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This second article of the 101 series on A History of British Poetry will explore the Old English poetry of the 7th to the 11th century.

Fairy tales have a long history of being predominantly educational and they started way back even before the Shakespearean era when they...

This article examines Iago's identity in Shakespeare's Othello in relation to one of his most famous quotes 'I am not what I am.'

"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a key work to understand Victorian Horros' duality.

This first part of a 101 series on fantasy seeks to present how difficult it is to truly define fantasy and the fantastic.

This article aims at introducing the origins of British poetry from Celtics' oral tradition to Romans first written works.

First tankōbon volume of the Kuroshitsuji manga series. Yana Toboso, 2006 Hell hath no fury like… or so they say. Perhaps, Hell can hath...

Ann Radcliffe and The Mysteries of Udolpho are key to understand the Gothic genre and the complicated concept of the Female Gothic.

Western Literature 101 articles serve as one of the academic courses in the field of English Language and Literature.

Tolkien’s hobbits are the real heroes of Middle Earth. It is their very ordinariness that makes them extraordinary.

Foreword Ancient Greek Tragedy 101 series intends to deepen the reader’s knowledge of the Greek Tragedies rooted in sixth century B.C....

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley and how it fits into the Horror and Gothic genres.

Childhood is arguably the most important developmental stage in an individual’s life. The child is an easily influential person, as...

Figure 1 Orton, Razor Wit, and Poetic Eloquence After Joe Orton began his career when his radio play The Boy Hairdresser was accepted by...

The Importance of Doubt Foreword From its earliest beginnings in Greek Tragedy through its history to the modern day, drama has exerted a...

An exploration of the threat of violence in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and its implications.

Ghost Stories and Social Critique in "The Shadow in the Corner" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

"For there is no friend like a sister" Sisterhood and Sexual Liberation in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.

The purpose of this article is to follow a thread through a handful of poems by four Scottish poets. This thread is a mythical or...

Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto will begin one of the main themes in Horror Fiction: the haunted house.