Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Foreigners and Foreignness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Dutch Church Libel (1593)

    In the chapter on foreigners in Keywords of Identity, Race and Human Mobility in Early Modern England, Nandini Das and others explain that in early modern England, the identity category of ‘foreigner’ was thought of in three ways: those with a place of origin outside of England, those spiritually estranged… Continue reading

    Past Essays, The Stage and Beyond
    Dutch Church Libel, Early Modern Literature, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)
  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)
  • Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974)
  • ‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)
  • Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter, division of HarperCollins, 2023)

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