Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama

    1. The Spanish Tragedy: or, Hieronimo is Mad Again(e) by Thomas Kyd (1592/1602)  2nd year Themes: Grief, vengeance, justice, corruption, the state v the individual HIERONIMO: My son – and what’s a son? A thing begotWithin a pair of minutes, thereabout; A lump bred up in darkness, and doth serve To ballast these… Continue reading

    The Stage and Beyond
    Caryl Churchill, Light Shining on Buckinghamshire, The Merchant of Venice, The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd, Titus Andronicus

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: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

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