos-review
A perfect storm: Margaret Atwood on rewriting Shakespeare’s Tempest
How do you update a play about a castaway sorcerer, a malevolent creature and an air spirit? Margaret Atwood on the prisoners, politicians and hackers who make up her modern day Tempest
Read the article below about Atwood found inspiration from Shakespeare’s ‘final’ play for her new novel Hag-Seed
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/24/margaret-atwood-rewriting-shakespeare-tempest-hagseed
A Streetcar Named Desire review – a superb and tragic spectacle
Click on the following link to read the first review of Maxine Peake in Streetcar at the Royal Exchange:
Relevant to all English Combined and Literature students!
Reader, I Married Him review – stories inspired by Jane Eyre
This anthology, edited by Tracy Chevalier, will enrich and complicate any future reading of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece
Read the review below
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/29/reader-i-married-him-tracy-chevalier-review
Celebrating Shakespeare – why bother?
As the 400th anniversary of his death approaches, why should we bother celebrating Shakespeare? After all, he was only a playwright. And we don’t take to the streets to whoop it up for Chaucer, Jonson or Bacon.
Read the article below to find out more
Happy Birthday Charlotte Bronte!
April 21st marks the 200th anniversary of the most prominent Bronte sister’s birth. Read all about how they plan to celebrate at Bronte Parsonage in Haworth
https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/254/charlottes-birthday-party-celebrating-charlotte/263
Jane Eyre is April’s Reading group book
Charlotte Brontë’s much-loved, much-hated masterpiece should generate some fascinating debate
As the bicentenary (biBontenary?) approaches on 21st April, The Guardian has named Jane Eyre as this month’s reading group book. Read the article below
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/apr/05/jane-eyre-charlotte-bronte-reading-group-book
How spring has blossomed in literature
Mistaken expectations, foolish illusions, dangerous liaisons … while spring is always keenly awaited in literature, its onset so often signifies trouble
Read all about the ways that writers have been inspired by this most literary of seasons
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/apr/02/how-spring-has-blossomed-in-literature
World Book Day 2016: 43 books to read before you die – our favourites
Perfect for anyone wondering what they should read next!
You can read the article here:
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