Wider Reading

Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady   The Portrait of a Lady was published in 1881, and is a realist novel. Literary realism is a mo...

John Donne   John Donne is a metaphysical poet (the name given to a diverse group of 17th century English poets whose work is signifi...

A Woman of no Importance     Brief Synopsis: A Woman of no Importance follows a group of upper class English people, satirising t...

A View From The Bridge - Arthur Miller   Brief Synopsis: Alfieri, a lawyer and the narrator, introduces the setting: Red Hook, a ...

A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams     Context: -During the end of WW2, when this play was being written, many writer...

The Glass Menagerie-Tennessee Williams   Context: For Williams, this is semi-autobiographical. He had an older sister called Ros...

  This Be The Worst They fuck you up, those lords and priests. They really mean to, and they do. They fill themselves with highbrow...

Carol Ann Duffy: The World's Wife Little Red Cap   At childhood’s end, the houses petered out into playing fields, the facto...

Equus- Peter Shaffer    Brief synopsis: Teenager Alan Strang, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds releas...