Aspects of Literature

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Mystery in A Passage to India, by E M Forster

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The mystery around which much of the plot of Forster’s “A Passage to India ” revolves is that of what actually happened in the Maraba...
Friday, 26 February 2016

Bowdlerising: a family's attempt to sanitise Shakespeare

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How a pre-Victorian family made the works of Shakespeare acceptable in polite society by producing a sanitised version that was far re...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

After Easter, a play by Anne Devlin

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“After Easter” is the final part of “The Belfast Trilogy”, a set of plays by the Northern Irish playwright Anne Devlin (born 1951). T...
Tuesday, 23 February 2016

The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The knight is one of only three Canterbury pilgrims (the others being the parson and the ploughman) whom Chaucer treats without a hin...
Friday, 19 February 2016

Sources used by Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer undoubtedly comprise the earliest work of literature in English of lasting merit. However,...
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