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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
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‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello
The Oxford English Dictionary defines barbarism as ‘rudeness or unpolished condition of language’ as well as the ‘absence of culture’, further defining it as the opposite of civilisation.1 Both definitions of the word have been in use as early as the late sixteenth century. While Europeans during the Age of… Continue reading