by Annette Rubery | Jun 24, 2023 | Book review, Literature
Like many readers of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, I knew almost nothing about the poet before picking up the book apart from vague memories of learning about metaphysical poetry at school. The fact that Donne’s poems seem to be either sexual or...
by Annette Rubery | Mar 12, 2023 | Literature, Shakespeare
There’s a distinct whiff of testosterone in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Rome is a city of machismo, where men battle it out, where the defeated fall on their swords and where leaders jump into the “angry flood” of the Tiber to race their subjects (now who does that...
